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on this ship are slack.
The home front is awash
in saboteurs and provocateurs.
Odd those words
sound French, what?
Allies and all.
Be that as it may, our immediate
concern is recruitment.
Minimum age 18. Infantry,
Service and Medical Corps:
...minimum height 5 foot 3 inches,
chest 33 and one half inches.
Gunners - Carmichael,
remove this.
Ah, yes sir!
Capital asset, Carmichael.
Gunners:
minimum height5 foot 7 inches,
- ... chest 34 and one half inches
give or take, you understand.
Preference given
to unmarried men.
The blind and the deaf
are to be avoided,
...and asthmatics are
strictly ne touche pas,
...given the problems
associated with gas.
And on that note,
may I say, in confidence...
I have seen acts
of depravity, Dunne.
Kroonstad.
Human depravity.
But gas? Even the Boer
would not sink so low.
We use gas, sir.
Of course we do.
Cut from the same cloth,
you and I.
A rarefying experience, combat.
Something Carmichael
will never encounter.
Blind as a bat,
feet like a fried egg.
- Isn't that right, Carmichael?
- More than right, sir.
You saw action
in South Africa, sir?
I've studied your dossier, Sergeant.
But you can rest easy.
I have my eye on you.
Ladies and gentlemen,
I present to you...
...a Distinguished Conduct Medal
winner,
...a proud member of Calgary's
own 10th Battalion,
...Second Brigade,
First Canadian Division.
Please rise
- I thought he'd be bigger.
- In what sense?
- In the sense that he'd be bigger.
- Please, please.
You're embarrassing
the good sergeant.
Would all of those women who are
present please resume your seats?
Thank you.
And all those men
too old to serve,
...would you also
resume your seats?
And all the boys who are
not yet of age to serve,
...would you take
your seats as well?
And now, I ask you
to look at the men...
...and explain to Sergeant Dunne...
...why they are not doing
their part for their King,
...their country and their God!
Kamerad.
Eyes wide open.
Next.
- Name?
- David Mann.
What's your marital status, David?
- Single.
- And you're of legal age?
- Look, I applied before.
- Yeah, I see that.
And according to this form,
...you were rejected
because you have asthma.
Do you now have medical
clearance on that asthma?
I wouldn't be here, would I?
And this isn't Germany.
I don't carry documents with me.
You're in uniform,
but you aren't at the front.
- You have anything to document that?
- As a matter of fact I do.
They diagnosed me as neurasthenic,
which means 'shell shock,'
...which means
I'm mentally incompetent,
...and this is the paper
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