1:37:02
She said "I know you'll find
another girl some day, Gene,...
1:37:05
..but you"Il never forget me because
we"Il always be each other's first love. "
1:37:10
Long after the war I ran into Daisy
in New York. She still looked great.
1:37:14
She married a doctor from New Orleans.
1:37:16
Her name is now Daisy Horowitz.
1:37:19
Ah, well, Biloxi was beautiful.
1:37:23
We were going to the Battle of the Pacific
and there was no one who wasn't scared.
1:37:27
Then they dropped a bomb on Hiroshima
and six days later the war was over.
1:37:33
So when you get down to it the only action
we ever saw was up in Rowena's place.
1:37:38
Sure, we were glad
our lives were spared,...
1:37:40
..but the guys who came before us and
the ones who didn't make it back home...
1:37:44
..haunted me for the rest of my life.
1:37:49
Roy Selridge decided
to make the army his career,...
1:37:52
..and 18 years later
he was still a buck private.
1:37:55
I guess he never really did hit his peak.
1:37:58
Joseph Wykowski became a high-school
football coach in Albany, New York.
1:38:02
He's married with six kids,
weighs 280 pounds and has an ulcer.
1:38:07
He's on a low-fat cottage cheese diet.
1:38:11
Don Carney became a school teacher and
he's someone the kids can really count on.
1:38:16
He never got married, and
he enjoys singing in his church choir.
1:38:21
Epstein became a lawyer and eventually
the District Attorney of Brooklyn.
1:38:26
The Mafia calls him
"The most feared man in New York. "
1:38:31
As for me, I finally found the perfect girl, I
got married and had two great daughters.
1:38:37
I became a writer. I wrote a few plays and
ljust finished one called "Biloxi Blues".
1:38:41
Everything in it is true, except Rowena
never gave me a second one for free.
1:38:46
Maybe l"Il leave that out
if they ever make it into a movie.
1:38:51
As I look back now, a lot ofyears later,...
1:38:55
..l realise my time in the army
was the happiest time of my life.
1:38:59
God knows not because I liked the army,...