Sands of Iwo Jima Page #3

stinking, falling down drunk.

Nobody starts out to get blind,

staggering, stinking, falling down drunk.

Some do. Why not leave

half your dough with me?

You got an old maid's failings. You worry.

Don't try to follow me tonight or I'll put

a dent in that ugly head of yours.

- Ready?

- Just a minute.

- What's up?

- Nothing.

Benny didn't strip his M1 fast enough

for Stryker, so he turned him in.

They cancelled his liberty.

Perhaps our sergeant hasn't got a heart

of gold after all, but he certainly is...

You talk too much. You think I restricted

Flynn for my own amusement?

The punishment's unreasonable,

to cancel his liberty for a minor mistake.

I'm gonna tell you something, Conway.

I'm gonna tell all of you.

I'm gonna make it simple

so you'll all understand it.

They handed me you guys as a present,

a regular Easter basket.

They told me to get you into shape

so you can handle a piece of this war.

That's what I'm gonna do and that means

I'm gonna tell you what to do every day,

how to button your buttons

and when to blow your noses.

If you do something I don't like I'm gonna

jump and when I land it'll hurt.

I'll ride you until you can't stand up.

When you do, you'll be marines.

Flynn stays here.

Extra-hard product of a hard school.

Tough luck, Flynn.

- If my brother doesn't go, I'm not going.

- Shut up!

- Who are you telling to shut up?

- You!

Let's go before we all lose our liberty.

I wanna see those Wellington babes.

- How do you feel, boy?

- Like a little bird with feathers on it.

- Don't fly away, little bird.

- I can't. I'm still in the egg.

Beautiful, beautiful! I wanna dance.

You're gonna sit down.

Yes, ma'am, Tennessee,

that's where I come from.

The greatest state in the Union.

They call it the volunteer state.

Right there is where I'm from.

Smithville, Tennessee, what a town!

These are all my cousins on my mama's

side and these are on my papa's side.

We got the best tobacco there is, too.

More fertiliser comes from Tennessee

than any other place in the world.

Listen to that band! Zombies!

They're all dead.

- Maybe they like music that way here.

- Or don't know any other kind.

- I'm talking these boys into a session.

- Maybe they don't have it in them.

After I'm through, they will.

They're breaking my heart.

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!

- There is a happy man.

- Wait until tomorrow.

- Don't be a killjoy, dance. I'll watch him.

- I'm not much on dancing.

- You might try just this once.

- No, thanks.

- Pete's my name, Pete Conway.

- Allison.

- Hello, Allison.

- Hello, Pete.

- You're warm. Want to sit down?

- No. I don't want to lose you.

- Cutting in.

- Shove off, Mac.

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