The Bridges at Toko-Ri Page #2
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- 1954
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in his green hat.
You relax, 'cause you got it knocked.
I'm mighty glad they pulled you out.
We can use you around here.
- Coming from you, I appreciate that.
- I mean it.
You fly well.
You go in low, you do your job.
You'd have a great future in the Navy.
Why not make it your career?
- You know what I think of the Navy.
- Still bitter, huh?
Say what you think. I always do.
Of course, I've said it
drawing pay but weren't called up.
I was inactive and yet I was.
I had to give up my home,
my law practice, everything.
I'm still bitter.
So bitter I could put on an act to
the surgeon and get myself grounded.
Why don't you?
That's what I kept asking myself
when I was in that ice water.
You think about your friends who
are back home leading normal lives.
I wonder if you were back home
whether you wouldn't do the same.
It's not a question of indifference
but of distance.
They act that way
because they're there.
You go on doing your job because
you're here. It's as simple as that.
The progress this world has made
has always been
because of the efforts
and sacrifices of a few.
I was one of the few at New Guinea,
Leyte, Okinawa. Why me again?
Nobody knows why he gets
the dirty job. And this is a dirty job.
- Militarily, this war is a tragedy.
- We ought to pull out.
Rubbish. If we did, they'd take Japan,
Indo-China, the Philippines.
Where would you make a stand?
The Mississippi?
Men fight the wrong war in the wrong
place. The one they're stuck with.
That's why, one day, we'll knock out
those bridges at Toko-Ri.
- Do we have to knock them out?
- Yes, we must.
some morning, Communist generals
will be meeting to discuss the war.
A messenger will say, "They've
knocked out the bridges at Toko-Ri!"
That mission will convince them that
we'll never weaken in our purpose.
That's the day they'll quit.
I didn't call you here
to discuss strategy
but to chew you out
'cause of your wife.
My wife?
- You knew she was in Japan.
- She made it!
- I hope she's got the kids.
- Hope you don't get a court martial.
- I had nothing to do with it.
- How did she get here?
Her father was a senator
for Massachusetts.
- I don't care if she's broken rules.
- War's no place for women.
I'll tell COMNAVFE you had nothing
to do with bringing her out.
- I'd like to meet your wife.
- It'd be a pleasure.
See if the surgeon can spare you
a nightcap, give you a good sleep.
In three days, you'll be in Japan.
No more take-offs for a while.
No, sir.
It's gonna be a long three days.
Group one, idle.
Group two, idle.
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