"In 1969, Richard Nixon was inaugurated president Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King had been assassinated the year before and the Beatles were still together." "Ralph and I were 19." "Two years out ofhigh school, and we owned the world." "Atleast, the 83-mile stretch from BartonState College home." "You know what freedom is?" "Okay, I'll tell you what freedom is." "Standing on the road with your thumb out you got no cares, no problems in your life." "You can go anywhere in the world." " I want to go home." " That's one place you can go." "Douche bag!" "Go to hell!" "I hope your tongue falls out." "Thank you." "Thanks a lot, you scum!" "You slug!" "Thanks a lot, you fucking mold!" " I told my mother I'd be there by dinner." " It's gonna be a late dinner." "All we need is a ride, Ralph." "Then we'll be home, I promise." "Goddamn it!" "Goddamn it!" "Something funny" "Give us a ride, you mother-humper!" "Give us a ride!" "Hey, Scott!" "Scottie!" "Eat this!" "There you go." "We should have stayed at college." "We could've gotten laid." "No, you could've gotten laid." "I've already decided, if nothing happens by the time I'm 20 I'm gonna cut it off." "How you gonna pee?" "Sitting down." "You think that's funny?" "You've sleptwith 13 girls, Ralph." "Fourteen." "You sleptwith that girl with the thingies in her hair?" "When?" "Last night?" "Shit!" "You want to get laid, man?" "I'm gonna help you out." "I'm gonna show you how easy it is." "The next car that comes down that road is gonna be the woman ofyour dreams." "Come on." "Look human." "Look human, okay?" "What do you want her to look like?" "I mean, name your requirements." " Alive and from this planet." " Okay." "Look, look." "Here she comes." "What's she like?" "Is she blonde, brunette?" "Has she got big boppers, little boppers?" "Come on, come on." "She's blonde, blonde." "Strawberry blonde, actually." "She's 28 years old." "She wants a younger man." "She wants it." "She wants it real bad." "Not bad enough to stop for us, though." " Shit!" "Did you see herface?" " She's beautiful." "She wants you." "Why do you think she stopped?" "Thank you, Jesus." "Thank you, Ralph." "I'm ready." "I've been practicing." "Hey, is something awfully funny?" "No, no, I just thought you were someone else." "Well, I'm not, I'mjust me." "Sorry." "Would you still like a lift, oram I too much of a disappointment?" " No, no, that'd be great." " Thanks." ""Let the sun shine" ""Let the sun shine in" ""The sun shine in" ""Let the sun shine"" "You got enough room?" "Yeah." "Thanks." "You're big, aren'tyou?" "How big are you?" "Aboutsix even." "Really?" "Is that hard orsoft?" "Hey, mister." "Marshall." "Call me Marshall." "I'm sorry." "I didn't mean to offend." ""Let the sun shine in, let the sun shine"" " Can I see it?" " What?" "I'll show you mine." "You can let us out here." "This is as faras we wanted to go." "You don't have to be rude." "It's my car." "I can do whatever I want." "No one touches my friend, you fucking homo!" "Sorry!" "I didn't know you were married!" "At leastwe got a little farther down the road." "What are you doing?" "Are you crazy?" "We're gonna need it." ""And on the third day, He rose again from the dead." ""And His countenance was like lightning, and His raiment..."" ""Go ye therefore, and teach all nations." ""I am with you always, even to the end of the world."" "Hey, Ralph!" "What's happening?" "Well, ifit isn'tJesusChrist and Mary Magdalene." "Hi." "Hi, Ralph!" "How are you?" "It's good to see you, wild boy." "Look atyou." "You look horrible." "How you doing, Dad?" "What brings you girls down here?" "Little brother." "Hi, Cottie." "AIden, are you a mailman?" "Yeah." "Here." "I got a special delivery foryou, right there." "Look atyou two." "Can hardly tell us apart." "How are you doing, Bethany Willow?" "Why can'tyoujust call me Beth?" "So youjerks took a shortcut." "I was about to call out the National Guard." "You should've." "We could have used the ride." "Look atyou." "I wouldn't have picked you up with a dump truck." "The '60s hadn't really hityet in ourlittle town in Maryland even though they were almost over." "I mean thatin the sense that nothing much had changed." "Notin my lifetime, anyway." "Hi, puppy." "What, do I live by myselfhere?" "Anyone gonnajoin me for dinner?" "Notyou." "Here you are, Happy." "Go on." "Kids, it's EasterSunday, forChrist'ssake." "Gonna rake the yard before you go back?" "No." "I've got to study." " You're gonna rake the yard, aren'tyou?" " On EasterSunday?" "Wrong." "Come on." "Cut it out." "Don't do that!" "Okay." " Peace." " Peace." "Mercy?" "Stop it!" "Goddamn it, stop it!" "Close your eyes while I pray foryou." "Dear Lord..." "Amen." "Go get 'em, AIden!" "Scottie?" "How's it going?" "Super." "I like your hair." " Yeah, I like yours, too." " Yeah?" " The superintendent's, huh?" " Yeah." "It's hard to imagine Dad ever being young like us." "Yeah, well, he might have been young like you." "He was neveryoung like me." "When he was my age, he was already married and had me." "He was in a hurry to get old." "That's not my trip." "I keep trying to picture myself getting out and getting married having a real job but I just can'tsee it." "So how's your love life?" "You getting any?" " Yeah." " Yeah?" " Yeah, I been doing that a long time now." " No shit?" " I didn't get laid till I was almost 20." " Really?" " That's a drag." " Yeah." "I guess I was on a slow trip." "Come here." "Get down here." "What do you think of my car?" " It's okay." " Yeah?" "Tell me the truth." "It's a piece of shit, AIden." "Well, it's yours." "I don'twant it." "Well, I'm giving it to you, Scott." "I don'twantyourcar, AIden." "Look, you can trade it in on something else then." " That's okay." "I like hitchhiking." " Then park the carand hitchhike." "Look, I'm trying to be nice to you." "Trying to make up for being a prick to me all my life?" "Scott, you're my only brother." "You know, you might have everybody impressed." "You come in here like some big hero in your little uniform and your little boy's haircut." "I don't buy it fora minute." "You haven'tsaid a goddamn word to me in three years." "You're only being nice to me "cause you're chickenshit about going to Vietnã"." "Shut up!" "Alden!" "Scottie!" " What are you doing?" " Nothing." "Just getting to know each other." "I was wondering if I could have that." "Yeah, sure." "You must be really proud ofyour brother." "Yeah, you want to come with me?" "Shoot a few Cong?" "No, it's not my war." "I don't care about it." " Is thatso?" " Yeah." "It's bullshit." "Apologize to your brother." "I'm sorry that it's bullshit." "It doesn't matter, Dad." "Everyone's entitled to his own opinion." "Not that kind of opinion." "We should get going." "I was thinking we could throw the football around." "The three of us." "You know." "Call Ralph." "Have a little fun." "I don't think we've got time, Dad." "You go ahead." "I'm not coming." " What are you talking about?" "Come on." " I have to run before it gets dark." "It might rain." "You exercise too much, Jessie." "You're gonna give us all a complex." "Just trying to catch up." "You folks go." "You'll miss the bus." "Aren'tyou gonna say good-bye to me?" "Marsha!" " You be careful over there, hotshot." " I will." "Don'tyou pick up anything you can't put down." "Ralph, I'll see you." "Send us a postcard from the Mekong Delta." "Yeah, I will." "Come here." "Listen, I don't know about the war because they don't give you a lot of time to think about it." "Butyou're right." "I'm a little scared." "Let's go." "It's time." "Bye, AIden." "I'll see you, Dad." "You give 'em hell, Butch." "You look like you could use a hug." "Don't die." "Don't die!" "Don't die!" "Bye-bye." "Those who have graduated you've got 3 weeks to report to your local board." "We need volunteers to march in Washington..." "This is our dream." "A beautiful, beautiful girl." "Kind of girl you'd die for or even marry." "Are you listening to me?" "You paying attention?" "Yes." "Who are we talking about?" "You know who Aldonza is?" "You don't even know who she is, do you?" "Okay." "Don Quixote..." "He's going off to fight the windmills with his faithful friendSancho." "He meets a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful girl." "That's Aldonza." "They fall in love..." "You haven't even read this, have you?" "I read part ofit." "It's got a lot of pages." " Where'd you get that?" " I had it from before." "I made it last." " Can I have a puff?" " Puff?" "You mean a hit." "A hit." "A hit." "What are you doing?" " That's mine!" " Thanks, man." "I know you!" " Why'd you do that?" " I'm saving your life." "Why did we come to college?" "To have fun, which I'm not having right now." "No." "To not get drafted." "That's why we came to college." "You want to go to Vietnam and getyourface shot off?" "Not particularly." " Are you trying to make me paranoid?" " No." "What are you gonna do when you flunk out and get drafted?" " I'm not gonna get drafted." " No?" "Good." "I heard a story about this guy who went in for his physical," "Put a candy bar up his ass." "And the doctorsays, "What is that?"" "And he says:" ""That's shit, Doc."" "Did he get out?" "Yeah, they don'twant any shit eaters in the army." "Okay, Ralph, you know, I don't have to help you." "But let me tell you something." "Lfyou flunk out and die in Vietnam that's the end of ourfriendship." "Fuck you, you know?" "I got a girl foryou out here." "Is he driving a white Edsel?" "No, it is a beautiful girl." "She's walking along all by herself." "Real poetic." "She's coming this way." "She's really cute." "She looks like Katherine Ross ora cross between Katherine Ross and my sister." "That's not bad." "Why don'tyou come down here?" "Show heryour weenie." " Hey, beautiful girl!" " Hey, baby, up here!" " Shit!" " It is my sister!" "Fuck!" "Hey, Beth!" "I don't know whatyou want to come toState for." " You're too smart." " It looks so exciting." "It does?" " Why, you don'twant me to come here?" " I didn'tsay that." "Did I say that?" "Here come my little brats!" "Oh, my God, look atyou two!" "Big dog." "How are you, buddy?" "How you doing?" " Did this one tell you?" " No." "What?" "Salutatorian." "Do you know what that means, Ralph?" " No, I don't know what that means." " What does it mean?" "She studies, you!" "What are these clothes?" "Is this what I'm paying for?" "No." "I got dressed up 'cause I knew you were coming." "You little doggie." "You little rat boy." "You give your mothera big hug before I spank you." " Mom, what are you doing here?" " I just came along for the ride." "Here, I broughtyou something." " Cookies." " Yeah." "Mom, I'm 19years old." "This isn'tsummercamp." "I just thought I'd bring you something." "Sorry." "I'm sorry." "Thank you." " Guess I don't have to worry aboutyou." " No, I don't think so." "Come on, you playboys." "You gonna take us old broads to lunch?" " You wantsome cookies?" " Here." "I'll take you to the vomitorium, and you can see whatyou've been paying for." "What's all this?" "Your basic antiwar touch football demonstration." "I justwant to ask three questions, then you can go back to sleep." "One:" "Why are we in Vietnam?" "Two:" "How many ofyou sweet-faced mothers' sons are dying to find out?" "And three:" "What are you gonna do about it?" " Take the building!" " Yeah!" "Beth!" " Get over here!" " Stop it!" "Shit!" "Let's get out ofhere!" "Stop!" " That's my daughter, you idiot!" " Stop it!" "Shit, man!" "Let him go!" "Police brutality!" "Mom!" "Butshe's my friend!" "Get out of my way!" " Leave me alone!" " Stop it!" "No!" "Stop it!" "Beth, it's all right." "Sweetheart!" "My God, are you all right?" "Stupid, stupid cops." "Stupid cops!" "Man, thatwas fun!" "We fought in the revolution, man." "You know what freedom is?" "School's out." "You putyour brains away for the summer." "You're grooving along in your own car, even ifit is a piece of shit." "Wind's in your hair." "You see a hitchhiker." "You stop!" "You pick the mother-humper up." "Hop in!" "We're not homosexuals oranything!" "I have been waiting here almost an hour!" "That's nothing, man." "It took me and my buddy here two days once to go 83 miles." "Isn't that right?" "Yep." "Now we're making up for lost time." "Did you ever take Driver's Ed?" "Acar is an expression of one's psyche." "I got a fucked-up psyche." "Don'tworry about it." "Hop in." "Where you going?" "Well, I wasn't going anywhere." "Is there anywhere you want to go?" "I guess I can go up to Baylor and see my sister." "You got it." ""With hit news as it's happening."" "Here's a lookat the headlines forSaturday,June14th." "President Nixon, meeting on Midway with Vietnamese presidentThieu says our boys inSoutheast Asia are coming home." "All right!" "Yeah!" "Thank you!" "Thank you, Lord!" "Thank you, Mr. Nixon." "That's bullshit!" "Lfwe're coming home how come I'm going over?" "I got a brother over there." "I just got a postcard from him." "See?" "He says it's not bad ifyou like thejungle and don't mind getting shot at." "Knowing my brother, he's probably taken over the whole place tellin' everybody what to do, including the Vietcong." "You know, I read somewhere yourchances of getting killed in Vietnam are less than yourchances of dying in a carcrash." "Would you shut up?" "Shut the fucking hell up!" " What?" " Please." "I'm sorry." " She don't like the way you're driving." " What?" " You're scaring her." " You're kidding me." "Yeah." "You're driving like a maniac!" "Shit!" "Why didn'tyou say something?" "You drive." "Lordy." "Maybe you could slow down to 100 orsomething." " Yeah." " Ralph!" "Slow down!" "Ralph, stop the fucking car now!" " Get out!" " Let me out." "Get out!" "I'll drive." " Here." "Come on." " What'd I do?" " What'd I do?" " You all right?" "Thanks for the ride." " Good luck over there." " Thanks." "There's something wrong in America." "I don't Know whatitis, but I'm scared." "There's something wrong when everybody's mad at everybody else." "There's something wrong when we don't understand what ourcountry's doing." "When we were little Kids, and too young to understand John Kennedy said, "Ask whatyou can do foryourcountry."" "And whom are we supposed to ask now?" "President Nixon?" "Hear, hear!" "Does he Know?" "Does he care?" "No!" "Afew weeks ago, down at BartonState there was a fight about the waring Vietnam." "And this boy fell against me, bleeding." "And now, like Lady Macbeth, I can'tseem to get the blood off." " Try using Ajax." " It's not funnyl" "My neighbor's over there." "He is my friend." "I don'twant him to die." "My otherfriends could go, or my own brotherl" "And for what, to win?" "Is thatwinning, when hundreds of American boys die week after week?" "If I were a boy, I wouldn'twant to go die forsomething that makes people so angry." "Would you?" "We already have bombs enough to destroy every organism on this planet." "Where will we be five years from now?" "Or20 years from now?" "We are supposed to be the future." "This is ourcountry." "What can we do?" "All right, Betho!" "What's that?" "Lucy in thesky With Diamonds." "Take it." "It's acid." " No." " Come on." "We'll getsome high-school graduates, and we'll ball 'em." "You only got three months till you cut offyour weenie." " Take the fucking pill!" " No!" "I took it." "I took it." " I can't believe you sometimes." " Come on, I don'twant to trip alone." "Great." "Some friend you are." "You growing up orsomething?" "Maybe." "You did good." " Thanks." "Thanks forcoming." " You're welcome." "Excuse me, miss." "Coach, how are you?" "I justwanted to say good-bye before you got run out of town." "Probably woke up some zombies around here." "What about this kid?" " Very interesting." "Congratulations." " Thank you." "Beth, itwas a lovely speech." "You made me cry, and you made me think." "And you!" "You look like a fortune teller." " How you doing, Dad?" " How'd yourfinals go?" "Finals." "I knew I forgotsomething." "I saw you." "You aren'tworking at the pool this summer?" "No, we're going on the road." "That's what hippies do." "You gotta live life while you've got it." "Did you see me?" "Yeah." "I'm trading in Alden's carfora van." "We'rejust gonna groove." "What's your brother gonna say about that?" "He'll probably freak out and kill someone 'cause he won't try to understand, the same as you." "This is the happiest day of my life." "Hi, honey." "How are you?" "What is it I'm supposed to understand?" "Me, Dad." "Fucking me!" "Watch your mouth." "Well, Jessie, I guess I'mjust like you now." "Our babies have left the nest." "We taught them how to fly, and they flew." "Ralph Carr." "Class of'67." "Five-time varsity letterman." "Graduated 158th in his class of 161 orsomething." "thankyou." "My sister Beth got all the brains in the family, but I'm ugly, so it all works out." "I didn't mean to flunk out, itjust happened." " He flunked out?" "Did he?" " I don't know." "So..." "Hey, mister, I want to talk to you." "Ralph, what are you doing?" "Come on." "Ralph!" "No!" "Don't!" "Stop!" "Ralph!" "Ralph!" " Did he flunk out, Scott?" " I don't know." "Keep him still." "Did you flunk out?" " Everybody be quiet." " Clear the gymnasium." "Everybody outside, please." "Ralph, sweetheart." " What's going on?" "What is this?" " Is he on something, Scottie?" "LSD." " You guys are on drugs?" " Is this the first time he's taken any?" " Maybe, I don't know." " Youjerk!" " I don't believe this." " Cliff, stop it!" "Come on, Cliff!" "What?" "What is it?" " I think we'd better get him to the hospital." " No!" " You're not gonna take my baby away." " Come on, Mom." "Let him go, Mom." "Cliff, would you bring Ev, please?" " Is he gonna be all right?" " I think so." "What's going on?" "Goddamn it, Cliff." "You owe me a hug." "This is us." "The leaves in the trees!" "Most people are mushrooms or toadstools or worms orsomething." "Butwe're leaves, you know, in the sky above all the roots, the dirt, the dog doo." "You get it?" "You know, us, leaves." "Like the Beatles, Bob Dylan." " The RollingStones, of course." " Yeah." "They are cool cats." "Yeah." "Probably Kurt Vonnegut." "Beckett." " Camus." " Camus, yeah!" "Yeah, definitely a cool cat." "Who is he?" "I forgot." " He was a writer." " Yeah." "Right." "I remember." "God!" "I read everything thatsucker ever wrote." "Yeah, so..." "Who else, man?" "The Kennedy brothers, even though they're dead." "Definitely leaves, especially Bobby." "And probably Eugene McCarthy CarlosCastaneda, Eldridge Cleaver." "Yeah, yeah." "And what about the Beaver?" "And what about Wally?" "Or no, he's kind of like a root, I guess, right?" "Probably a carrot." "Eddie Haskell would be basically dog shit." "Am I right?" "Yeah." "You're feeling better, huh?" "Yeah." "I think so." "You wanna go play around in the sand dunes?" "No, thanks." "Come on, Ralph, what do you say?" "Come on." "You sure you're all right?" "I'm great, I'm groovy." "Would you leave me alone?" "You sure?" "I OD'd one time I accidentally flunked out of college, that doesn't make me retarded." "I don't need a baby-sitter." "You go play in the goddamn sand dunes!" "Okay." "I'm sorry, okay?" "See you later." "Does my nudity make you uncomfortable?" "No, no." "Me, actually, I'm a little nervous about getting sunburned." "Ourfriend Ralph here loves to take his clothes offing public, though." "I do?" " That's right, you weren't there." " Yeah, I was tripping." "Would you like to trip now?" "No, thanks, no." "I'm trying to cut down." " You know, we're gonna change the world." " You and me?" "No, all of us." "People are gonna look back on 1969 and say:" ""That's the year everything changed." ""Got rid of all thatshit:" ""Prejudice, fighting, poverty, disease."" "They'll say itwas a year of miracles." "Scott Denny got laid." "Maybe." " Ralph Carr got drafted, died in Vietnam." " What's the matter with you?" " Why are you such a bummer?" " I did drugs." "I'm brain-damaged." "Better un-damage yourself." "This is oursummer, man." "It's the lastsummer ofinnocence." "It's the summer of the leaves, you know." "The wind will pick us up and take us wherever we want." "So where do you want to go, Ralph?" "Maybe we should go home?" "You know, my mother worries about me." "You are so weird." "It's notjust that." "Maybe we should think about gettingjobs." "Jobs?" "We're leaves, Ralph." "Leaves don't need money." "We have naked people giving us free food." "Look, maybe I'm not a leaf, okay?" "Maybe I'm a rabbit orsomething." "I was thinking that I might go home." "You don't have to take me." "I'll hitchhike." "They might be looking for me." " Who?" " The draft board." "They're not gonna find you here." "Ralph, I'm not gonna ever let them draftyou, okay?" "I mean, you don't have to worry about that." "Hey, guys." "Just kidding." "All right." "Home sweet home, motherfucker!" "Hi, Marsha." " Hi, Ralph!" " Hey, Marsha." "Marsha, give me a balloon here." "Here, Happy." "Hi." "I'm back!" ""Dreamin' in the night"" "Scottie." "Hey, Beth." "Scott!" "Scottie!" "Hi, sweetheart." " How are you?" "How you doin'?" " Good." " Where's your partner?" " He's out doing American Bandstand." " Great." "Go on." "Cream your dad." " I will." "Look who it is." "My gypsy son." " Get tired of the Crusades?" " No, we missed our moms." "And as soon as you do your laundry, you're going back on the road." "Right?" "Maybe." "What's going on?" "What's wrong?" "They seem to have misplaced your brother." " What?" " Missing in action." "Okay." "Now, if anybody comes, take the van." "You get the hell out ofhere, you promise me?" "No." "Look, it's notyour problem." "There's no reason foryou to get in trouble." "Let's go." " What are we gonna do now?" " Window." " Where'd you learn to do that?" " Mission:" "Impossible." " Jesus!" " Fuck!" "Here." "Would you hold this, please?" "You don'twant to be an accomplice?" "You're already standing in shit." "I'll write a note saying you're innocent." "Breaking and entering a federal building, that's real innocent." "You have any better ideas?" "No." ""1949.Aberon, Lawrence Michael."" "You remember him?" "Guy who had teeth like this?" "Remember him?" ""Albertson, Arnett..." ""..." "Austin..." ""..." "Caminski." Shit." ""Carr." "Ralph Maurice Carr."" "Everything about me." "This is embarrassing." ""Process notification." What the hell does that mean?" "It means UncleSam wants you." "Too bad." ""D..." "Denny." ""Scott Clifton Denny."" " I don'twant it." "Forget it." " Why?" "Your number's gonna come up, too." "You can'tstay in college forever." "You'll wind up like your brother!" "I don'twant it!" "Put it back!" "What the hell do you think you're gonna do with yours, anyway?" "I'm gonna feed it to the dog, and then I'll feed him yours." " No, that's not gonna work, man." " Yes, it is." "No." "My whole life, you've been saving my ass." "Now I'm gonna save yours." "Ralph, they're gonna know we took them." "We'll be the only ones missing." "No." "We'll be missing." "We won't exist anymore." "Get it?" "All right." "We'll burn this place down." "Give me the lighter." "Give me that lighter." " You can't do that!" " Give me the goddamn lighter!" "I ain't gonna letyou die." " Give it to me!" "It's my lighter!" " Get the fuck away from me!" "Don't piss me off." "Youjust pissed me off!" "It's mine!" " How come you're not at the pool?" " I was looking for my dog." " You lose your dog?" " Yeah." " She lost her dog." " You want us to help you find him?" "It's okay." "I can find him." " You sure?" " Yeah." "Happy!" "Come here, boy." "Somebody's down there." " You got the keys?" " Yeah." "Shit!" "Come on." "We got to get out ofhere." "You don't have to clean up!" "Let's go!" " Go!" " You go!" "Go, asshole!" " Shit!" " Fuck!" " Do you see anything?" " No." " What's going on here?" " We heard someone, but they got away." "Goddamn it." "Who's in there?" "It's Ralph Carr." "Hi, Ralph." "It'sJunior Roberts." "What are you doing?" "Nothing." "What are you doing with my son, Junior?" "Let him go." "He was poking around in his draft papers." "What?" "What ails you, Ralph?" "What is the matter with you?" "Goddamn it!" "I didn'twant to go to Vietnam." " Why?" "Why?" " Cliff." "I don't even know what it's about." " Where isScott?" " I'm right here." " Hey, Scottie." " I was with him, Junior." "He's lying." "He wasn't in there." "I was, too." "My folder's on top of the desk." "You see any otherstuffin there?" "He's trying to protect my brother." "He was in the van the whole time." " Arrest him." " What are you saying?" "His brother is over there risking his life for ourcountry." " We don't even know ifhe's..." " He's dead!" " Scottie." " What did you say?" " He's not dead." " He's missing." "That means he's dead." "Liar!" "You are a goddamn liar!" " Daddy!" " Don't keep pushing me!" "They're good boys, Cliff, Alden and the rest of them." "My own boy, you know, he'll never be the same after being over there." "We all just better think about itsome." "Mrs. Denny." "Mrs. Carr." "You're no longer welcome in my home." "I'm sorry, Mom." "Don't take it personally, okay?" " Come on." " Okay?" "Beth, let's go." " No, I want to stay." " Get in the car right now." "Come on, Happy." "Get in the car." "Sorry, pal." "Itwas fun, man." "Remember those 14 girls." "I told you I balled?" "I lied about 10 of them." "And two of them were really bad news, but the other two..." "Wow." " Hi." " Hi." " I thoughtyou might be out here." " Yeah." "How's life in the real world?" "Fine." "My mother's drunk." "Your parents aren'tspeaking." "Thank God things are back to normal." "God, thatwas pretty wild today." "Bonnie and Clyde ride again." "Yeah." "Beth." "It's okay." "What are you gonna do?" "I don't know." "Gotta get the hell out of this town." "I could go with you." " Thanks, kid." " I'm not a kid." "I think you're really beautiful, Scott." "You're the most beautiful person." "I've ever known." "Yeah, well, you haven't really been outside of Culloch County." "What about me?" "I think you're really nice, Beth." "I meant do you think I'm beautiful oranything?" "Yeah." "You know so much." "You're so good, pure, and..." "Shut up!" "I'm not talking about my mind." "My mind isjust getting out ofits cage." "What am I, like, rat girl?" "No." "You're a lot prettier than I thought." "You're very pretty, Beth." "You're beautiful, okay?" "You could tell me about all the stuff, about the leaves and everything ifyou want." "No, it's..." "It'sjust a stupid idea I had." "Actually, it's not thatstupid." "It'sjust thatsome people understand." "Some people don't." "Oryou could make love to me." "The LEM footpads are only depressed in the surface about one or two inches." "Although the surface appears to be very fine-grained as you get close to it." "It's almost like a powder down there, it's very fine." "Okay, I'm gonna step off the LEM now." "Roger, we copy." "Pretty good littlejump." "Hon!" " That's one small step fora man..." " On the moon!" "...one giant leap for mankind." "What's all this?" "It'sjuststuff." "Itwas in the refrigeratorand now it's not." "It's my goddamn mess, I'll clean it up." "I think I might go fora walk." "Will you be okay?" "I was thinking that I could wake up in the middle of the night and I could hear my three little men snoring away." "You with yourcute little whisper of a snore." "And Alden with his deviated septum sounding like a horse." "AndScottie all intense and impatient." "And I'd think:" ""Who are these people?" ""I mean, this is an insane asylum."" "But I couldn'tsleep until I heard all three ofyou." "Now I neversleep." "I walk down the hallway listen atyour door." "I don't hearanything." "Don'tyou sleep?" "I just hope Alden isn'tsuffering." "I'd rather he be dead than suffering." " We can't lose hope." " Yes, we can." "It's our hope." "We can lose it ifwe goddamn want." "Are you mad at me?" "No." "I don'tseem to feel anything." "Magnificentsight out here." "Magnificent desolation." "God bless you, Neil, Buzzy." "God bless you, kid." "Beth!" "Happy is not happy!" "Who's out there?" "Cliff?" "Thatyou?" "What are you doing up so late?" "You want to come in?" "You shouldn't drink so much." "You should drink more." "Come on, relax, Cliff." "It's the Age of Aquarius." "Come on." "I see them!" "I see them on the moon!" "Here's a picture of the President of the UnitedStates." "Scottie." "You scared me." "Yourfather's not here." "I'm sorry about Dad." "I'm sorry, too." "Sorry, sorry, sorry." "It's a sorry time." "I don't have to leave." "I can stick around ifyou want me to." "No, you go." "You go." "That's what I'd do if I could." "I'd get faraway from here, where it'ssafe." " You go, you hear?" " Okay." "Get going." "I don't have to worry aboutyou." "Ralph." "Hey, Ralpho." " One hundred." " Ralph, Beth's here." " What are you doing?" " Pushups." "He does them all the time." "Yeah, gotta stay in shape so I can kill in the name of democracy." "They probably won't take you now." "You're a criminal." "You'll have to go into politics orsomething." "Yeah." "My pal, ScottShakespeare, he's got ajoke for every occasion." "You got a problem, he'll write a poem about it." "Ralph, what is the matter with you?" "I wanna go." "Get it over with." "To hell with it." "How's Mom?" "She's okay." "She's gonna come see you." "Yeah?" "When do you think?" "Around Christmas?" "I'm really starting to feel unpopular here." "You folks are gonna have to get going." "Ralph, I was thinking of going back on the road." "If that's okay with you." " With me?" " Yeah." "Yeah." "Great." "Groovy." "I mean, I'd be pissed offifyou didn't go." "Beth's going with me." "Did you ball my sister?" "Is that it?" "This guy bailed my sister!" " You fuck!" " All right." "Come on." "Get him out ofhere." "He's no friend of mine." "Ralph." "You don't understand." "I'm sorry." "Come on." "Are we in a hurry orsomething?" "Yeah." "Where are we going?" "To Canada." "Come on." "Come on, boy." "Hi." "Where are we?" "Either heaven or Maine." "I'm too tired to know." "Pretty, huh?" "So that'sCanada." "It doesn't look that bad." "I'm not going with you, Scott." "What?" "It's not over there." "It's inside of us, or it doesn't exist at all." "I don'twant to run away." "Okay." "Fine." "You're not gonna get drafted and die forsomething that nobody believes in." "No." "Fuck you!" "Lfyou died, I would die, too." "My father died when I was 11 years old." "I know what it's like to lose someone you love." "I wantyou to stay with me and fight!" "We have to make people understand that it's wrong." "You folks crossing over?" "You could havejust gone." "It's a free country." "Come on." "Come on!" "Alden Palmer Denny is the first boy from Culloch County to die in Vietnam." "Let us wish him Godspeed and peace and pray that he'll be the last." "Amen." "Amen." "I said something to my brother one time." "That this wasn't my war." "I guess I was wrong." "It's everybody's war." "I'm sorry, AIden." "My father over there has got medals in his closet to prove that he fought in a good war." "And I'm proud of my father even though he doesn't like me right now." "I don't believe that this is a good war." "That's all Ralph was trying to say." "That's all my brother ended up saying, too." "Itseems there's really nothing you can do about it, though." "I mean, that's whatyou hear on the news." "It'sjust the way it is." "You can disagree!" "You can say that it's not right!" "That's what freedom is!" "I'm going down to the courthouse now to try and get my friend out of jail." "And I guess you'rejust gonna have to shoot me, Junior, but it's a protest!" "A protest against this." "Anybody who would like to come with me you can." "Get the hell off the road!" "Hey, man." "In November of'69 327 of us from Culloch County including my father, marched in Washington along with 700,000 otherAmericans to protest the waring Vietnam." "This film is dedicated to all of us, dedicated to peace."