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:46:14
- The news is a little tough.
- Tough?

:46:18
We're licked, Joe.
:46:19
Licked? When is a nation licked?
:46:22
Military textbooks say a war is over
when the objectives are taken.

:46:26
The United States
fought your grandfather.

:46:29
- We found the textbooks were wrong.
- Were they?

:46:32
You fought off the Spaniards
for over 300 years...

:46:34
Then the American came.
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And a handful of revolutionaries,
calling themselves the Katipunan...

:46:39
took everything we could throw at them.
:46:41
Fought us to a standstill
with bolos and clubs.

:46:43
Now the Jap is here.
:46:45
What would've happened
if we hadn't fought the Spaniard...

:46:48
if my grandfather
hadn't called out the Katipunan?

:46:51
- You'd be slaves.
- What are we now?

:46:55
I've been doing a lot of thinking
these last few days.

:46:58
I wondered why you saved me
out of all those thousands of prisoners.

:47:02
- You picked the wrong guy.
- I picked Andrés Bonifacio.

:47:05
I know you did. Now you expect him
to spread the word that Bonifacio's back.

:47:09
To arms, Filipinos.
Remember the Katipunan.

:47:11
Kill the Japs, even if it means
you'll be killed 10-to-1, 20-for-1.

:47:15
When there are no more men,
then women and children, uselessly.

:47:18
- Uselessly?
- You know that alone we're helpless.

:47:21
Where are all those American warships
we were promised?

:47:23
Where are those American guns
and planes?

:47:25
Why didn't they come
to Bataan and Corregidor?

:47:27
I don't know.
:47:28
- Can you promise they'll come back?
- I can't.

:47:30
Now you want me to urge them on
to more slaughter!

:47:33
It's easy for you. They're not your people.
:47:37
I don't mean that, Joe.
:47:39
I know you're a better Filipino than I am.
:47:43
Maybe you should've left me prisoner.
:47:46
It's just that we've taken too much
these last few months.

:47:48
Sure.
:47:50
A guy can only take so much,
then he loses something.

:47:53
I know.
:47:55
I've seen too much.
:47:58
We really don't know whether
the Americans are coming back or not.


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