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1:18:00
...that wanted to be Rough Riders.
1:18:04
Bakers and barbers.
Congressmen and cattlemen.

1:18:09
Ballplayers, farmers, reporters, cowboys.
1:18:19
No, we didn't rough ride up that hill...
1:18:22
...'cause we didn't have any horses.
1:18:26
We didn't charge up there, either.
1:18:30
We crawled up there on our scared bellies.
1:18:36
There was only one horse and one rider.
1:18:39
That was Colonel Teddy.
1:18:43
He went charging up that damn hill.
1:18:45
They shot his glasses off.
He put on another pair.

1:18:48
They nicked him in the elbow.
And he said, "Follow me!"

1:18:52
And we did,
'cause we were too damn ashamed not to.

1:19:06
After the Hill, came the church.
1:19:10
There was a French 75 out front.
1:19:14
Every window had a rifle sticking out of it.
There was a Gatling gun in the bell tower.

1:19:20
We could have called the artillery boys in
to blow it to pieces...

1:19:26
...but outside, along the walls...
1:19:29
...they'd tied all these people up.
Roped them together, hogtied them.

1:19:35
Looked like a bunch of sandbags.
1:19:40
Women and children, nuns and prisoners.
1:19:47
My Paula among them.
1:19:52
Neither me nor Luke nor anybody else
knew what to do.

1:19:57
Inside the church, they knew what to do.
They opened up on us and we fell back.


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