A Bright Shining Lie
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:05:26
I brought you some flowers.
:05:28
- What's to celebrate?
- I got it. I got it.

:05:32
The Pentagon?
:05:34
Vietnam!
:05:41
Vietnam?
Well, what happened to Washington?

:05:45
Mary, don't you see?
:05:46
I'm going to war.
You know what happens in a war?

:05:49
Guys like me get promoted.
Now I can fight my way to the top.

:05:53
We are going to Washington...
:05:57
but I'm going as a soldier,
not a goddamn clerk.

:06:03
Wait, John.
You kind of smell like perfume.

:06:06
Honey, it's the flowers.
:06:08
Baby, this is the chance
we've been waiting for.

:06:12
This is it.
:06:16
n"Saigon, March 23rd, 1962"
:06:22
Three sacks a pair.
Yeah!

:06:25
Enlisted men over here!
:06:27
- Tell them to hustle!
- Enlisted men over here.

:06:29
Going to Saigon,
here in the truck.

:06:31
Right over there, sir.
:06:33
- Morning, sir.
- Vann, John P., Lieutenant Colonel.

:06:36
Colonel Vann.
I don't have you on manifest, sir.

:06:39
I was supposed to be
on yesterday's flight.

:06:42
- That flight crashed, sir.
- Well, I'm glad I missed it.

:06:48
Take that jeep there.
:06:51
- Steve Burnett, the Times.
- Go ahead.

:06:53
Hey, you're a lucky man.
:06:56
You should be dead.
:06:58
I should've been dead long before
yesterday. What's your name?


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