1:40:01
"I'm going to belt him
in his big fat stern sheets."
1:40:03
He's alive.
1:40:05
The first dead man
on Omaha Beach is alive.
1:40:10
Boy, that's great.
1:40:12
200 newspapers in the US alone,
the front cover of Life magazine...
1:40:15
every newsreel in the world,
and he's alive.
1:40:17
- What's he mad at you for?
- Not only is he alive, he's a coward.
1:40:21
We had a nice dead hero.
Now we got a lousy live coward.
1:40:23
- What's wrong?
- This better not be a gag!
1:40:25
It's no gag.
1:40:28
Admiral!
1:40:31
Sir, he's alive, damn it.
1:40:33
Alive? Madison?
1:40:36
Yes, sir.
1:40:37
In a relocation center in Southampton
waiting to be released right now, sir.
1:40:41
Thank God.
1:40:43
That's wonderful, Bus. Wonderful!
1:40:48
Now we can bring your
first man on Omaha Beach...
1:40:52
right into Room 610
of the Senate office building.
1:40:57
Sir?
1:40:58
I want Madison flown to Washington
on the first plane out of Southampton.
1:41:01
I want him flown
to Washington tomorrow.
1:41:04
We're going to give Charlie a parade...
1:41:06
right down Pennsylvania Avenue...
1:41:08
and to the front lawn of the White House...
1:41:10
where the President himself
will decorate Charlie with a Navy Cross.
1:41:15
I'm not so sure we should involve
the President in this, sir.
1:41:18
The President's an old Navy man.
1:41:20
He's sympathetic to
our position throughout.
1:41:22
Yes, sir, but I just don't think
we should go that big.
1:41:25
Big?
1:41:27
We're going to make a brass-band hero
out of Charlie...
1:41:31
using every coarse theatricality...
1:41:33
the public relations office
is overpaid to think up.
1:41:37
When I walk into that Senate office
hearing on Monday or Tuesday...
1:41:41
I'll smile my crisp military smile
at all those senators...
1:41:45
and then, in a perfunctory way,
I'll introduce my two aides:
1:41:49
Capt. Ellender here, my technical advisor...
1:41:52
and Lt. Cmdr. Charles. E. Madison.
1:41:55
Gentlemen, the first American
on Omaha Beach. A sailor.