:09:01
The rifle our snipers used.
:09:04
They called it the weapon of the silent death.
:09:07
I wish I could remember that phrase
in Chinese. It was rather beautiful.
:09:11
In battle, sir,
how do you keep from being scared?
:09:17
You don't. My God, was I scared!
:09:20
I must have lost about 20 pounds,
all of it brown!
:09:24
But fear has a way
of providing you with a little bonus.
:09:29
It gives you... the wolf.
:09:36
The wolf?
:09:39
It's a quotation from Theodore Roosevelt.
Let me see.
:09:43
"All men who have felt the power
of the joy of battle
:09:48
know what it's like
when the wolf rises in the heart."
:09:54
He knew and I know
that man was meant to be a warrior.
:09:59
We're all sons of our Viking fathers.
:10:04
Try to eat a little something,
just to keep up appearances.
:10:07
Otherwise I'll get an earache from Mrs Malloy.
:10:10
It's delicious, sir.
:10:12
I don't imagine I had much appetite
when I was appointed cadet major.
:10:16
My God. Can't be 45 years ago.
Nobody's that old.
:10:22
Wasn't General Black commander then, sir?
:10:24
- General Black?
- Yes. Yes, General Black.
:10:27
We cadets used to say
that his name described his heart.
:10:32
But we respected the hell out of him.
He went the whole nine yards.
:10:35
It didn't matter whether it was war
or growing roses or making men.
:10:41
You know that picture of him
in the admin building?
:10:43
When I was a plebe
it used to scare me walking under it.
:10:46
That's why they hung it there.
:10:48
The truth is you would have loved him
like a father. I know I did.
:10:52
Speaking of fathers, Mr Moreland,
is your dad still at Fort Benning?
:10:56
No, sir, he's at Fort Polk now.
:10:59
Well, a good top sergeant
is worth his weight in gold.