A Bright Shining Lie

(# Jefferson Airplane: Somebody To Love)

# When the truth is found

# To be lies

# And all the joy within you dies

# Don't you want somebody to love?

# Don't you need somebody to love?

# Wouldn't you love somebody to love?

# You better find somebody to love

(Explosion)

# When the garden flowers

# Baby are dead

# Yes and your mind, your mind

# Is so full of red

# Don't you want somebody to love?

# Don't you need somebody to love?

# Wouldn't you love somebody to love?

# You better find somebody to love

# Your eyes, I say your eyes

may look like his

# Yeah but in your head baby

# I'm afraid you don't know where it is

# Don't you want somebody to love?

# Don't you need somebody to love?

# Wouldn't you love somebody to love?

# You better find somebody to love

# Tears are running

# Running down your breast

# And your friends, baby

# They treat you like a guest

# Don't you want somebody to love?

# Don't you need somebody to love?

# Wouldn't you love... #

(Man) Ready, aim, fire.

Ready, aim, fire.

Present arms.

(# Last Post)

(Quietly) Excuse me.

(Man) I had come to say goodbye.

Vietnam tore us apart.

We went there believing

in freedom and democracy

but somehow we lost our moral compass.

How did we let it happen?

A decade ago things seemed

so much clearer.

(# Chubby Checker: The Twist)

# Come on baby

# Let's do the twist

# Ooh-wah-wah

# Come on baby

# Let's do the twist

# Ooh-wah

# Take me by my little hand

# And go like this

# Ooh

# Ee-aw

# Round and around... #

These are extraordinary times

and we face an extraordinary challenge.

Our strength, as well as our convictions,

have imposed upon this nation

the role of leader in freedom's cause.

It is a contest of will and purpose

as well as force and violence and,

in that contest, we cannot stand aside.

(Man) Gentlemen, to West Berlin

and next year Moscow.

- (Men) Moscow.

- West Berlin, sh*t. You'll never fire a shot.

Oh, Vann, you wanna tell me what the hell

you did so wrong to pull Vietnam?

- I'm gonna see combat, boys.

- A bunch of gooks with shotguns.

- Hey, those gooks beat the French.

- Ooh, beat the French.

- Who hasn't?

- Mark my words, gentlemen,

- Vietnam is the war of the future.

- (All) Ooh. War of the future.

- Right.

- (Gl) Oh, man.

(Chatter)

- Howdy, darling.

- Hi.

Same again for me

and my constituents over there.

- Right. Two whiskeys, two beers.

- And a Coke, please.

- Yeah. We have a good boy over there, huh?

- That's me, honey. I don't drink or smoke.

What else don't you do?

- Keep the change.

- Thank you.

(# On jukebox:
Brenda Lee: I'm sorry)

# That I was such a fool... #

Oh yeah.

# I didn't know

# Love could be so cruel

# Oh, ho, ho, ho #

(Dog barks in distance)

- Hey, I bought you some flowers.

- What's to celebrate?

I got it. I got it.

The Pentagon? You...

Vietnam. Vietnam.

(Laughs)

Vietnam? W-Well, what happened

to Washington?

Mary, don't you see? I'm going to war.

You know what happens in a war?

Guys like me get promoted.

Now I can fight my way to the top.

Oh, we are going to Washington...

but I'm going as a soldier,

not a goddamn clerk.

Oh...

Wait a minute, John,

you kind of smell like perfume.

- Oh, hell, honey, it's the flowers.

- Oh.

Baby, this is the chance

we've been waiting for. This is it.

(Shouting)

- Enlisted men over here.

- Yeah, tell 'em to hustle.

- Enlisted men, over here.

- Saigon, over here, in the trucks.

- OK, right over there, sir. Morning, sir.

- Vann, John P, Lieutenant Colonel.

Colonel Vann. Colonel Vann.

Er, I don't have you on manifest, sir.

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