Here we go once more. Let´s test your Vietnam War Movie knowledge. This time I tried to find lesser known movies. Not all high quality, I agree. However one of them is a real insider´s tip. Here is your list in random order: Tigerland, Coming Home, Rambo First Blood, Green Berets, The Boys in Company C, Off Limits. The solution, as always, just below the movie.
“The reason why I’m here is because a buddy of mine who’d been in ‘Nam took his own life today. This is kind of a funeral service. And I’m here because I’m trying to tell people, man, if we want to commit suicide, we have plenty of reasons to do it right here at home. We don’t have to go to Vietnam to find reasons to kill ourselves. I just don’t think we should be over there.”
“It’s strange that we’ve never read of this in the newspapers.”
“Well… that’s newspapers for you, ma’am. You could fill volumes with what you don’t read in them.”
“You’re floatin’ in a big sea of shit and instead of just stayin’ in the boat, no, you reach out and you pick up this one little turd and you say “This turd, well THIS turd pisses me off. I’m gonna do somethin’ about THIS turd!”
“Hey goddamnit! You with the pretty face! What the hell are you spitting on the ground for, what is that shit in your mouth?”
“Chewing tobacco sir.”
“Its what?”
“Chewing tobacco sir!”
“What the hell are you chewing tobacco for!”
“I chew when I play baseball sir!”
“Does this look like a baseball stadium to you!”
“No Sir it doesn’t.”
“Then what the hell are you chewing tobacco for? Did you get on the wrong fucking train, or did they draft you!”
“I enlisted Sir!”
“You did what?”
“I enlisted in the Marines Sir!”
“What the hell would you do a crazy thing like that for?”
“…..”
“Answer me goddamn it!”
“I want to fight for my country sir.”
“Fucking TURD!”
“Are you telling me that 200 of our men against your boy is a no-win situation for us?”
“You send that many, don’t forget one thing.”
“What?”
“A good supply of body bags.”
“If I told you there was a bunch of people around here who could get us to Mexico, away from the war, would you go?”
“No… no I wouldn’t. I enlisted, so there is a place for me… and if I don’t go, somebody is gonna take that place. And if they die, they’re dying for me.”