"SEPTEMBER" " Thanks for the ride." " Get going." "No time for breakfast." "Are you working?" "Yeah, I'll be at the station all day, so hitch a ride home." " You got practice today?" " After that, we're on double time." "You should be ashamed!" "You'd think they'd take it down." "Come on, bud." "You lost a football game once yourself." " What?" "I don't remember!" " I do." "I think you're lying!" "I never know when to believe your mouth!" "Likewise." " Later, bud." " See you, Jed." " So did you do your history?" " Yeah." "Some of it." "The Great Hunt would always begin with the armies spread out in a semi-circle," "I would say about the size of Rhode Island." "Then they would ride forward, driving everything before them." "Beasts, men, even bugs." "Now, the ends would kinda close in to form a shrinking circle." "And everything within that circle panicked to get out." "So when the Mongols could see each other, they had worked themselves up into a pretty good frenzy." "Now, when this killing started, it last for days, weeks, even months." "And it went on until the young son of the Khan ask his father that the last creature alive" "be allowed to go free." "Well, now, my friend..." "Well, now." "Check it out." "They look pretty cool, though, man." "I would say they were way off course." "This is very unusual." "Better do something, Mr Teasdale." "What's going on here, my friend?" "Come on, let's go!" "Get in!" "Get down!" " Get in!" " Wait!" "Get in!" "Dad!" " What's happening?" " They're shooting at everybody!" "Shooting?" " We're going to the mountains!" " Who are they?" " I heard some of 'em speaking Spanish." " Did you see any of 'em?" " Who are they?" " Oh, my God!" "Boys, get in there, and get sleeping bags and food." "Right now." "Come on." "Hurry up, boys." "Come on, son." " Take the dry stuff!" " Get the dehydrated stuff!" "Plenty of Kleenex!" "And get some lanterns!" "Grab some toilet paper!" "I ain't gonna use no leaves!" "Take a lot of batteries!" "All the batteries you can carry!" " Take that shotgun there." " Get those jackets." "Matt, look!" "Get down, get down, get down!" "Lay down!" "Is it ours?" "I love you, Dad." "Tell Mom I love her." " Yeah." " I'll take care of him." "All right, come on, boys, let's get outta here!" "And don't come back here." "No matter what you see or hear, don't come back!" "I'll come and get you soon enough." "Open the glove compartment." " Is it there?" " Yeah." "Load it." " It's already loaded." " Give it here." " You want these also, Jed?" " Yeah, put 'em in my pocket." "Jesus Christ!" " Oh, my God!" " Oh, Jesus!" "I'm gonna turn off quick!" "It's a helicopter!" "It's ours!" "Get in!" " Did you get it?" " Yeah." "Only thing is, we got one problem." "We don't have any water." "How about pissing in it?" " That's a good idea." "Get up here." " How do you know it'll work?" " How old are you, kid?" " Fifteen." "And the name's Danny, not kid." "Well, when you... grow up, you'll know these things, Danny." "Now get up here and piss in the radiator!" "We've got Yankee tanks coming in from the plains." "We've lost most of our night vision and have only a few anti-tank missiles left." "Put your best men into hunter groups armed with RPG's." "Have your men dig holes 100 meters apart." "Wait until the Yankees approach to strike, then attack them in force." "Yes, Colonel Bella." "I want some anti-aircraft here." "We're working on it, sir." "This is a madhouse!" "Do you want to see me?" "Yes." "Go to the sporting goods store." "From the files, obtain form 4473." "These will contain descriptions of weapons and lists of private ownership." "But our families, huh?" "What about them?" "Huh?" "We gotta stay up here and hide awhile." "I just wanna go home." "I don't wanna hide." "If I hide, they'll never find me." "Check it out." "It stopped a bullet that would've hit somebody." " I got these." " Those'll do us a lot of good!" "We've got no radio!" "How long do you think we can survive up here on olives and Rice Krispies?" "What else are we gonna do?" "As Calumet Student Body President," "I forward the motion that we give ourselves up." "I second the motion!" "We can't stay here." "We need stuff and..." "Sit down, Danny!" "It's too dangerous to go into town." " I say we vote on it." " No." "This isn't the big game, Mr Quarterback!" "He can go!" "No." "You're such a goddamn jock!" "Hey, come on, guys, knock it off." "You wanna go so bad?" "Here - haul ass, take your shit!" "That goes for the rest of you!" "This is your chance." "Get walking." "It is World War III down there." "People are being killed." "Those could be Russians." "Jed, what about your family?" "I don't know." "But I'm alive and I'm staying here." "My family would want me to stay alive." "Your family would want you to stay alive." "I mean, you think you're so smart, man, but you're just a bunch of scared kids!" "What do you think you are?" "Alone, I guess." "No, you're not." "Hey, bud, whaddaya say?" " I'm with you." " All right." "Now the rest of you get going." "All right, but if you stay you're gonna do exactly what I say, OK?" " Huh?" " Yeah." "So come on over here and get warm." "Daryl." "Sorry." "Me too, man." "OK." "Now, Matt and I have been coming up to these mountains with our dad all of our lives." "We can hunt, we can fish, we can stay up here a long, long time." "OK?" "How long, Jed?" "Until we don't hear that no more." "OCTOBER" "I got him!" "You got him." " He's still breathing!" " No!" "Never shoot twice!" " Why?" " If you shoot twice, they can find you." " He's dead, anyway." " How do you know?" "I used to read a lot about Jedediah Smith and Jim Bridger." "The Blackfeet, if you shot twice, would know right where you were." "My dad named me after Jed Smith." "It's your first time, isn't it?" "Yeah." "Why?" "You gotta drink if it's your first." "We did." " What's it taste like?" " It's not too bad." "It's kinda salty - like a steak, or when you got a nosebleed." "You gotta do it, Robert." "It's the spirit of the deer." "When you drink it, you'll be a real hunter." "Bottoms up." "Go ahead." "Go for it, buddy!" "All right!" "You did it, man." "His blood is yours." "My dad said that, once you do that, there's gonna be something different about you." "Always." "It wasn't so bad." "It wasn't that bad." "It wasn't so bad." "That's the last of it..." "except for the olives." " Still got plenty of meat left." " Just stuff you shot." "So, dork, where do you suppose hamburgers come from?" " Nobody'd shoot them!" " We need food." " We need to know." " Yeah, we do." "All right." "We'll go into town." "Jesus!" "There's no one here, either." "Looks like it's been here for a thousand years." "Come on." "Hey... those stores are open." "There's people everywhere." "Maybe it's over." " Get down!" " Hey!" "Don't go anywhere." " Those aren't our troops." " You can't tell from here, Jed." "Jesus Christ!" "What is that?" "I never seen a tank like that before!" "They're packed." "That means something." "Let's stash our stuff." "Leave it all here, OK?" "That's the mayor's car!" "They got Daryl's dad's car!" "Look at the size of that tank!" "Jesus!" "Lewis!" "How you doing?" "Was he scared of us?" "Hey, let's ask Alicia." "She'll know." "Six toothbrushes, please." " Oh, Jed!" " Hi, how's your sister?" " Where did you come from?" " The mountains." "We've been hiding..." " You gotta get outta here!" " First we gotta find out what's..." "They know who all of you are." "They're looking for you." " Who?" " The KGB!" " The Russians?" " And the Cubans!" "Cubans..." "Look, have you seen my father?" "I called - there was no answer." "I went by the station - it was empty." "OK, listen." "I'm gonna tell you something I'm not supposed to talk about, but..." "But what?" "But they took a lot of people away." "People they thought would make trouble." "People that had guns..." "They just took them away!" " Where?" " Re-education Camp, they call it." "The drive-in." "I heard they took a lot of people..." "Jed!" "I pray for you." "America is a whorehouse where the revolutionary ideals of your forefathers are corrupted and sold in alleys by vendors of capitalism." "You grow fat on the flesh of freedom fighters..." " Hey..." " Yeah?" "Could you find my dad" " Tom Eckert?" "I'm Jed." "Jed." " Matt?" " Mr Barnes?" "I'll go find your dad." "I know right where he is." "Hey!" "Do you know Morris' Market out on the highway?" "Can you see if Mr Morris is in there?" "I'll look around for him, too." "Daddy?" "It's all right, I can stand up." "Boys..." "Matty..." "Jed..." "Daddy?" "Don't talk, don't say anything." "Let me look at you." "Yeah, I knew I was right." "I knew it." "You're alive." "I was tough on both of you." "I did things that made you hate me sometimes." "But you understand now, don't you?" "What happened, Dad?" "Why are you here?" "What did they do?" "Doesn't matter." "One way or another, for one reason or another, we're all gone." "It's all gone." "Remember..." "Remember when you used to go in the park and play?" "And I used to put you on the swings?" "And both of you were so damn little that..." "I remember..." "I remember all of it." "I ain't gonna be around to pick you up when you fall." "You gotta take care of each other now." " We'll never see you again, Dad!" " You will." "I don't wanna hear that, Matty." "What happened to Mom, Dad?" "Where is she?" "We can't afford to be crying any more now." "I don't want either one of you ever to cry for me again." "Don't ever do it." "Not as long as you live." "Where's my dad, Mr Eckert?" "I don't know, son." "I don't know." "You all get going now." "Get out before they find you." "Dad," "I love you." "I know you do, son." "I love you, too." "I know." "Boys!" "Avenge me!" "Avenge me!" "Come on." "I'll be damned!" "It is you!" "Mr Mason, how are you doing?" "Good to see you!" "Mrs Mason!" "Hey, we got us an outlaw here!" "Wow, a house!" "Go on and find a chair." "Last time we were in a house was five weeks!" "You look it!" " Who you got out there with you?" " We got Danny, we got Daryl..." "Well, we all figured you boys had headed for FA by now." " What's FA?" " Free America." "That's the safe zone." " Where are we?" " You boys is in occupied territory." "40 miles behind enemy lines." "That's smack-dab in the middle of World War III." "What are you boys doing around town, anyway?" "We've been looking for news, Mr Mason." "We haven't even seen or talked to anybody since it started." "Now wait here just a minute." "I wish there was more." "Sorry." "Thank you, Mrs Mason." "We really appreciate this." "Here, this'll keep you boys warm." "Use this to see where you're standing from now on." "A radio?" "Mr Mason, we can't take this." "Now, that's all right." "I got another one." "You boys listen to me." " Don't go to Calumet no more." " How come?" "Because there's been some attacks up there." "There have been people waking up with their throats cut." "Word has it, it's you." "No!" "What happened to my dad and mom?" "Your daddy's dead, Robert." "They shot him." "Russians found some guns missing, so they shot him for aiding guerrillas." "Aiding guerrillas?" "He never aided anybody!" " We just took the stuff!" " We killed him!" "They killed him, son." "Made him an example." "Now you boys listen to me and let that burn in real good." "I don't know where your mother is, Robert." "I ain't got nobody now!" "You boys need food, a bed, you need anything, you come here." "I got a couple of heirlooms I wanna hide with you." "Jack, no!" "My granddaughters." "They spent two days sneaking here." "The sons of bitches tried having their way with 'em!" "Toni, Erica," "This is Matt and Jed Eckert." "They're gonna take care of you." "I don't wanna know where they're going." "Bye, Grandpa." "Mr Mason." "Mr Mason." "Good luck, son." "Here." "Here's a box of ammo for your granddaddy's pistol." " Thanks." " Good luck." "I'll take care of 'em." "Don't you worry." "It's 11:59 at Radio Free America, with music and the truth until dawn." "I've a few words for our brothers and sisters in the occupied zone." "The chair is against the wall." "The chair is against the wall." "John has a long moustache." "John has a long moustache." "It's 12 o'clock, a day closer to victory." "And for all of you out there on or behind the lines, this is your song." "Things are different now." " They're coming up!" " Yeah." "Let's go tell the others." "Oh, how beautiful." "What is written here?" "You studied English." "Translate." "American history." "I know this well." "Arapaho National Battlefield." "Here was a great peasant uprising in 1908 of wild Indians." "They were crushed by President Theodore Roosevelt." "Leading imperialist armies and cowboys." "The battle lasted all winter." "More than 35,000 were killed." "It was the greatest battle of the American West." "Bravo!" "Yuri, stay here." "I'll take a photo of you." "African baboon." "Now you." "Come here, my friend." "Hurry up, you fool." "Look at me, Yuri." "Look what I've found." "An arrow." "An Indian arrow." "What a philosopher you are." "I did not know the Indians used steel." "Sure, you fool, they used the melted sabers of Federalist Cossacks." "Did these Indians work in plastic, too?" "You idiot, this is bone, polished to a high sheen." "There must be more." "Look." "Stop!" "What are you doing?" "Watch out!" "She has a weapon." "Stop, damn it!" "Quickly." "Catch him!" "Take cover!" "Stop!" "Help me, comrades." " Grab him!" " I got him!" "I'm dying." "God help me!" "God help me!" "They were people." "Yeah, well, so was my dad." "What was it like?" "It was good." "One thing's for sure now." "No one can ever go home again." "Never." "Why don't you make yourself useful?" "You wash it!" "We ain't ever doing your washing again!" "Me and her is as good as any of you!" " So what's up your ass?" " Shut up!" "Don't you ever say that again!" "Hear me?" "You say that again, I'll kill you!" "Hear me?" "I'll kill you!" "So what did I do?" "What you said was wrong." "From now on all troops are forbidden to travel outside secured areas in any group smaller than squad size." "Then call Bratchenko." "Tell him Sector Eight is now active." "Right away, Colonel Bella." "And I want some interrogations made, starting with the mayor." "I'm sick of his... pleasantries." "Consider it done." "Daryl wouldn't hurt a fly." "I know my son." "He's not the guerrilla type." "According to records, Mayor, your son is a prominent student leader." "Yes, well, he is a leader, but not in a violent or physical way." "No, you see, Daryl is more of a politician, like his father." "A member of an elite paramilitary organization" " Eagle Scout." "Ah, yes, but that's not military." "Colonel, if he's alive, he's scared, he's hungry, and just as anxious to avoid conflict as you and me." " He's not a troublemaker." " Then who is?" "Well, let's just say it runs in some of the families." "This community's fortunate to have a shepherd like him!" "Well, I just wanna see this thing through, Colonel." " If you have more problems, call me..." " Thank you." "We are finished." "For now." "Don't cry!" "Hold it back!" "Let it turn to something else." "Just let it turn into something else, OK?" "No!" "Hey, listen to me!" "Listen!" "Don't cry." "Don't you ever cry again as long as you live." "As long as you live, never do it." "Do you hear me?" "They're gonna kill us!" "All of us!" "So why should we be different?" "Let it turn to something else, Matty." "Let it turn." "Let it turn." "Take gasoline." "Hey, girl, what are you doing here?" "Hey, beautiful, where are you going?" "Forget the broad - just get her stuff." "Where are you going?" "You're so beautiful." "Wait." "What's wrong with you?" "Let's get her!" "Run!" "This way!" "Wolverines!" "It's cut." "It's cut!" "I've seen this before." "Nicaragua, San Salvador," "Cambodia, Angola, and Mexico." "But these are my men!" "Miss, maybe you speak at me for a minute." " I'll be right back, OK?" " You bring girlfriend?" "OK, I be right here." "Bye." "What is a "Wolverine"?" "A small animal, like a badger, but terribly ferocious." "It is also the name of the local school sports collective." "They're beasts, Ernesto." "You must kill every one of them eventually." "It's the same as Afghanistan." "They'll never stop." "Look, I was always on the side of the insurgents." "I have no experience in these matters." "But it would seem necessary to win the support of the people." "As our opponents used to say in Vietnam:" ""Win their hearts and minds."" "And they lost, Ernesto." "Of course, General." "Things are paralyzed at the front, Ernesto." "Morale is crucial right now." "Keep the men in the secured areas." "You'll see how they forget about these "Wolverines"." "Are you all right?" "You were saying, comrade?" "Shut up!" "What's going on here?" "!" "NOVEMBER" "You American?" "Red-blooded." "Yeah, well, what's the capital of Texas?" "Austin." " Wrong, commie!" "It's Houston!" " Please, darling." "I'm cold." "You've seen too many movies." "Well, hungry?" " I could eat, yeah." " What kinda plane do you fly?" "Well, I did fly an F-1 5." "Here." "I'm an Eagle driver." "Here." "Take this." "I got the off a dead Russian major." " Major, huh?" " Yeah." "Well, I guess it ought to fit on a colonel." "Are you the honcho, sport?" "Who are you?" "Andrew Tanner, Lieutenant Colonel, US Air Force." "How'd you get shot down, Colonel?" "It was five to one." "I got four." " I'm Jed." " How ya doing, Jed?" "Good as can be." "West coast." "East coast." "Down here is Mexico." "First wave of the attack came disguised as a commercial charter flight." "Same way they did in Afghanistan in '80, only they were crack airborne outfits." "They took these passes in the Rockies." " So that's what hit Calumet?" " I guess so." "The missiles were a helluva lot more accurate than we thought." "They took out the silos in the Dakotas." " Key points of communication." " Like what?" "Like Omaha, Washington, Kansas City." " Gone?" " Yeah, that's right." "Infiltrators came up illegal, from Mexico." "Cubans, mostly." "They managed to infiltrate the SAC bases in the Midwest, several down in Texas, and wreaked a helluva lot of havoc." "They opened up the door down here, and the Cuban and Nicaraguan armies come walking right through..." "rolled up here through the Great Plains." " How far did they get?" " Cheyenne, across to Kansas." "We held them at the Rockies and at the Mississippi." "Anyway, the Russians reinforced with sixty divisions." "Sent three army groups across the Bering Strait into Alaska." "Cut the pipeline, came across Canada to link up here in the middle, but we stopped 'em cold!" "The lines have pretty much stabilized now." " What about Europe?" " I guess they figured twice in one century was enough." "They're sitting this one out." "All except England, and they won't last very long." "The Russians need to take us in one piece and that's why they're here." "That's why they won't use nukes any more and we won't either." "The whole damn thing's pretty conventional." "Who knows?" "Maybe... next week'll be swords." " What started it?" " I don't know." "Two toughest kids on the block, I guess." "Sooner or later they're gonna fight." "That simple?" "Maybe somebody just forgot what it was like." "Well, who is on our side?" "Six hundred million screaming Chinamen." "Last I heard there were a billion screaming Chinamen." "There were." "You got a family?" "I don't know." "They got caught behind the lines down in Texas." "I like to think they're alive, but" "I hear stories about what they're doing to civilians." " Colonel, get up." " What?" "We're taking off." "We're gonna go shoot up an armored column." "Let's go." "Early bird gets worm." "Early bird gets the worm!" "Watch those claymores in the trees!" "Matt, RPG!" "Good shot!" "Now what do you think?" "Not bad for a bunch of kids, huh?" "Your mom would be real proud." "You think you're tough for eating beans every day?" "Half a million scarecrows in Denver would give anything for what you got." "They've been under siege for about three months." "They live on rats and sawdust bread, and sometimes on each other." "At night the pyres for the dead light up the sky." "It's medieval." "All that hate's gonna burn you up, kid." "It keeps me warm." "Colonel?" "Are we doing right?" "You made a new friend." "Yeah." "She doesn't say much, does she?" "No." "Something happened to her." "DECEMBER" "All right." "Plane, plane, plane, plane." "Cuban bunker, Russian bunker, munitions dump, troop tanks." "Machine-gun bunkers here, here, here, and here." "Here by the drive-in screen are political prisoners." "We cause a diversion over here, cut holes in the wire here, fire on these machine-gun positions." "The B group comes across this area in a flanking maneuver." "When you reach this bunker, lay down grazing fire on this duffle-A." "I think that's pretty simple." " Anybody got any questions so far?" " What's a flank?" " A duffle-A?" " Yeah, what's grazing fire?" "I need a drink!" "Help!" "The "Wolverines" are attacking." "Follow me." "Quickly!" " Come on!" " Move it!" "Take it!" "Go!" "Come on!" "Get outta here!" " Come on, here's your chance!" "Move!" " We're all gonna die!" "Die standing up!" "Grenade!" "Children did this." "It's rebels." "What rebels?" "They're bandits." "Every time they shoot, the revolution grows." "I know." "I was a partisan." "And what are you now?" "Now I'm like you." "A policeman." "All right!" "All right!" "He's down!" "Great play!" "Are you OK?" "A little harder down on the ground, isn't it?" " Yeah!" " Come on, old man." "Oh, God, come down here!" "How old's your wife?" "How old's your wife?" "Eighty!" " What's she like?" " Old, like me." "What's she really like?" "Feisty, like you!" "Where'd you meet her?" "You really wanna know this stuff?" "Yeah." "I met her in a closet at a party." "I couldn't stand her at first, but once it took," "I loved her so bad it hurt." "You still love her like that?" " Are you playing or what?" " No!" "Fine." "They brought their kids." "They didn't have food enough to feed 'em through the winter." "They want to give 'em to you, Jed." "This is enough, Mr Mason." "I don't want any more." "You're a leader now." "They've heard of you on the other side." "Maybe all the way to California." "Some say they'll drop in some Special Forces in the spring to help you out." "Green Berets." "Spring's a long time away." "It's a lot of talk until then." "JANUARY" "It's ours!" "It's ours!" " How can you tell?" " It's ours." "Yeah!" "Fry 'em!" "Jesus!" "You gotta cross that." "Just part of it." "I hope our guys are still there." "So this is a battlefield." "It's real war, kid." "It's here every day." "Come with me, Jed." "You can quit now." "Could you?" "Don't give me that crap!" "Wake up in the morning, grow old." "Move it!" "Come on, move it!" "Let's go!" "Get down!" "Down, down, down!" "Stay down!" "He can't see us!" "He's looking for us!" "He sure is." "No!" "I can't stand it!" "Get down!" "Shut up!" "Get down!" "Run!" "Everybody get outta here!" "What are you doing?" "Goddamnit!" "They're coming up there!" "I got it!" "Get outta here, kid!" "There's a world of hurt coming down!" "I'm staying with you!" "Take him out with the RPG!" " It won't load!" " Sonofabitch!" "Give me another rocket!" "Aardvark!" "Eat me!" "No!" "Come on, buddies, come and get 'em!" "Shoot straight, for once, you army... pukes." "No!" "It's useless!" "He's dead!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Ever love anybody?" "I'll never love anybody again!" "If you didn't love anybody you'd never even be here." "Where are we gonna bury 'em?" "There's not much left to bury." "Oh, God." "These were good friends." "Take them away from here." "To someplace safe, where this world never happened." "And, as we remember, please let them forget, O Lord," "so they can be little again." "Amen." "Jed..." " Jed..." " What are you whispering for?" "It feels quiet." "You should get some sleep." "It's getting late." "I'm OK." "Kinda strange, isn't it?" "How the mountains pay us no attention at all." "You laugh or you cry..." "The wind just keeps on blowing." "It was bound to happen sooner or later." "Getting pretty lean on feelings, aren't you?" "Can't afford 'em." "Even if that had been me?" "I was talking to the group, Jed." "It doesn't look good." "They're all talking about quitting." "They've lost the stomach for it." "Except for Robert." " And you?" " I'm your brother." "Just make it count." "FEBRUARY" "Attention!" "Be seated, comrades." "What I despise most about warfare is the hypocrisy it often breeds." "I've heard euphemisms that we are containing the enemy, that our sector of pacification is growing." "These are the tactics of the lie." "Lies have the stench of death and defeat." "You can only win a war by exterminating the enemy." "Do you know who we are fighting?" "We are fighting Wolverines, small, ferocious animals." "For them, you need a hunter." "And you know, I am the hunter." "From this moment on there will be no further reprisals against civilians." "This is stupid." "Impotence." "Comrades, if a fox stole your chickens, would you slaughter your pig because he saw the fox?" "No." "You would hunt the fox." "Find where it lives and destroy it!" "And how do we do this?" "Become a fox." "Danny, your bolt's open." "It's jammed." "Danny!" "Hey!" "What if he does?" "You don't!" "We'd better get out of here!" "Shut up!" " What is this thing?" " What is it?" "Who's coming after us?" "Where are they?" "Rub a butt on him!" "Suck at you!" "Goddamn for you mother!" "I hear a chopper and I'm gonna blow your brains out!" "Go die, Yankee!" " Die!" " Goddamn you." "Gorsky, Stepan Yevgenyvitch..." "No one gives a damn who you are!" " They're gonna hurt him!" " Good!" "Hey, look!" "This thing's got an arrow!" "It's pointing." "It's..." "Where?" "Right here." "Where is it?" "Where is it?" "Goddamnit, where's the bug?" " They made me swallow it." " Daryl, what have you done?" "I went into town." "And got caught?" "And went and got caught!" " Why?" " Because you said we couldn't." "You told them where we were, didn't you?" "You told them!" "My father turned me in." "Oh, God, they did things you can't imagine!" "You sonofabitch!" "Do you want blindfolds?" " This violates the Geneva Convention." " I never heard of it!" "Dogface!" "I show you how Soviet dies!" " Seen it before, pal." " This isn't happening!" " Jed, let him go!" " Shut up, Danny!" " He was one of us!" " Shut up!" "He told them where we were!" "He did." "Now get your rifles." "No!" " What did you say?" " I said no!" "We're not doing it!" "Boy, say at me you are friend, so I will not die alone." "What's the difference, Jed, huh?" "!" " I'll do it." " Shut up, Robert!" "Tell me, what's the difference between us and them?" "Because we live here!" "Don't shoot!" "Don't shoot me, Jed!" "Don't shoot me, Jed!" "How many of those you got left?" "Four." "Ready..." "No, wait." "Stop!" "What do you say?" "You hungry?" "Yeah." "Go, Toni!" "Let's get it fast and get back to the rock!" "Come on." "It's been so long." "Quiet!" "Oh, my God!" "Holy shit!" "Stay down!" "Stay down!" "Let's go!" "Get on your horses!" " Let's get outta here!" " Move it!" "Come on!" "Erica, come on!" "Get on!" "Come on, let's go!" "Go on!" "Toni!" "Wolverines!" "I'm killed, Jed." "Don't let 'em get me." "They'll make me talk." "Where's your gun?" "I want you to do it." "I can't!" "I can't, Toni." "It's OK." "Give me a grenade." "I don't wanna be too cold." "Pull the pin for me." "Go." "I'm just gonna stay here and listen to the wind awhile, OK?" "Go." "Comrade Colonel." "I would estimate the enemy body count at..." "Twelve." "Wouldn't you agree?" "Twelve?" "Twelve?" "I saw only one." "But they carry off their dead." "Of course." "Why not?" "What do you think?" "All right, listen to me." "You two wait here until the troops pull back into town." "You'll know when that happens." "When they do, head out for the plains." " What about you?" " I gotta stick around." "Stir things up so you can make it out." " We're going with you, Matty..." " Listen to me!" "We're all that's left." "Somebody's gotta live, somebody's gotta make it!" "Me and Jed are all used up." "I'm never gonna forget!" "As long as I live," "I'll never forget!" "Don't." "Matt, you're never gonna know who won!" "Who will?" "We could make it, Jed." "We've done a lot tougher than this before." "We cause a diversion, get outta here, head back to the mountains." "I love you, Matty." "I know." "I love you, too, Jed." "It's hard being brothers, isn't it?" "Yeah." "Let's go." "I can't remember what it was to be warm." "It seems a thousand years since I was a small boy in the sun." "How did I come to this high, desolate place where there is nothing but loneliness?" "So much is lost." "I want to look into your eyes and forget." "It all seems so far away." "A warm house where my shadow never falls." "Your long, black hair in my hands." "There is no more revolution." "Only you to come back to." "I will post my resignation." "Come on!" "Let's go!" "They're attacking the station." "Everybody to the station." "Hurry, hurry!" "You lose." "You can rest now." "Just hang on, Matty." "Matty." "You OK, Matty?" "OK?" "Just hang on, Matty." "Daddy'll be here soon, Matty." "Hang on, Matty." "Come on, Matty." "Daddy'll be here soon." "Come on, Matty." "I'll hold you as long as I can, Matty." "I'll hold you as long as I can!" "You can lean on me." "I'm so tired." "So tired." "We're free now." "Free." "I never saw the brothers again." "In time this war, like every other war, ended." "But I never forgot." "And I come to this place often, when no one else does." ""In the early days of World War III, guerrillas, mostly children, placed the names of their lost upon this rock."" ""They fought here alone and gave up their lives so that this nation shall not perish from the earth."" "SEPTEMBER" " Thanks for the ride." " Get going." "No time for breakfast." "Are you working?" "Yeah, I'll be at the station all day, so hitch a ride home." " You got practice today?" " After that, we're on double time." "You should be ashamed!" "You'd think they'd take it down." "Come on, bud." "You lost a football game once yourself." " What?" "I don't remember!" " I do." "I think you're lying!" "I never know when to believe your mouth!" "Likewise." " Later, bud." " See you, Jed." " So did you do your history?" " Yeah." "Some of it." "The Great Hunt would always begin with the armies spread out in a semi-circle," "I would say about the size of Rhode Island." "Then they would ride forward, driving everything before them." "Beasts, men, even bugs." "Now, the ends would kinda close in to form a shrinking circle." "And everything within that circle panicked to get out." "So when the Mongols could see each other, they had worked themselves up into a pretty good frenzy." "Now, when this killing started, it last for days, weeks, even months." "And it went on until the young son of the Khan ask his father that the last creature alive" "be allowed to go free." "Well, now, my friend..." "Well, now." "Check it out." "They look pretty cool, though, man." "I would say they were way off course." "This is very unusual." "Better do something, Mr Teasdale." "What's going on here, my friend?" "Come on, let's go!" "Get in!" "Get down!" " Get in!" " Wait!" "Get in!" "Dad!" " What's happening?" " They're shooting at everybody!" "Shooting?" " We're going to the mountains!" " Who are they?" " I heard some of 'em speaking Spanish." " Did you see any of 'em?" " Who are they?" " Oh, my God!" "Boys, get in there, and get sleeping bags and food." "Right now." "Come on." "Hurry up, boys." "Come on, son." " Take the dry stuff!" " Get the dehydrated stuff!" "Plenty of Kleenex!" "And get some lanterns!" "Grab some toilet paper!" "I ain't gonna use no leaves!" "Take a lot of batteries!" "All the batteries you can carry!" " Take that shotgun there." " Get those jackets." "Matt, look!" "Get down, get down, get down!" "Lay down!" "Is it ours?" "I love you, Dad." "Tell Mom I love her." " Yeah." " I'll take care of him." "All right, come on, boys, let's get outta here!" "And don't come back here." "No matter what you see or hear, don't come back!" "I'll come and get you soon enough." "Open the glove compartment." " Is it there?" " Yeah." "Load it." " It's already loaded." " Give it here." " You want these also, Jed?" " Yeah, put 'em in my pocket." "Jesus Christ!" " Oh, my God!" " Oh, Jesus!" "I'm gonna turn off quick!" "It's a helicopter!" "It's ours!" "Get in!" " Did you get it?" " Yeah." "Only thing is, we got one problem." "We don't have any water." "How about pissing in it?" " That's a good idea." "Get up here." " How do you know it'll work?" " How old are you, kid?" " Fifteen." "And the name's Danny, not kid." "Well, when you... grow up, you'll know these things, Danny." "Now get up here and piss in the radiator!" "We've got Yankee tanks coming in from the plains." "We've lost most of our night vision and have only a few anti-tank missiles left." "Put your best men into hunter groups armed with RPG's." "Have your men dig holes 100 meters apart." "Wait until the Yankees approach to strike, then attack them in force." "Yes, Colonel Bella." "I want some anti-aircraft here." "We're working on it, sir." "This is a madhouse!" "Do you want to see me?" "Yes." "Go to the sporting goods store." "From the files, obtain form 4473." "These will contain descriptions of weapons and lists of private ownership." "But our families, huh?" "What about them?" "Huh?" "We gotta stay up here and hide awhile." "I just wanna go home." "I don't wanna hide." "If I hide, they'll never find me." "Check it out." "It stopped a bullet that would've hit somebody." " I got these." " Those'll do us a lot of good!" "We've got no radio!" "How long do you think we can survive up here on olives and Rice Krispies?" "What else are we gonna do?" "As Calumet Student Body President," "I forward the motion that we give ourselves up." "I second the motion!" "We can't stay here." "We need stuff and..." "Sit down, Danny!" "It's too dangerous to go into town." " I say we vote on it." " No." "This isn't the big game, Mr Quarterback!" "He can go!" "No." "You're such a goddamn jock!" "Hey, come on, guys, knock it off." "You wanna go so bad?" "Here - haul ass, take your shit!" "That goes for the rest of you!" "This is your chance." "Get walking." "It is World War III down there." "People are being killed." "Those could be Russians." "Jed, what about your family?" "I don't know." "But I'm alive and I'm staying here." "My family would want me to stay alive." "Your family would want you to stay alive." "I mean, you think you're so smart, man, but you're just a bunch of scared kids!" "What do you think you are?" "Alone, I guess." "No, you're not." "Hey, bud, whaddaya say?" " I'm with you." " All right." "Now the rest of you get going." "All right, but if you stay you're gonna do exactly what I say, OK?" " Huh?" " Yeah." "So come on over here and get warm." "Daryl." "Sorry." "Me too, man." "OK." "Now, Matt and I have been coming up to these mountains with our dad all of our lives." "We can hunt, we can fish, we can stay up here a long, long time." "OK?" "How long, Jed?" "Until we don't hear that no more." "OCTOBER" "I got him!" "You got him." " He's still breathing!" " No!" "Never shoot twice!" " Why?" " If you shoot twice, they can find you." " He's dead, anyway." " How do you know?" "I used to read a lot about Jedediah Smith and Jim Bridger." "The Blackfeet, if you shot twice, would know right where you were." "My dad named me after Jed Smith." "It's your first time, isn't it?" "Yeah." "Why?" "You gotta drink if it's your first." "We did." " What's it taste like?" " It's not too bad." "It's kinda salty - like a steak, or when you got a nosebleed." "You gotta do it, Robert." "It's the spirit of the deer." "When you drink it, you'll be a real hunter." "Bottoms up." "Go ahead." "Go for it, buddy!" "All right!" "You did it, man." "His blood is yours." "My dad said that, once you do that, there's gonna be something different about you." "Always." "It wasn't so bad." "It wasn't that bad." "It wasn't so bad." "That's the last of it..." "except for the olives." " Still got plenty of meat left." " Just stuff you shot." "So, dork, where do you suppose hamburgers come from?" " Nobody'd shoot them!" " We need food." " We need to know." " Yeah, we do." "All right." "We'll go into town." "Jesus!" "There's no one here, either." "Looks like it's been here for a thousand years." "Come on." "Hey... those stores are open." "There's people everywhere." "Maybe it's over." " Get down!" " Hey!" "Don't go anywhere." " Those aren't our troops." " You can't tell from here, Jed." "Jesus Christ!" "What is that?" "I never seen a tank like that before!" "They're packed." "That means something." "Let's stash our stuff." "Leave it all here, OK?" "That's the mayor's car!" "They got Daryl's dad's car!" "Look at the size of that tank!" "Jesus!" "Lewis!" "How you doing?" "Was he scared of us?" "Hey, let's ask Alicia." "She'll know." "Six toothbrushes, please." " Oh, Jed!" " Hi, how's your sister?" " Where did you come from?" " The mountains." "We've been hiding..." " You gotta get outta here!" " First we gotta find out what's..." "They know who all of you are." "They're looking for you." " Who?" " The KGB!" " The Russians?" " And the Cubans!" "Cubans..." "Look, have you seen my father?" "I called - there was no answer." "I went by the station - it was empty." "OK, listen." "I'm gonna tell you something I'm not supposed to talk about, but..." "But what?" "But they took a lot of people away." "People they thought would make trouble." "People that had guns..." "They just took them away!" " Where?" " Re-education Camp, they call it." "The drive-in." "I heard they took a lot of people..." "Jed!" "I pray for you." "America is a whorehouse where the revolutionary ideals of your forefathers are corrupted and sold in alleys by vendors of capitalism." "You grow fat on the flesh of freedom fighters..." " Hey..." " Yeah?" "Could you find my dad" " Tom Eckert?" "I'm Jed." "Jed." " Matt?" " Mr Barnes?" "I'll go find your dad." "I know right where he is." "Hey!" "Do you know Morris' Market out on the highway?" "Can you see if Mr Morris is in there?" "I'll look around for him, too." "Daddy?" "It's all right, I can stand up." "Boys..." "Matty..." "Jed..." "Daddy?" "Don't talk, don't say anything." "Let me look at you." "Yeah, I knew I was right." "I knew it." "You're alive." "I was tough on both of you." "I did things that made you hate me sometimes." "But you understand now, don't you?" "What happened, Dad?" "Why are you here?" "What did they do?" "Doesn't matter." "One way or another, for one reason or another, we're all gone." "It's all gone." "Remember..." "Remember when you used to go in the park and play?" "And I used to put you on the swings?" "And both of you were so damn little that..." "I remember..." "I remember all of it." "I ain't gonna be around to pick you up when you fall." "You gotta take care of each other now." " We'll never see you again, Dad!" " You will." "I don't wanna hear that, Matty." "What happened to Mom, Dad?" "Where is she?" "We can't afford to be crying any more now." "I don't want either one of you ever to cry for me again." "Don't ever do it." "Not as long as you live." "Where's my dad, Mr Eckert?" "I don't know, son." "I don't know." "You all get going now." "Get out before they find you." "Dad," "I love you." "I know you do, son." "I love you, too." "I know." "Boys!" "Avenge me!" "Avenge me!" "Come on." "I'll be damned!" "It is you!" "Mr Mason, how are you doing?" "Good to see you!" "Mrs Mason!" "Hey, we got us an outlaw here!" "Wow, a house!" "Go on and find a chair." "Last time we were in a house was five weeks!" "You look it!" " Who you got out there with you?" " We got Danny, we got Daryl..." "Well, we all figured you boys had headed for FA by now." " What's FA?" " Free America." "That's the safe zone." " Where are we?" " You boys is in occupied territory." "40 miles behind enemy lines." "That's smack-dab in the middle of World War III." "What are you boys doing around town, anyway?" "We've been looking for news, Mr Mason." "We haven't even seen or talked to anybody since it started." "Now wait here just a minute." "I wish there was more." "Sorry." "Thank you, Mrs Mason." "We really appreciate this." "Here, this'll keep you boys warm." "Use this to see where you're standing from now on." "A radio?" "Mr Mason, we can't take this." "Now, that's all right." "I got another one." "You boys listen to me." " Don't go to Calumet no more." " How come?" "Because there's been some attacks up there." "There have been people waking up with their throats cut." "Word has it, it's you." "No!" "What happened to my dad and mom?" "Your daddy's dead, Robert." "They shot him." "Russians found some guns missing, so they shot him for aiding guerrillas." "Aiding guerrillas?" "He never aided anybody!" " We just took the stuff!" " We killed him!" "They killed him, son." "Made him an example." "Now you boys listen to me and let that burn in real good." "I don't know where your mother is, Robert." "I ain't got nobody now!" "You boys need food, a bed, you need anything, you come here." "I got a couple of heirlooms I wanna hide with you." "Jack, no!" "My granddaughters." "They spent two days sneaking here." "The sons of bitches tried having their way with 'em!" "Toni, Erica," "This is Matt and Jed Eckert." "They're gonna take care of you." "I don't wanna know where they're going." "Bye, Grandpa." "Mr Mason." "Mr Mason." "Good luck, son." "Here." "Here's a box of ammo for your granddaddy's pistol." " Thanks." " Good luck." "I'll take care of 'em." "Don't you worry." "It's 11:59 at Radio Free America, with music and the truth until dawn." "I've a few words for our brothers and sisters in the occupied zone." "The chair is against the wall." "The chair is against the wall." "John has a long moustache." "John has a long moustache." "It's 12 o'clock, a day closer to victory." "And for all of you out there on or behind the lines, this is your song." "Things are different now." " They're coming up!" " Yeah." "Let's go tell the others." "Oh, how beautiful." "What is written here?" "You studied English." "Translate." "American history." "I know this well." "Arapaho National Battlefield." "Here was a great peasant uprising in 1908 of wild Indians." "They were crushed by President Theodore Roosevelt." "Leading imperialist armies and cowboys." "The battle lasted all winter." "More than 35,000 were killed." "It was the greatest battle of the American West." "Bravo!" "Yuri, stay here." "I'll take a photo of you." "African baboon." "Now you." "Come here, my friend." "Hurry up, you fool." "Look at me, Yuri." "Look what I've found." "An arrow." "An Indian arrow." "What a philosopher you are." "I did not know the Indians used steel." "Sure, you fool, they used the melted sabers of Federalist Cossacks." "Did these Indians work in plastic, too?" "You idiot, this is bone, polished to a high sheen." "There must be more." "Look." "Stop!" "What are you doing?" "Watch out!" "She has a weapon." "Stop, damn it!" "Quickly." "Catch him!" "Take cover!" "Stop!" "Help me, comrades." " Grab him!" " I got him!" "I'm dying." "God help me!" "God help me!" "They were people." "Yeah, well, so was my dad." "What was it like?" "It was good." "One thing's for sure now." "No one can ever go home again." "Never." "Why don't you make yourself useful?" "You wash it!" "We ain't ever doing your washing again!" "Me and her is as good as any of you!" " So what's up your ass?" " Shut up!" "Don't you ever say that again!" "Hear me?" "You say that again, I'll kill you!" "Hear me?" "I'll kill you!" "So what did I do?" "What you said was wrong." "From now on all troops are forbidden to travel outside secured areas in any group smaller than squad size." "Then call Bratchenko." "Tell him Sector Eight is now active." "Right away, Colonel Bella." "And I want some interrogations made, starting with the mayor." "I'm sick of his... pleasantries." "Consider it done." "Daryl wouldn't hurt a fly." "I know my son." "He's not the guerrilla type." "According to records, Mayor, your son is a prominent student leader." "Yes, well, he is a leader, but not in a violent or physical way." "No, you see, Daryl is more of a politician, like his father." "A member of an elite paramilitary organization" " Eagle Scout." "Ah, yes, but that's not military." "Colonel, if he's alive, he's scared, he's hungry, and just as anxious to avoid conflict as you and me." " He's not a troublemaker." " Then who is?" "Well, let's just say it runs in some of the families." "This community's fortunate to have a shepherd like him!" "Well, I just wanna see this thing through, Colonel." " If you have more problems, call me..." " Thank you." "We are finished." "For now." "Don't cry!" "Hold it back!" "Let it turn to something else." "Just let it turn into something else, OK?" "No!" "Hey, listen to me!" "Listen!" "Don't cry." "Don't you ever cry again as long as you live." "As long as you live, never do it." "Do you hear me?" "They're gonna kill us!" "All of us!" "So why should we be different?" "Let it turn to something else, Matty." "Let it turn." "Let it turn." "Take gasoline." "Hey, girl, what are you doing here?" "Hey, beautiful, where are you going?" "Forget the broad - just get her stuff." "Where are you going?" "You're so beautiful." "Wait." "What's wrong with you?" "Let's get her!" "Run!" "This way!" "Wolverines!" "It's cut." "It's cut!" "I've seen this before." "Nicaragua, San Salvador," "Cambodia, Angola, and Mexico." "But these are my men!" "Miss, maybe you speak at me for a minute." " I'll be right back, OK?" " You bring girlfriend?" "OK, I be right here." "Bye." "What is a "Wolverine"?" "A small animal, like a badger, but terribly ferocious." "It is also the name of the local school sports collective." "They're beasts, Ernesto." "You must kill every one of them eventually." "It's the same as Afghanistan." "They'll never stop." "Look, I was always on the side of the insurgents." "I have no experience in these matters." "But it would seem necessary to win the support of the people." "As our opponents used to say in Vietnam:" ""Win their hearts and minds."" "And they lost, Ernesto." "Of course, General." "Things are paralyzed at the front, Ernesto." "Morale is crucial right now." "Keep the men in the secured areas." "You'll see how they forget about these "Wolverines"." "Are you all right?" "You were saying, comrade?" "Shut up!" "What's going on here?" "!" "NOVEMBER" "You American?" "Red-blooded." "Yeah, well, what's the capital of Texas?" "Austin." " Wrong, commie!" "It's Houston!" " Please, darling." "I'm cold." "You've seen too many movies." "Well, hungry?" " I could eat, yeah." " What kinda plane do you fly?" "Well, I did fly an F-1 5." "Here." "I'm an Eagle driver." "Here." "Take this." "I got the off a dead Russian major." " Major, huh?" " Yeah." "Well, I guess it ought to fit on a colonel." "Are you the honcho, sport?" "Who are you?" "Andrew Tanner, Lieutenant Colonel, US Air Force." "How'd you get shot down, Colonel?" "It was five to one." "I got four." " I'm Jed." " How ya doing, Jed?" "Good as can be." "West coast." "East coast." "Down here is Mexico." "First wave of the attack came disguised as a commercial charter flight." "Same way they did in Afghanistan in '80, only they were crack airborne outfits." "They took these passes in the Rockies." " So that's what hit Calumet?" " I guess so." "The missiles were a helluva lot more accurate than we thought." "They took out the silos in the Dakotas." " Key points of communication." " Like what?" "Like Omaha, Washington, Kansas City." " Gone?" " Yeah, that's right." "Infiltrators came up illegal, from Mexico." "Cubans, mostly." "They managed to infiltrate the SAC bases in the Midwest, several down in Texas, and wreaked a helluva lot of havoc." "They opened up the door down here, and the Cuban and Nicaraguan armies come walking right through..." "rolled up here through the Great Plains." " How far did they get?" " Cheyenne, across to Kansas." "We held them at the Rockies and at the Mississippi." "Anyway, the Russians reinforced with sixty divisions." "Sent three army groups across the Bering Strait into Alaska." "Cut the pipeline, came across Canada to link up here in the middle, but we stopped 'em cold!" "The lines have pretty much stabilized now." " What about Europe?" " I guess they figured twice in one century was enough." "They're sitting this one out." "All except England, and they won't last very long." "The Russians need to take us in one piece and that's why they're here." "That's why they won't use nukes any more and we won't either." "The whole damn thing's pretty conventional." "Who knows?" "Maybe... next week'll be swords." " What started it?" " I don't know." "Two toughest kids on the block, I guess." "Sooner or later they're gonna fight." "That simple?" "Maybe somebody just forgot what it was like." "Well, who is on our side?" "Six hundred million screaming Chinamen." "Last I heard there were a billion screaming Chinamen." "There were." "You got a family?" "I don't know." "They got caught behind the lines down in Texas." "I like to think they're alive, but" "I hear stories about what they're doing to civilians." " Colonel, get up." " What?" "We're taking off." "We're gonna go shoot up an armored column." "Let's go." "Early bird gets worm." "Early bird gets the worm!" "Watch those claymores in the trees!" "Matt, RPG!" "Good shot!" "Now what do you think?" "Not bad for a bunch of kids, huh?" "Your mom would be real proud." "You think you're tough for eating beans every day?" "Half a million scarecrows in Denver would give anything for what you got." "They've been under siege for about three months." "They live on rats and sawdust bread, and sometimes on each other." "At night the pyres for the dead light up the sky." "It's medieval." "All that hate's gonna burn you up, kid." "It keeps me warm." "Colonel?" "Are we doing right?" "You made a new friend." "Yeah." "She doesn't say much, does she?" "No." "Something happened to her." "DECEMBER" "All right." "Plane, plane, plane, plane." "Cuban bunker, Russian bunker, munitions dump, troop tanks." "Machine-gun bunkers here, here, here, and here." "Here by the drive-in screen are political prisoners." "We cause a diversion over here, cut holes in the wire here, fire on these machine-gun positions." "The B group comes across this area in a flanking maneuver." "When you reach this bunker, lay down grazing fire on this duffle-A." "I think that's pretty simple." " Anybody got any questions so far?" " What's a flank?" " A duffle-A?" " Yeah, what's grazing fire?" "I need a drink!" "Help!" "The "Wolverines" are attacking." "Follow me." "Quickly!" " Come on!" " Move it!" "Take it!" "Go!" "Come on!" "Get outta here!" " Come on, here's your chance!" "Move!" " We're all gonna die!" "Die standing up!" "Grenade!" "Children did this." "It's rebels." "What rebels?" "They're bandits." "Every time they shoot, the revolution grows." "I know." "I was a partisan." "And what are you now?" "Now I'm like you." "A policeman." "All right!" "All right!" "He's down!" "Great play!" "Are you OK?" "A little harder down on the ground, isn't it?" " Yeah!" " Come on, old man." "Oh, God, come down here!" "How old's your wife?" "How old's your wife?" "Eighty!" " What's she like?" " Old, like me." "What's she really like?" "Feisty, like you!" "Where'd you meet her?" "You really wanna know this stuff?" "Yeah." "I met her in a closet at a party." "I couldn't stand her at first, but once it took," "I loved her so bad it hurt." "You still love her like that?" " Are you playing or what?" " No!" "Fine." "They brought their kids." "They didn't have food enough to feed 'em through the winter." "They want to give 'em to you, Jed." "This is enough, Mr Mason." "I don't want any more." "You're a leader now." "They've heard of you on the other side." "Maybe all the way to California." "Some say they'll drop in some Special Forces in the spring to help you out." "Green Berets." "Spring's a long time away." "It's a lot of talk until then." "JANUARY" "It's ours!" "It's ours!" " How can you tell?" " It's ours." "Yeah!" "Fry 'em!" "Jesus!" "You gotta cross that." "Just part of it." "I hope our guys are still there." "So this is a battlefield." "It's real war, kid." "It's here every day." "Come with me, Jed." "You can quit now." "Could you?" "Don't give me that crap!" "Wake up in the morning, grow old." "Move it!" "Come on, move it!" "Let's go!" "Get down!" "Down, down, down!" "Stay down!" "He can't see us!" "He's looking for us!" "He sure is." "No!" "I can't stand it!" "Get down!" "Shut up!" "Get down!" "Run!" "Everybody get outta here!" "What are you doing?" "Goddamnit!" "They're coming up there!" "I got it!" "Get outta here, kid!" "There's a world of hurt coming down!" "I'm staying with you!" "Take him out with the RPG!" " It won't load!" " Sonofabitch!" "Give me another rocket!" "Aardvark!" "Eat me!" "No!" "Come on, buddies, come and get 'em!" "Shoot straight, for once, you army... pukes." "No!" "It's useless!" "He's dead!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Ever love anybody?" "I'll never love anybody again!" "If you didn't love anybody you'd never even be here." "Where are we gonna bury 'em?" "There's not much left to bury." "Oh, God." "These were good friends." "Take them away from here." "To someplace safe, where this world never happened." "And, as we remember, please let them forget, O Lord," "so they can be little again." "Amen." "Jed..." " Jed..." " What are you whispering for?" "It feels quiet." "You should get some sleep." "It's getting late." "I'm OK." "Kinda strange, isn't it?" "How the mountains pay us no attention at all." "You laugh or you cry..." "The wind just keeps on blowing." "It was bound to happen sooner or later." "Getting pretty lean on feelings, aren't you?" "Can't afford 'em." "Even if that had been me?" "I was talking to the group, Jed." "It doesn't look good." "They're all talking about quitting." "They've lost the stomach for it." "Except for Robert." " And you?" " I'm your brother." "Just make it count." "FEBRUARY" "Attention!" "Be seated, comrades." "What I despise most about warfare is the hypocrisy it often breeds." "I've heard euphemisms that we are containing the enemy, that our sector of pacification is growing." "These are the tactics of the lie." "Lies have the stench of death and defeat." "You can only win a war by exterminating the enemy." "Do you know who we are fighting?" "We are fighting Wolverines, small, ferocious animals." "For them, you need a hunter." "And you know, I am the hunter." "From this moment on there will be no further reprisals against civilians." "This is stupid." "Impotence." "Comrades, if a fox stole your chickens, would you slaughter your pig because he saw the fox?" "No." "You would hunt the fox." "Find where it lives and destroy it!" "And how do we do this?" "Become a fox." "Danny, your bolt's open." "It's jammed." "Danny!" "Hey!" "What if he does?" "You don't!" "We'd better get out of here!" "Shut up!" " What is this thing?" " What is it?" "Who's coming after us?" "Where are they?" "Rub a butt on him!" "Suck at you!" "Goddamn for you mother!" "I hear a chopper and I'm gonna blow your brains out!" "Go die, Yankee!" " Die!" " Goddamn you." "Gorsky, Stepan Yevgenyvitch..." "No one gives a damn who you are!" " They're gonna hurt him!" " Good!" "Hey, look!" "This thing's got an arrow!" "It's pointing." "It's..." "Where?" "Right here." "Where is it?" "Where is it?" "Goddamnit, where's the bug?" " They made me swallow it." " Daryl, what have you done?" "I went into town." "And got caught?" "And went and got caught!" " Why?" " Because you said we couldn't." "You told them where we were, didn't you?" "You told them!" "My father turned me in." "Oh, God, they did things you can't imagine!" "You sonofabitch!" "Do you want blindfolds?" " This violates the Geneva Convention." " I never heard of it!" "Dogface!" "I show you how Soviet dies!" " Seen it before, pal." " This isn't happening!" " Jed, let him go!" " Shut up, Danny!" " He was one of us!" " Shut up!" "He told them where we were!" "He did." "Now get your rifles." "No!" " What did you say?" " I said no!" "We're not doing it!" "Boy, say at me you are friend, so I will not die alone." "What's the difference, Jed, huh?" "!" " I'll do it." " Shut up, Robert!" "Tell me, what's the difference between us and them?" "Because we live here!" "Don't shoot!" "Don't shoot me, Jed!" "Don't shoot me, Jed!" "How many of those you got left?" "Four." "Ready..." "No, wait." "Stop!" "What do you say?" "You hungry?" "Yeah." "Go, Toni!" "Let's get it fast and get back to the rock!" "Come on." "It's been so long." "Quiet!" "Oh, my God!" "Holy shit!" "Stay down!" "Stay down!" "Let's go!" "Get on your horses!" " Let's get outta here!" " Move it!" "Come on!" "Erica, come on!" "Get on!" "Come on, let's go!" "Go on!" "Toni!" "Wolverines!" "I'm killed, Jed." "Don't let 'em get me." "They'll make me talk." "Where's your gun?" "I want you to do it." "I can't!" "I can't, Toni." "It's OK." "Give me a grenade." "I don't wanna be too cold." "Pull the pin for me." "Go." "I'm just gonna stay here and listen to the wind awhile, OK?" "Go." "Comrade Colonel." "I would estimate the enemy body count at..." "Twelve." "Wouldn't you agree?" "Twelve?" "Twelve?" "I saw only one." "But they carry off their dead." "Of course." "Why not?" "What do you think?" "All right, listen to me." "You two wait here until the troops pull back into town." "You'll know when that happens." "When they do, head out for the plains." " What about you?" " I gotta stick around." "Stir things up so you can make it out." " We're going with you, Matty..." " Listen to me!" "We're all that's left." "Somebody's gotta live, somebody's gotta make it!" "Me and Jed are all used up." "I'm never gonna forget!" "As long as I live," "I'll never forget!" "Don't." "Matt, you're never gonna know who won!" "Who will?" "We could make it, Jed." "We've done a lot tougher than this before." "We cause a diversion, get outta here, head back to the mountains." "I love you, Matty." "I know." "I love you, too, Jed." "It's hard being brothers, isn't it?" "Yeah." "Let's go." "I can't remember what it was to be warm." "It seems a thousand years since I was a small boy in the sun." "How did I come to this high, desolate place where there is nothing but loneliness?" "So much is lost." "I want to look into your eyes and forget." "It all seems so far away." "A warm house where my shadow never falls." "Your long, black hair in my hands." "There is no more revolution." "Only you to come back to." "I will post my resignation." "Come on!" "Let's go!" "They're attacking the station." "Everybody to the station." "Hurry, hurry!" "You lose." "You can rest now." "Just hang on, Matty." "Matty." "You OK, Matty?" "OK?" "Just hang on, Matty." "Daddy'll be here soon, Matty." "Hang on, Matty." "Come on, Matty." "Daddy'll be here soon." "Come on, Matty." "I'll hold you as long as I can, Matty." "I'll hold you as long as I can!" "You can lean on me." "I'm so tired." "So tired." "We're free now." "Free." "I never saw the brothers again." "In time this war, like every other war, ended." "But I never forgot." "And I come to this place often, when no one else does." ""In the early days of World War III, guerrillas, mostly children, placed the names of their lost upon this rock."" ""They fought here alone and gave up their lives so that this nation shall not perish from the earth."" "SEPTEMBER" "We've got Yankee tanks coming in from the plains." "We've lost most of our night vision and have only a few anti-tank missiles left." "Put your best men into hunter groups armed with RPG's." "Have your men dig holes 100 meters apart." "Wait until the Yankees approach to strike, then attack them in force." "Yes, Colonel Bella." "I want some anti-aircraft here." "We're working on it, sir." "This is a madhouse!" "Do you want to see me?" "Yes." "Go to the sporting goods store." "From the files, obtain form 4473." "These will contain descriptions of weapons and lists of private ownership." "OCTOBER" "Oh, how beautiful." "What is written here?" "You studied English." "Translate." "American history." "I know this well." "Arapaho National Battlefield." "Here was a great peasant uprising in 1908 of wild Indians." "They were crushed by President Theodore Roosevelt." "Leading imperialist armies and cowboys." "The battle lasted all winter." "More than 35,000 were killed." "It was the greatest battle of the American West." "Bravo!" "Yuri, stay here." "I'll take a photo of you." "African baboon." "Now you." "Come here, my friend." "Hurry up, you fool." "Look at me, Yuri." "Look what I've found." "An arrow." "An Indian arrow." "What a philosopher you are." "I did not know the Indians used steel." "Sure, you fool, they used the melted sabers of Federalist Cossacks." "Did these Indians work in plastic, too?" "You idiot, this is bone, polished to a high sheen." "There must be more." "Look." "Stop!" "What are you doing?" "Watch out!" "She has a weapon." "Stop, damn it!" "Quickly." "Catch him!" "Stop!" "Help me, comrades." "I'm dying." "God help me!" "God help me!" "From now on all troops are forbidden to travel outside secured areas in any group smaller than squad size." "Then call Bratchenko." "Tell him Sector Eight is now active." "Right away, Colonel Bella." "And I want some interrogations made, starting with the mayor." "I'm sick of his... pleasantries." "Consider it done." "Take gasoline." "Hey, girl, what are you doing here?" "Hey, beautiful, where are you going?" "Forget the broad - just get her stuff." "Where are you going?" "You're so beautiful." "Wait." "What's wrong with you?" "Let's get her!" "It's cut." "It's cut!" "I've seen this before." "Nicaragua, San Salvador," "Cambodia, Angola, and Mexico." "But these are my men!" "What is a "Wolverine"?" "A small animal, like a badger, but terribly ferocious." "It is also the name of the local school sports collective." "They're beasts, Ernesto." "You must kill every one of them eventually." "It's the same as Afghanistan." "They'll never stop." "Look, I was always on the side of the insurgents." "I have no experience in these matters." "But it would seem necessary to win the support of the people." "As our opponents used to say in Vietnam:" ""Win their hearts and minds."" "And they lost, Ernesto." "Of course, General." "Things are paralyzed at the front, Ernesto." "Morale is crucial right now." "Keep the men in the secured areas." "You'll see how they forget about these "Wolverines"." "Are you all right?" "You were saying, comrade?" "Shut up!" "What's going on here?" "!" "NOVEMBER" "DECEMBER" "Help!" "The "Wolverines" are attacking." "Follow me." "Quickly!" "Children did this." "It's rebels." "What rebels?" "They're bandits." "Every time they shoot, the revolution grows." "I know." "I was a partisan." "And what are you now?" "Now I'm like you." "A policeman." "JANUARY" "FEBRUARY" "Attention!" "Be seated, comrades." "What I despise most about warfare is the hypocrisy it often breeds." "I've heard euphemisms that we are containing the enemy, that our sector of pacification is growing." "These are the tactics of the lie." "Lies have the stench of death and defeat." "You can only win a war by exterminating the enemy." "Do you know who we are fighting?" "We are fighting Wolverines, small, ferocious animals." "For them, you need a hunter." "And you know, I am the hunter." "From this moment on there will be no further reprisals against civilians." "This is stupid." "Impotence." "Comrades, if a fox stole your chickens, would you slaughter your pig because he saw the fox?" "No." "You would hunt the fox." "Find where it lives and destroy it!" "And how do we do this?" "Become a fox." "Comrade Colonel." "I would estimate the enemy body count at..." "Twelve." "Wouldn't you agree?" "Twelve?" "Twelve?" "I saw only one." "But they carry off their dead." "Of course." "Why not?" "What do you think?" "I can't remember what it was to be warm." "It seems a thousand years since I was a small boy in the sun." "How did I come to this high, desolate place where there is nothing but loneliness?" "So much is lost." "I want to look into your eyes and forget." "It all seems so far away." "A warm house where my shadow never falls." "Your long, black hair in my hands." "There is no more revolution." "Only you to come back to." "I will post my resignation." "They're attacking the station." "Everybody to the station." "Hurry, hurry!" "SEPTEMBER" "We've got Yankee tanks coming in from the plains." "We've lost most of our night vision and have only a few anti-tank missiles left." "Put your best men into hunter groups armed with RPG's." "Have your men dig holes 100 meters apart." "Wait until the Yankees approach to strike, then attack them in force." "Yes, Colonel Bella." "I want some anti-aircraft here." "We're working on it, sir." "This is a madhouse!" "Do you want to see me?" "Yes." "Go to the sporting goods store." "From the files, obtain form 4473." "These will contain descriptions of weapons and lists of private ownership." "OCTOBER" "Oh, how beautiful." "What is written here?" "You studied English." "Translate." "American history." "I know this well." "Arapaho National Battlefield." "Here was a great peasant uprising in 1908 of wild Indians." "They were crushed by President Theodore Roosevelt." "Leading imperialist armies and cowboys." "The battle lasted all winter." "More than 35,000 were killed." "It was the greatest battle of the American West." "Bravo!" "Yuri, stay here." "I'll take a photo of you." "African baboon." "Now you." "Come here, my friend." "Hurry up, you fool." "Look at me, Yuri." "Look what I've found." "An arrow." "An Indian arrow." "What a philosopher you are." "I did not know the Indians used steel." "Sure, you fool, they used the melted sabers of Federalist Cossacks." "Did these Indians work in plastic, too?" "You idiot, this is bone, polished to a high sheen." "There must be more." "Look." "Stop!" "What are you doing?" "Watch out!" "She has a weapon." "Stop, damn it!" "Quickly." "Catch him!" "Stop!" "Help me, comrades." "I'm dying." "God help me!" "God help me!" "From now on all troops are forbidden to travel outside secured areas in any group smaller than squad size." "Then call Bratchenko." "Tell him Sector Eight is now active." "Right away, Colonel Bella." "And I want some interrogations made, starting with the mayor." "I'm sick of his... pleasantries." "Consider it done." "Take gasoline." "Hey, girl, what are you doing here?" "Hey, beautiful, where are you going?" "Forget the broad - just get her stuff." "Where are you going?" "You're so beautiful." "Wait." "What's wrong with you?" "Let's get her!" "It's cut." "It's cut!" "I've seen this before." "Nicaragua, San Salvador," "Cambodia, Angola, and Mexico." "But these are my men!" "What is a "Wolverine"?" "A small animal, like a badger, but terribly ferocious." "It is also the name of the local school sports collective." "They're beasts, Ernesto." "You must kill every one of them eventually." "It's the same as Afghanistan." "They'll never stop." "Look, I was always on the side of the insurgents." "I have no experience in these matters." "But it would seem necessary to win the support of the people." "As our opponents used to say in Vietnam:" ""Win their hearts and minds."" "And they lost, Ernesto." "Of course, General." "Things are paralyzed at the front, Ernesto." "Morale is crucial right now." "Keep the men in the secured areas." "You'll see how they forget about these "Wolverines"." "Are you all right?" "You were saying, comrade?" "Shut up!" "What's going on here?" "!" "NOVEMBER" "DECEMBER" "Help!" "The "Wolverines" are attacking." "Follow me." "Quickly!" "Children did this." "It's rebels." "What rebels?" "They're bandits." "Every time they shoot, the revolution grows." "I know." "I was a partisan." "And what are you now?" "Now I'm like you." "A policeman." "JANUARY" "FEBRUARY" "Attention!" "Be seated, comrades." "What I despise most about warfare is the hypocrisy it often breeds." "I've heard euphemisms that we are containing the enemy, that our sector of pacification is growing." "These are the tactics of the lie." "Lies have the stench of death and defeat." "You can only win a war by exterminating the enemy." "Do you know who we are fighting?" "We are fighting Wolverines, small, ferocious animals." "For them, you need a hunter." "And you know, I am the hunter." "From this moment on there will be no further reprisals against civilians." "This is stupid." "Impotence." "Comrades, if a fox stole your chickens, would you slaughter your pig because he saw the fox?" "No." "You would hunt the fox." "Find where it lives and destroy it!" "And how do we do this?" "Become a fox." "Comrade Colonel." "I would estimate the enemy body count at..." "Twelve." "Wouldn't you agree?" "Twelve?" "Twelve?" "I saw only one." "But they carry off their dead." "Of course." "Why not?" "What do you think?" "I can't remember what it was to be warm." "It seems a thousand years since I was a small boy in the sun." "How did I come to this high, desolate place where there is nothing but loneliness?" "So much is lost." "I want to look into your eyes and forget." "It all seems so far away." "A warm house where my shadow never falls." "Your long, black hair in my hands." "There is no more revolution." "Only you to come back to." "I will post my resignation." "They're attacking the station." "Everybody to the station." "Hurry, hurry!"