:02:00
# If you would come to me soon
:02:08
# Until you will
:02:13
# How still my heart
:02:18
# How high the moon...
:02:24
I don't think much about the big war any
more, the one called "the second one"...
:02:28
..because the small wars that came after it
seem bigger now than the big war was.
:02:33
Most people today look back at
the big one with sort of fond memories.
:02:37
It was, in a sense, an OK war.
:02:39
We knew why we were fighting it and felt
pretty proud of ourselves for being in it.
:02:44
We liked the songs,
we liked the uniforms,...
:02:47
.. we liked the giris
and we liked that everyone liked us.
:02:50
So, looking back,
it was one ofyour better wars,...
:02:53
..except ifyou were a year out of high
school heading south in a troop train,...
:02:57
..knowing in two months you'd be
in a mudhole fighting for your life.
:03:08
We were in a filthy train heading
for basic training in Biloxi, Mississippi,...
:03:12
..and on the entire trip
in the train nobody washed.
:03:15
We were preparing
to fight Germany andJapan,...
:03:18
..but instead we were stinking up America.
:03:40
- Hey, what the hell's with you?
- You talkin' to me, garbage face?
:03:43
- Yeah, pisshead!
- Who you callin' pisshead, jerk-off?
:03:46
Knock it off, shit brains!
:03:50
Up your keister
with a meat hook, Wykowski.
:03:54
It was my fifth day in the army,
and so far I hated everyone.