1:33:00
This is a military matter, Miss Madriaga,
nothing to do with you.
1:33:03
If I were not here tonight, major,
this would not have happened.
1:33:08
Am I allowed to speak?
1:33:10
Why, certainly. Yes.
1:33:17
Ladies and gentlemen...
1:33:20
...it seems like the only embarrassment
here tonight is my presence.
1:33:25
If the truth will quiet
your unspoken questions...
1:33:28
...I give it gladly.
1:33:30
For five years I was the woman
of the Comanche, Stone Calf.
1:33:35
He treated me like a wife.
1:33:38
The work was hard,
the scoldings frequent...
1:33:42
...and occasionally he beat me.
1:33:46
I did not bear him any children.
1:33:50
I know that many of you regard me
as a degraded woman.
1:33:55
Degraded by the touch
of a savage Comanche...
1:33:58
...by having had to live
as one of them.
1:34:00
You said l... Why did I not kill myself?
1:34:05
Why I did not...?
1:34:07
- Why, I...?
- Go on. Go on, you're doing fine.
1:34:09
- I can't!
- Well, I sure as hell can.
1:34:14
She didn't kill herself
because her religion forbids it.
1:34:19
You know, sometimes it takes more
courage to live than it does to die.
1:34:23
You'd agree with that,
wouldn't you, major?
1:34:25
You know, I don't think
any of you folks in this room...
1:34:28
...have ever been
to a Comanche camp.
1:34:30
Have you, major?
1:34:32
- Well...
- No. No.
1:34:34
I have. I usually limit my visits
to three days.
1:34:38
Three days.
That's about 45 working hours...
1:34:41
...for a woman in one of those camps.
1:34:42
You know, a Comanche, he don't know
when Sunday comes.
1:34:46
And cooking's sort of the recreation
for the women, they...
1:34:50
And then, in their spare time, they
chew the glue out of buffalo hides...
1:34:54
...so that their man can have
a nice soft pair of moccasins.
1:34:56
You can judge for yourself
what kind of life it is...
1:34:59
...by the number of survivors
we brought back.