"Hey, Horn." "What's the matter?" "You don't look like you're too happy about going back to the firebase." "Pulling detail in the rear for two days is not my idea of a vacation." "I know what you mean." "No, you don't, sir." "You spent most of your time in that nurse's hooch." "I was doing research, Horn." "I was checking the latest poop on the medical treatment for the natives." "With all due respect, sir," "I think you took the cure for yourself." "Horn, you all right?" "Yeah." "Calhoun?" "Yeah!" "Pointer?" "Pointer!" "Pointer, can you hear me?" "Pointer." "Calhoun!" "Get him out of here." "I'll put out the fire." "And get the first aid kit." "Pointer, take it easy." "You're gonna be okay." "The fire's out." "My leg!" "My leg!" "You're gonna be okay." "I'm gonna take care of you." "Something's messed up inside." "You're gonna be okay." "Don't worry." "Don't worry." "We need some hot water." "We need some help." "Don't worry, man." "I got you." "I got you." "Aah!" "Lieutenant!" "Calhoun, you watch him." "Lieutenant, what's wrong?" "What's wrong?" "Get away!" "It's in my eyes!" "Here's some water!" "Horn..." "I'm right here." "I can't see." "I'm blind." "Lieutenant, move!" "We've got to get out of here." "How many are there, Horn?" "I don't know, Lieutenant." "Can you move?" "I'll hold onto you." "Calhoun, get Pointer's arm around your neck and carry him as best you can." "He's all screwed up!" "I'm not leaving him!" "Move!" "I'll cover you." "Calhoun, take him." "Come on, Lieutenant." "We've got to stop." "This is killing him." "Calhoun, get Pointer in the hooch." "Take the LT." "I'll cover." "Horn, let them come to you!" "Just stay down, Lieutenant!" "Here, sir." "How's Pointer?" "Bad." "Just keep him company." "I've got to go back out there." "Yeah, yeah, go." "Horn?" "It's me, Lieutenant." "They got Calhoun." "Oh, man." "How are your eyes?" "I can't see anything." "It appears to be chemical." "It's just gonna be temporary." "I've seen this kind of burn before." "You're gonna be okay." "Yeah." "Yeah." "What about the VC?" "How many did you get?" "Did you get them all?" "I'm not sure." "Even if I did, there's gonna be a whole lot more coming." "Lieutenant, we can't afford to stay here anymore." "We've got to move." "Yeah, the blind leading the maimed." "Oh, God!" "Please help me." "Take it easy, soldier." "Take it easy." "Take it easy." "So hot." "Water." "Horn and I are here." "We're not moving you, man." "It hurts so bad." "Shh." "I'm so cold." "I wish I could help you." "Here's the water." "I don't think he's thirsty anymore." "Maybe he's better off this way." "What's that?" "It's a mezuzah." "It's a... religious symbol, like St. Christopher, except for Jews." "I'm sorry, Pointer." "That's all I remember." "Is that a prayer or something?" "Yeah." "It's called the Kaddish." "It's a Hebrew prayer for the dead." "You know, I was starting to think" "I was the only Jew in this war." "Stay down!" "VC." "I'll get them!" "What do you know?" "Come on, lady!" "Stop or I'll fire!" "Dung lai!" "Dung lai!" "Dung lai!" "I'll be damned." "Horn?" "Is that you?" "It's me, sir." "Me and one prisoner." "Great." "Just what we need." "What's the matter?" "You don't like me?" "You little..." "Lay off, Horn!" "The way she laid off the others?" "Man, you are blind because of her!" "That's not the point." "Did you say "her"?" "Yes." "You've enough c-rats to make it through the day." "Both your canteens are full." "Your rifle's loaded and ready." "Lieutenant, please." "Please come with me." "Horn, we've been through all this." "We'd just slow you down." "Yeah, but I've got a bad feeling about this." "What if the VC come back?" "I need a medevac for you..." "That's why you've got to get out of here as soon as you possibly can." "To get us a medevac." "Yes, sir." "Shut her up, will you, please?" "Gladly." "You know, if she had one of us on this leash, she'd be dragging around a corpse." "Yeah." "How are your eyes, Lieutenant?" "I..." "I mean... what's it like?" "It's empty." "I can see shades of brown and gray." "There's a little bit of light, though." "I guess that's a myth." "I guess that's because it's temporary, right?" "Yeah." "Go on." "Get out of here." "Now." "Yes, sir, Lieutenant." "Good luck." "If you harm my friend," "I swear..." "I swear I'll hunt you down and kill you myself." "Horn, get the hell out of here, now!" "Hello." "Welcome to the waiting game." "I'm your host, Myron Goldman." "I guess you don't understand that, do you?" "Hey." "Take it easy there, partner." "Now, I'm going to take this off, but we're going to be real quiet so we don't have to put it back on, aren't we?" "Real quiet." "Shh." "Now, I wish you'd tell me what the hell you were trying to accomplish back there." "You let me in on that, and I can tell the parents of the kids you killed." "I don't know what you want, but whatever it is, the answer's no." "Is that a name?" "Li Kiem?" "Fang ha." "Fang ha." "That means yes." "I understand." "I see." "Hey!" "Who the hell is that?" "Damn you." "Damn you!" "She's coming back, isn't she?" "Huh?" "You may not understand this, but I'm gonna wring your little neck until you do." "You're getting me out of here." "I take you, GI." "I take you." "You understand English?" "Huh?" "Yes." "Well, you understand this." "Look at me." "I'm blind because of you, and my men are dead because of you." "Right now," "I'd love to blow your brains out." "You want me to?" "No!" "Huh?" "No." "All right." "From here on out, you're my eyes." "Now, you get up and you get me out of here." "Move!" "All right." "There's the sun." "We go south." "That's where my people are." "I didn't know" "English was part of the VC drill." "Where'd you learn it?" "In Hué." "You're a college girl, huh?" "Looks like you take your ideas pretty seriously." "My father went to prison for his ideas." "He loved his country, but American puppet government destroy him." "He not fight back, and he lose everything." "I will not make the same mistake." "You already made a mistake." "You're a prisoner." "You just may lose everything." "Maybe not." "The college kids back home would love you." "American students very brave." "Risk very much for people forces." "Yeah, they're real brave." "You don't get locked up in the United States for speaking your own mind." "But you would like to lock them up." "No." "I believe in freedom of speech." "You people are the ones who want everybody to think alike." "Old Mao and Stalin killed anybody that didn't buy the party line, didn't they?" "Huh?" "What is it?" "It is an injured man and his family." "They need food." "Yeah, well, what do I look like?" "The Salvation Army?" "Who are they?" "Talk!" "It is a liberation fighter." "You mean it's a VC?" "That's your word." "Has he got a gun?" "He has nothing but two hungry children and a wife." "He's sick." "He's got enough food?" "None." "Okay." "Okay." "That's your food." "Yeah, I know, and it's all I got." "You tell them there's food in that pack, then we get out of here before I change my mind." "GI..." "What'd he say?" "He said thank you." "Yeah." "That was kind of you." "Yeah, yeah." "It's the American way." "Do one good deed every day." "Arrogance is American way." "Just kidding." "You know, joking?" "But it's really the way you people are." "You go all over the world, throw your money around, then act like everything belongs to you." "Look, all I did was give some people some food." "One of them was VC." "For God's sake..." "But your whole history is full of nothing but imperialist conquests." "You kill your Indians, keep your blacks under yoke of oppression, take land from whoever you want." "Is it not the truth?" "Yeah, some of it's the truth." "We do a lot of other things too, and I haven't done any of those." "But you come to Vietnam, kill my people, turn country into big brothel." "Yeah, well, you collect taxes so you can buy bullets." "You couldn't fight this war without us." "So arrogant." "With all your money and machines, you'll still never win war." "We fight to last man." "You'll never kill us all." "You may be right." "I am." "What is it?" "What is it?" "I thought I heard something." "What?" "Maybe soldiers." "Yours or mine." "Come on." "What is your name, GI?" "Goldman." "Lieutenant Goldman." "Nice of you to ask." "Be careful." "There are rocks and things." "Help me!" "Help!" "Help me." "No!" "I swear to God, I'll pull you in on top of me." "You knew it was there, didn't you?" "No!" "Didn't you?" "You lying little bitch." "I swear to God, if I wasn't blind, I'd kill you right now." "Go ahead!" "Kill me!" "No." "I'm gonna take you back and let ARVN Intelligence have a field day with you." "Now, get up!" "Get up!" "Now, you're gonna take me out of here before your VC buddies come and find out what that shot was all about." "Move!" "Keep going." "I could move faster if you'd untie my hands." "You'd do a lot of things if I untied them." "Ow!" "I was just starting to trust you too." "Damn it." "Don't be stupid." "I'm your prisoner." "It's my duty to escape any way I can." "Once you turn me over to those puppet soldiers," "I'm dead." "Good." "That's what you deserve." "How do you know what I deserve?" "Is this your country?" "No, it's mine." "Oh, it's yours, it's theirs, it's everybody's." "I don't give a damn." "All I know is my men are dead, and you killed them." "And you killed my comrades." "A small farm." "A goat, some chickens." "Do you eat live chicken?" "Right now I'm so hungry," "I could eat anything." "A good soldier learns to forget hunger." "Yeah, yeah." "You see anyone down there?" "No one." "All right." "Now, we're gonna move in down there real slow, and you're gonna find us some food." "I hope I find more liberation fighters." "You do, and you're not gonna have any lunch." "Let's go." "Hey!" "What are you doing?" "He don't like VC." "Hey, man, that makes two of us." "Now, you ask him if he's seen any GIs." "He don't like your people, either." "All right." "You tell him to give us some food and we won't hurt him." "You just give us some food, right now." "Right now!" "What are you doing?" "He walk away." "You didn't even know." "He could have shot you." "What's wrong with you?" "I need to sit down." "This better not be a trick." "I've got to get some food." "Hey, uh, Papa-san." "Papa-san!" "Hey, Papa-san." "We need some food." "Very hungry." "Please." "Chop-chop." "He wants us to leave." "He's got to have something extra." "Please." "Chop-chop." "Please." "What did he say?" "That we should go." "I know he said a lot more than that." "He fought... both the Japanese and the French with his rifle." "Then both our sides come, destroy his village, kill his family." "He won't feed us." "I don't blame him." "Come on." "Let's go." "Come on, let's see some of that iron Cong willpower, huh?" "What did he say?" "He'll give us some food." "Hang on." "Use your finger." "Haven't eaten in a while, huh?" "That guy really hated us." "I could feel it." "He still feed us." "Yeah, even though we're his enemies." "Doesn't that make you feel something?" "The revolution need food." "The revolution?" "Give me a break." "The guy did something that went way past any revolution." "He's just being a decent human being." "Everyone can't afford that luxury." "You know what your problem is?" "You're a slave to your own ideas." "You could walk past the beautiful sunset in the world, and you'd never even see it, because you'd be flapping your gums about revolution and politics." "You enjoy your beautiful sunset, rich American." "Political indifference is the reason you're here." "That's what's going to kill you." "Maybe, but just for a second there," "I thought I felt that VC hate slip away, or was that just your stomach growling?" "I've eaten enough, GI." "I'm not cold." "Yeah, but now you're an American target, just like me, for any of your buddies that might be following us." "If you're lucky, Charlie will aim low." "So we both die by my army?" "Or live by mine." "Giddy-up." "I can hear the river." "Which one is it?" "Song My." "Good." "We're going in the right direction." "All right." "We cross here." "Come on." "Come on." "It's very wide." "Song My is not that deep." "My hands are tied." "You can walk across it." "Come on." "I can't swim." "You guys are real well-trained, aren't you?" "It's all right." "It's all right." "It's all right." "It's all right." "It's not that deep." "I got you." "Calm down." "Where are you?" "Where are you?" "It's all right." "It's all right." "It's all right." "Calm down." "Calm down." "Calm down." "Relax." "That was the middle." "That was the deepest part." "It's all right." "Okay." "Come on, come on." "I can see." "Oh, my God." "I can see." "Hey." "I can see." "I can see!" "Hey!" "You helped the hungry family." "Now you help me." "Please." "You can see me." "Well, things are still a little blurry." "That water must have done something." "I'm bleeding." "I'm dying." "I'm gonna get you some help." "Why?" "So they can torture me for what I know, then kill me?" "No." "Because you're a human being... and so am I." "Oh, man." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Wait for me!" "Hey!" "Hey, wait!" "What in the hell are you doing out here, soldier?" "We hit a booby trap." "We lost everybody." "Who are you?" "Spec 4 Horn." "Bravo Company." "We were running." "We hit VC." "I left the Lieutenant back there." "He's blind." "We have to go back there and find him." "We'll try, but we've got to pick up a recon team that just made contact." "Come on." "All right, you guys." "Let's go." "Come on." "We're moving out." "Your soldiers must be only a few kilometers from the next village." "My army's somewhere between." "Go alone." "Forget it." "I'm not gonna leave you." "The liberation forces are still behind us." "Your only chance is to run." "Then we run." "You don't think I'm worth it, right?" "Nah." "I was just thinking about how much things have changed." "I'm still your enemy." "You don't look like much of an enemy." "But I am, Goldman, and if we get back, we'll still kill again." "You're dragging us to our death." "I'm doing the best I can, okay?" "So you take orders from your heart." "Here, that makes you a fool." "You know what I saw back there?" "A Vietnamese family." "There was a kid... and a mom and a dad." "They were all dead." "If they had been alive, they may have killed you." "No." "They were just a bunch of lousy farmers." "You know?" "I mean, it could have been your guys." "It could have been my guys." "All I know is the first thing I saw when I got my sight back was a dead family." "That's the way it is here." "We didn't start the war." "It just turned out that way." "Our sides fighting?" "Yeah." "Everyone except for us." "We had our fight." "I lost." "I'm still not safe yet." "You leave me here." "I can't." "You need help." "I'm dying." "Remember where we had our fight and you lose your men?" "Yes." "I lose my man too." "Please... leave me here... with my land." "My people." "Enjoy the sunset, Goldman." "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Come on!" "Man, am I glad to see you guys!" "Captain, we're wasting time." "We have to find the Lieutenant!" "We're on our way." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Set it down!" "Set it down!" "There he is!" "Lieutenant!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "He can see!" "I knew you'd make it!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "I knew you'd make it!" "Come on!" "What happened?" "Where's the girl?" "It's too long a story, Horn." "Just too long."