1:46:00
I told Doc I believed
in nothing but 7 guys.
1:46:04
Now one's blind.
4 are dead.
1:46:07
And the rest of us
are gonna get it, too.
1:46:10
TheJaps have got
the right idea...
1:46:14
kill yourself.
1:46:17
His last words
to me were...
1:46:19
""I put down on paper
something I've been
1:46:21
""trying to tell
the lieutenant.
1:46:22
""It ain't finished, but
will you take a look at it?
1:46:25
Maybe fix it up?
I mean, being a writer...""
1:46:27
I tried. It didn't
need any fixing.
1:46:29
Tear it up.
I don't want to hear it.
1:46:31
Well, you're
gonna hear it
1:46:33
whether you want to
or not, Lieutenant.
1:46:39
From pharmacist's mate
second class
1:46:41
C.E "" Doc"" Jones
to Lieutenant Anderson.
1:46:44
Sir...
1:46:46
I ask the lieutenant's
permission
1:46:48
to read this to the men
of our platoon.
1:47:37
Doc wrote this.
Wanted you men to hear it.
1:47:42
""We all ask ourselves
the question
1:47:44
""why it is that some of us
are killed while others remain.
1:47:47
""The only answer is our faith
1:47:49
""in the wisdom
of the supreme being.
1:47:52
""If he has chosen us to live,
there must be a reason.
1:47:56
""I've tried to reckon out why.
1:47:58
"" Perhaps he has saved us because
we are needed as witnesses