:54:02
Why weren't you up there?
:54:07
I got no use for burials.
:54:14
Oh, coffee's more important, huh?
:54:21
- You don't think I care he's dead?
- Why didn't you come up?
:54:24
- Sorry for that Jap?
- Shut up! I don't take that from nobody!
:54:35
I'm surprised at you guys, all of you.
:54:39
You ought to have sense enough
not to get such dumb ideas!
:54:46
- I told you, I had my reasons.
- Bilge!
:55:00
Look.
:55:02
I had an uncle lived
in the old country, see.
:55:05
A real high-class guy, not like me.
:55:08
You know what he was?
:55:09
He was a teacher of philosophy.
:55:12
To be that in Greece,
the home of philosophy...
:55:14
...you got to be A-number-one smart,
and that was my uncle.
:55:18
So they killed him, them Nazis.
:55:20
They stood him up against the wall.
You know why?
:55:22
Because he had brains.
:55:24
And everybody's got to be their slave.
Them that won't, like my uncle, they kill.
:55:32
My old man was no good.
:55:34
He was a boozer.
He died in bed having the D.T.'s.
:55:38
But my uncle,
a man with education and charity...
:55:42
...who used to send my ma
what to eat with.
:55:44
Him, they stood up against the wall.
And that sticks in here with me.
:55:48
The difference between
them and us...
:55:50
...is, with us even the no-good
gets a chance to die in his own bed.
:55:55
So I don't forget my uncle.
:55:58
An American flier gets killed,
I think of my uncle.