Sands of Iwo Jima Page #2

Left foot close in there.

Look alive!

Choynski, you're all left feet!

Choynski! What do you think

you're doing?

- Running the bayonet course, sir.

- Not in this league.

Yes, sir.

Your men are pretty ragged, Stryker.

Yes, sir.

That ought to take some starch

out of Stryker. His boys didn't do so well.

Hanging him up between those poles,

we'd do a lot better.

Choynski!

OK, so I'm left-handed.

- On guard. Give me your rifle.

- What is this?

You can't learn the easy way, you'll learn

the hard way. Make a thrust.

- Without a scabbard?

- You heard me.

- You mean this way?

- Yeah, like this!

You get the idea? Corpsman!

All right, saddle up.

We'll do it again. Pick it up.

You're the only unkissable guy in camp.

This thing hurts. It ain't funny. No dame's

going to come near a mouth like this.

Don't worry, I got the scoop.

No liberty for three months. You got time.

- Three months? How did you get that?

- I got spies everywhere.

They ought to throw the book at Stryker

for doing this.

They won't. They'll give him a citation

for teaching us to be good marines.

Choynski!

They tell me you're going to live.

You were lucky today.

Someone had been instructing you that

didn't like you, you might not have been.

You better put in a little homework

on that bayonet course.

Somebody who didn't like me? I wonder

what he does to the guys he hates.

365 days in a year and

I gotta pick this one to nick myself!

You need a blow torch on your stubble.

Look who's putting out the scuttlebutt.

No liberty, he says!

Somebody made a mistake.

You got no kick coming.

You have, so don't go turning your back.

Will we take Hollywood

with them physiques!

- First Platoon!

- That's for me!

- Here, Wright, any mail for Stryker?

- No.

It's going to be rugged again tonight.

He won't solve his problems

with whiskey.

What would you do

if your wife left with your kid?

- After five years I'd forget it.

- Stryker's not much on forgetting.

- Sorry, no letter for you.

- I know it.

You know ten-year-olds. There could be

a thousand reasons why he didn't write.

- A million.

- Cut it out.

- Cut what out?

- Brushing me. The kid's all right.

- Maybe Mary influenced him not to.

- That she wouldn't do.

Of course not.

Stryker, you're a very unusual character.

- Can this be love?

- You know what I mean.

A lot of guys wouldn't see that a woman

needs a husband who's not always away.

A woman wants a home and a guy

to come in and out on time every day.

- You can tell me to shut up.

- If you can't talk to me, who can?

- Don't do it, just for once, don't do it.

- Do what?

Don't start out to get blind, staggering,

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