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you had no choice.

Those damn pansy

demonstrators

will never

understand.

Don't talk about it.

It was insane

over there.

Sometimes I wish...

I wish I'd...

When I got shot

in the foot,

I could have laid down.

Who gives a f*** now

if I was a hero or not?

I was paralysed,

castrated that day. Why?

'Cause I was so s...

stupid.

I have my dick and my balls now

and I think...

I think, Timmy,

I'd give everything I believe in,

everything I got...

all my values

just to have

my body again,

just to be whole again.

But I'm not whole.

I never will be,

and that's...

the way it is,

isn't it?

Ronnie...

it's your birthday.

You're alive.

You made it.

Smile.

Syracuse, New York,

our next stop.

Oh, where have you been

My blue-eyed son

Oh, where have you been

My darling young one

I've walked

and I've crawled

On six crooked highways

I've been out in front

Of a dozen dead oceans

I've been 10,000 miles

In the mouth

of a graveyard

And it's a hard

It's a hard

It's a hard

It's a hard

It's a hard rain

That's gonna fall

Who did you meet

My blue-eyed son...

Those long letters

I wrote you

from over there?

Crazy stuff, huh?

That's all right.

I had to say everything

I couldn't say

when we were growing up.

They were

beautiful letters.

Yeah?

Yeah.

I wasn't too sure

about the spelling in them.

Who cares

if you can spell?

There was...

There was a lot of feeling

in the words.

I'm so sorry for what happened

to you, Ronnie.

My mom called me

at school and told me.

I was just

so shocked.

L... I wanted to...

reach out

and help you.

But...

it was just

so frustrating,

I just...

stood in the hallway

of my dorm room shaking.

I couldn't

say anything.

Donna...

uh, they need you

over at Locklin.

I can't right now,

Jeff. Later.

Well, don't forget

about the meeting.

Yeah, 9:
00?

Yeah. Thanks.

I'm sorry.

You're real busy, huh?

We've got this Kent State

demonstration tomorrow.

I'm on the organizing

committee.

Kent State.

I heard about that.

It was... Jesus...

terrible.

It's terrible.

When I saw that girl

lying in that pool of blood

at Kent State,

I kept on thinking

of that poster

of the children

that were killed at My Lai.

And I kept on thinking

about you over there...

and all the boys

who've died,

who've sacrificed

their bodies and...

and their minds.

The war is

so wrong, Ronnie.

It's so wrong.

I just had to

do something.

We don't need arms

We need hands to hold

And we don't need bombs...

Strike now,

shut it down!

Strike now,

shut it down!

Strike now,

shut it down!

You know, Ronnie,

I'm not saying that you are,

but if you have any feelings

against the war,

you could really help.

I mean,

you've been there.

You know

what it's like.

You could tell people

what's happening,

and they'd really

listen to you.

Remember the prom?

Moon River

Wider than the sea

My huckleberry friend...

Remember that?

Yeah.

Moon River for me

Boy, was I crazy

that night.

I just had to dance with you

before I went in.

It was like I knew.

I made a promise to myself

that I would come back

and love you

forever.

Donna.

Hey, Donna.

Yeah?

The Reverend

can't make it tomorrow.

What?

He can't make it.

Oh.

What can we do?

Who can we get?

Just let me think.

I'll see you later.

Better hurry.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Ronnie, I got to...

I got to go inside.

Do you want to come?

No, I don't

think so.

O.K.

O.K.

Maybe I'll

hang around.

Maybe we'll

talk later.

All right.

I'll see you later.

1, 2, 3, 4!

We don't want

your f***ing war!

1, 2, 3, 4! We don't want

your f***ing war!

1, 2, 3, 4!

We don't want your f***ing war!

All right! Wow!

It's great to be at free

Syracuse University!

We're really getting

an education now, aren't we?

Right on, man!

Right on!

Right freaking on!

Yesterday I was at

Brooklyn College...

NYU... they were

both closed down!

Over 200 high schools

are closed down.

Over 400 universities

are closed down.

It'll be twice that number

by the time...

This is an unlawful

assembly.

If you do not

disperse...

The people that killed

the kids at Kent State

have names like

General Waste-more-land!

Spiro Agnew!

Tricky Dicky Nixon!

Wait for the command.

And then we go

to Washington,

confront the war makers

in their own house!

On to Washington!

On to the White House!

I loved

this country once.

And all this

I won over there.

Check it out...

Purple Heart,

Bronze Star,

all the commendation

medals,

all the rest

of that garbage.

It don't mean a thing.

F*** this...

sh*t!

This is war!

I said this is war!

They just killed two brothers

at Jackson State!

Stand by to gas!

Take them down!

What's going on?

Get out!

Get out of here!

Get out of here!

Get back! Get back!

Donna!

The whole world's

watching!

The whole world's

watching!

The whole world's

watching!

The whole world's

watching!

The whole world's

watching!

The whole world's

watching!

The whole world's

watching!

Donna!

Now, when I was just

a little boy

I stand up

to my daddy's knee

My papa said, son,

don't let the man get you

The way that

he done to me

'Cause he'll get you now...

He says...

No, he'll get you...

My machine breaks down,

and they're ready

to cut my leg off.

And that's what the guy...

Now, that's what the guy

in the hospital said.

He said, "You can

take your Vietnam,

and you can stuff it up your ass,??

He said.

That's what it's

about in Vietnam.

Hey, Mel!

Double shot of rye,

beer chaser,

sweetheart!

They ain't fighting

the war to win, anyway.

They should

just bomb Hanoi

and get the boys

the f*** out of there.

Four corner hard way.

F***in'-A.

Vietnam.

Vietnam.

They ought

to write a song

about something

that gets under your skin.

Remember Del Shannon?

Runaway?

As I walk along

I wonder what went wrong

To our love

A love that was so strong

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa

I'll tell you

what went wrong

It was f***ing Vietnam

It was the wrong f***ing war.

Timmy, it was

the wrong f***ing war.

Take a shot, will you?

You can take

your Vietnam,

and you can shove it

up yo' f***in' ass!

You shove it

up your ass, pal.

Is everybody

supposed to feel sorry

because you're in

a f***ing wheelchair?

You ain't the only

f***ing Marine here.

I was on Iwo Jima.

We lost 5,000 men

the first day.

Don't cry in your

f***ing beer to me.

Now, you served

and you lost.

You got to live

with it.

You're a Marine, man.

Semper fi.

Picked them.

They didn't pick you.

Quit your f***ing

pissing and moaning.

Timmy, Timmy,

who is this a**hole?

I don't know.

Leave it alone.

I think guys...

like you...

are dumb f***ing a**holes.

That's what I think.

I bet you do, you sorry

son of a b*tch.

'Cause you know

if they win,

if they win it,

you'll be the first

against the wall.

You know you can't trust

a f***ing traitor.

Call me a f***ing traitor?

If you weren't

in that chair...

I am in this chair!

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