Born on the Fourth of July Page #9

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a good time.

It's going to be O.K.

- You like?

- Yes.

Hey, man, Kovic.

How was it?

How was it?

Ai yi yi yi

Did you get one?

Did you get two?

Look out!

Banzai, motherf***er!

She loves you,

right, tiger?

Thanks a lot.

It was great.

Just remember,

keep one hand on her tits

and the other hand

on your wallet.

Paradise!

Right, man?

Whoo!

Can I see this?

I'll rip your f***ing eye out

and skull-f*** you, motherf***er.

You ever been skull-f***ed?

You ever been skull-f***ed?

Yeah, I'll do it, man.

I'll do it, motherf***er.

It don't mean a f***ing thing.

I'll be here tomorrow.

You couldn't keep me away

with a baseball bat.

I'll be here for sure.

Vietnam.

So...

we get married

today, no?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

That would be great.

Yeah.

Hi.

Want to f*** me? Huh?

I'll give you

a blow job.

Hey, mister,

you want me?

60 pesos.

Let's go.

Aah!

"Dear Mr and Mrs Wilson...

"I don't... I don't know

how to tell you this.

"I knew your son

in Vietnam.

He was, uh...??

I'm going to kill that f***ing guy.

I got him once.

I'll kill him now.

You'll see.

I'm serious.

Your body.

I'm just going

to f***ing kill him.

JMs!

I'll f***ing kill you!

I'll kill you,

b*tch!

You can't talk to me

like that!

Hey! Charlie!

Get out! Get out!

The b*tch thinks it's funny

I can't move my dick!

F*** her.

I'll kill you, b*tch!

F*** all you

Mexican motherfuckers!

JMaricn!

You don't like it,

get out!

F*** you!

Hey!

Don't touch my friend.

Don't you touch me!

Get the hell out!

Don't come back no more.

I wouldn't be here if

it weren't for that f***ing war!

F*** you!

F*** all of you!

You sure you told him

the right place, man?

I told him f***ing Villa Rosa!

Villa Rosa?

Villa Rosa!

Villa Rosa, seor,

Villa Rosa.

Beautiful place.

Great whorehouse there,

man.

Wait until we get there.

Beautiful women with big tits,

small tits...

That goddamned slut.

That Mexican scumbag c*nt.

I think I saw a sign,

Villa Rosa, Charlie,

10 minutes ago.

How far you going,

taco head?

Qu pasa?

Wasn't that turn back there...

that sign that said "Villa Rosa"?

Look at the meter!

It's rigged!

He's rigged the f***ing meter!

Hey, a**hole!

Hey, I told you

f***ing Villa Rosa!

What are we

going to do now?

F*** them.

Yeah, sure.

How we going to get out of here?

F*** them all.

F*** the whores.

F*** the cab drivers.

F*** Mexico.

F*** Nixon, f*** Vietnam,

f*** them all.

But how we going

to get out of here?

They made me

kill babies, man.

Little gook babies.

You ever have

to kill a baby?

Yeah. O.K., come on.

We'll get a ride.

We got to get back

to the villa.

F*** you!

What do you mean, O.K.?

What do you mean, O.K.?

You ever have to kill

a little gook baby?

What the f*** do you know

what I did?

I didn't think so.

I didn't think so.

You're full of sh*t.

No, you are.

Leave me

the f*** alone!

You're nuts.

The sun

is going down.

We got to get

out of here.

Don't sh*t me, Kovic.

You never killed a baby.

You never had to.

You never put your soul

into that war,

never put your soul

on the line.

How the f***

do you know?

Maybe I killed more babies

than you did, you f***!

Maybe I did,

but I don't have

to talk about it!

Why not?

Why the f*** not?

What are you hiding?

What are you,

better than anybody else?

You a hero, maybe?

Got a bunch of f***ing medals,

but deep down

you're full of sh*t!

You never fought.

You weren't even there.

What the f*** do you mean,

I wasn't there, man?

Come on, hero,

come clean.

Why should I?

What are you hiding?

You're the one that's hiding

here in Mexico.

What are you hiding from,

you whiny f***?

Don't sh*t me!

You never killed anybody, anything,

did you, Kovic?

Did you?

Ever look at yourself

in the f***ing mirror?

- F*** you.

- You.

No... you!

F*** you!

No, f*** you!

Get off me!

Hola, seores.

Qu pasa aqu?

We need a ride.

O.K.!

JVmonos!

You O.K., man?

F*** you.

You're full of sh*t.

You don't get it.

You don't get it.

You had a town once,

Charlie,

and a mother and father.

Things that made sense.

Do you remember

things that made sense,

things you could count on,

before we all

got so lost?

What are we going

to do, Charlie?

What am I going

to do, man?

What am I going to do?

Where you from, Wilson?

Venus, Georgia.

Georgia?

This is my second tour,

and I haven't seen

a Georgia boy get it yet.

Yeah?

Yeah,

I know about Wilson.

Sir, I think I might

have killed him, sir.

I think

I killed him.

I don't think so.

You don't have to worry

about them dogs.

They won't bite.

Y'all get away now.

Get on away!

It's all right.

It's all right.

They're probably just

afraid of that chair.

Mr Wilson, I'm Ron.

Thanks for, uh,

for seeing me.

Any friend of Billy's

is a friend of ours.

Well, uh, why don't you

come on in the house?

My wife fixed some chicken,

if'n you want some.

Yes, sir, it was

a real nice funeral.

Marine Honour Guard came

all the way down from Atlanta

in their fancy uniforms.

Fired their rifles

up in the sky.

Thank you.

The drums was beating.

'Course it was nothing

like the big war

100 years ago

down here.

But there was Billy

and Bruce... Bruce Crabtree...

Andy Henderson.

And the Rutledge boy,

Lance.

Yeah, Lance.

He was a nice boy.

For the life of me,

I still can't quite

figure that war out.

Why we had to go

all that dang way to fight it

and why's we had to lose

so many young men.

Can't figure it out.

But we got a proud tradition

here in this town.

Billy's great-grandfather

was at the First Bull Run.

My pa was

over in France in '18.

Don't forget, you were

over in the Pacific in '44.

Guadalcanal.

Is that right?

Yeah. Well, I guess

this family's fought

in every war that, uh,

this country's ever had.

I reckon we're ready

to do it again

if'n we have to.

'Course they never did know

what done happened and all.

There was a letter

from a colonel,

I think it was.

Colonel Moore.

That's right,

Colonel Moore.

He said there was

a bad ambush one night.

Said that Billy distinguished himself

in the fighting.

He also told us that

Billy died real quick.

That's good

that he died quick.

I was

his squad leader.

I didn't know Billy

real well.

He was new,

kind of quiet.

We didn't talk much

to new guys.

He was 19,

is that right?

That's right, 19.

Only son?

Yes, sir.

My only boy.

I think he said

he was married

and you were pregnant?

I remember

the day he was killed.

Uh... it was a strange day.

We were out on patrol

near a beach area...

and, oh,

it was very confusing.

There was screaming

and firing.

Uh...

It was getting late,

and there were

these children, uh...

these babies...

that we killed

by mistake.

How awful.

And then it...

got really crazy.

And we had to pull back

because the NVA

were coming up on us.

And we got scattered

in the dunes.

People were yelling

at anything,

firing at anything.

And that was when it...

it happened.

I was, uh, confused...

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