A Bright Shining Lie

(# Jefferson Airplane: Somebody To Love)

# When the truth is found

# To be lies

# And all the joy within you dies

# Don't you want somebody to love?

# Don't you need somebody to love?

# Wouldn't you love somebody to love?

# You better find somebody to love

(Explosion)

# When the garden flowers

# Baby are dead

# Yes and your mind, your mind

# Is so full of red

# Don't you want somebody to love?

# Don't you need somebody to love?

# Wouldn't you love somebody to love?

# You better find somebody to love

# Your eyes, I say your eyes

may look like his

# Yeah but in your head baby

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

# Don't you want somebody to love?

# Don't you need somebody to love?

# Wouldn't you love somebody to love?

# You better find somebody to love

# Tears are running

# Running down your breast

# And your friends, baby

# They treat you like a guest

# Don't you want somebody to love?

# Don't you need somebody to love?

# Wouldn't you love... #

(Man) Ready, aim, fire.

Ready, aim, fire.

Present arms.

(# Last Post)

(Quietly) Excuse me.

(Man) I had come to say goodbye.

Vietnam tore us apart.

We went there believing

in freedom and democracy

but somehow we lost our moral compass.

How did we let it happen?

A decade ago things seemed

so much clearer.

(# Chubby Checker: The Twist)

# Come on baby

# Let's do the twist

# Ooh-wah-wah

# Come on baby

# Let's do the twist

# Ooh-wah

# Take me by my little hand

# And go like this

# Ooh

# Ee-aw

# Round and around... #

These are extraordinary times

and we face an extraordinary challenge.

Our strength, as well as our convictions,

have imposed upon this nation

the role of leader in freedom's cause.

It is a contest of will and purpose

as well as force and violence and,

in that contest, we cannot stand aside.

(Man) Gentlemen, to West Berlin

and next year Moscow.

- (Men) Moscow.

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

Oh, Vann, you wanna tell me what the hell

you did so wrong to pull Vietnam?

- I'm gonna see combat, boys.

- A bunch of gooks with shotguns.

- Hey, those gooks beat the French.

- Ooh, beat the French.

- Who hasn't?

- Mark my words, gentlemen,

- Vietnam is the war of the future.

- (All) Ooh. War of the future.

- Right.

- (Gl) Oh, man.

(Chatter)

- Howdy, darling.

- Hi.

Same again for me

and my constituents over there.

- Right. Two whiskeys, two beers.

- And a Coke, please.

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

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

What else don't you do?

- Keep the change.

- Thank you.

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

# That I was such a fool... #

Oh yeah.

# I didn't know

# Love could be so cruel

# Oh, ho, ho, ho #

(Dog barks in distance)

- Hey, I bought you some flowers.

- What's to celebrate?

I got it. I got it.

The Pentagon? You...

Vietnam. Vietnam.

(Laughs)

Vietnam? W-Well, what happened

to Washington?

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

You know what happens in a war?

Guys like me get promoted.

Now I can fight my way to the top.

Oh, we are going to Washington...

but I'm going as a soldier,

not a goddamn clerk.

Oh...

Wait a minute, John,

you kind of smell like perfume.

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

- Oh.

Baby, this is the chance

we've been waiting for. This is it.

(Shouting)

- Enlisted men over here.

- Yeah, tell 'em to hustle.

- Enlisted men, over here.

- Saigon, over here, in the trucks.

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

- Vann, John P, Lieutenant Colonel.

Colonel Vann. Colonel Vann.

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

I was supposed to be

on yesterday's flight. I missed it.

- That flight crashed, sir.

- Well, I'm glad I missed it.

Go ahead, take that Jeep right there, sir.

- Steve Burnett, the Times.

- Go ahead.

Hey. You're a lucky man.

You should be dead.

I should've been dead long before yesterday.

What's your name?

- Er, Steve Burnett, Times.

- You don't say? You need a ride?

- Sure.

- Hop in.

- Welcome, Colonel.

- Thank you.

Do you mind getting in the back, soldier?

I like to do my own driving.

Let the man from the Times sit up front.

Just point me in the right direction.

(Burnett) An exotic little war

in an Asian paradise,

that's how one of my colleagues described it.

After the French were defeated in 1954,

Vietnam was divided between

Ho Chi Minh's Communist north

and the southern regime of Ngo Dinh Diem.

The Communists launched

an insurrection to capture the south,

so America sent 11,000 advisors

to bolster Diem's army.

(John) Look at this place.

Man, this is a place worth fighting for.

Can you imagine what it's gonna be like

if the Communists get it?

(Burnett) God, look at that.

- (John) Where'd they get all the water from?

- They terrace the fields at different levels

and they have a bunch of canals

and dikes and bring it all down.

- That's fantastic.

- Yeah.

Gentlemen, each one of you

will be assigned to a division

of the South Vietnamese army

to act as our senior advisor.

The South Vietnamese soldier

is a magnificent fighter,

highly motivated, tough, and intelligent.

The body counts given to this office

are nothing short of remarkable.

Just take a look.

Theirs is a splendid effort

and it is our job to support 'em.

I know you're all experienced soldiers

but we have been sent here as ad-vi-sors.

Their President Diem is decent

and God-fearing, our God, by the way.

He is emphatic that this is a war between

the legitimate Vietnamese government

and their Communist invaders.

Now we all know that Red China

and Moscow are behind this, huh?

So we have every right to supply

and support these people

but it is their fight and they are in charge.

So give them your best

cos they are giving us theirs.

Colonel Cao?

(Soldier shouting in distance)

(Man speaking Vietnamese)

- Sir.

- Lt Colonel John Vann.

- Er, Frank Drummond, sir, S-2. Ron Dray.

- Sergeant.

- Sir.

- What the hell's going on here, Major?

Well, er, this is just

a little positive thinking, really.

Let me introduce the division

commander, Colonel Cao.

- Colonel.

- Welcome.

- Welcome, Colonel Vann.

- Thank you.

Yesterday we killed many, many VC

but they take some of the body away.

Still, I must send photo to my president.

It is good for morale, no?

Come, let me show you my command.

(Man shouts in distance) Careful with it.

- How many men are attached to your division?

- About 500.

- Impressive.

- Yes, we have a very strong fighting force.

Thanks to your government's assistance,

we are arming the people to fight beside us.

- Soon you and I will defeat the Vietcong.

- I look forward to it, Colonel.

(Announcement in Vietnamese)

- Good morning, gentlemen.

- Morning, Colonel. What's going on?

- We have important intelligence.

- Frank, what do you got?

A village elder is confirming

a Vietcong instructor

has infiltrated and is training new recruits

right here at this village.

- OK, what's the plan?

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