Destination Tokyo Page #5
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- 1943
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a man with education and charity...
...who used to send my ma
what to eat with.
Him, they stood up against the wall.
And that sticks in here with me.
The difference between
them and us...
...is, with us even the no-good
gets a chance to die in his own bed.
So I don't forget my uncle.
An American flier gets killed,
I think of my uncle.
I see pictures of Chinese kids
getting bombed, I think of my uncle.
A Russian guerrilla gets hanged,
I think of my uncle.
I see Mike lying in there dead,
I think of my uncle.
I ain't got room in here
to see one of our guys get buried.
Not yet. Not until I've done
something to even the score.
So I eat with it, and I sleep with it.
So be sore at me, you dopes.
- I'm sorry, Tin Can.
- Attention.
At ease, men.
- Trying to figure out about Mike?
- Yes, sir.
Well...
...officers and men on submarines
are closer together...
...than in most branches of our Navy.
Mike was with me on my first patrol.
He was my friend. I know his family.
His wife's a fine, great-hearted woman.
I know his kids.
I remember Mike's pride when he bought
the first pair of roller skates for his boy.
They were the finest roller skates
that money could buy.
Roller skates for a 5-year-old.
Well, that Jap got a present too,
when he was 5.
Only it was a dagger.
His old man gave him a dagger, so he'd
know what he was supposed to be.
The Japs have a ceremony
that goes with it.
At 7, a Jap kid is taking marches
under an army instructor.
At 13, he can put a machine
gun together blindfolded.
As I see it, that Jap started on the road 20
years ago to putting a knife in Mike's back.
There are lots of Mikes dying right now.
And a lot more Mikes will die...
...until we wipe out a system that puts
daggers in the hands of 5-year-old children.
You know...
...if Mike were here to put
it into words now...
...that's just about what he died for.
More roller skates in this world.
Including some for the next
generation of Japanese kids...
...because that's the kind
of a man Mike was.
- What's that you're reading?
- San Francisco telephone directory.
- I collect names.
- What do you do with them?
Oh, just meditate. Wonder what kind
of people go with the names.
- Wonder what the names mean, that stuff.
- Names don't mean nothing.
- Oh, no?
- No.
- Well, my name's Wainwright.
- Wainwright. So what?
Well, my grandpa used to build wagons.
A wainwright's a guy who builds wagons.
- Like covered wagons?
- Sure.
Maybe he built some
wagons crossed the plains.
Some grandpas built houses.
Name's Carpenter.
Some grandpas made clothes.
Name's Tailor.
Some guy's grandpa built wheels
for my grandpa's wagons.
Name's Wheelwright,
a guy who builds wheels.
Sun lamp ready in the forward room.
Come on, GI sunshine.
Don't tell me the captain
finally gave up that sun lamp.
Phone books are fascinating.
I'm nuts about them.
Personally, I use phone books
for long shots.
In San Diego, I had nothing to do
and nothing on my mind...
Except skirts.
So I sees this phone book.
I flip it open. I come to a name.
Rosalie Riley.
"Pretty name," I says to myself.
"I wonder what she's like."
- So...
- So you call her up.
No. Why waste time?
I go right out to her house,
21 Valley Road.
Never forget it.
Had roses all over the place.
Very pretty. Very pretty indeed.
- Red and pink roses...
- Now we're going to pick roses.
I pick a rose. So I got something to talk
about when she comes to the door.
Up I go to the door.
I ring the bell. And I hear
a very nice voice from the inside.
"Wait a minute," she says.
"I'm in the bathtub."
Every girl you meet is in the bathtub!
I haven't met her yet. I'm on her porch!
Naturally, I sit down.
I'm rocking back and forth,
back and forth.
Skip the details.
Who cares if you're rocking?
I'm just trying to give you the picture!
We got the picture!
You're in the bathtub!
She's on the porch!
She's in the bathtub.
I'm on the porch!
She comes to the door.
My stomach flutters.
- She's beautiful!
- Now his stomach flutters.
"Oh," she says, "I thought you were
someone else." "Disappointed?" I says.
You're there
with a snappy comeback.
She says,
"I can't ask you to come in."
"Of course not," I says, giving her pearly
teeth. "But I can ask you to come out."
What did she say to that?
Well, she didn't say anything,
that is, right away.
Then I proceeded to pour
on the personality.
Then what did you do?
Now, wouldn't you like to know?
You give me a pain in the pancreas.
Stow it for the rest of this patrol.
Some of us have sweethearts.
Yeah?
Well, maybe some of us haven't.
Hasn't he been telling the truth?
No. You haven't been swallowing
all that stuff, have you?
Captain.
Oh, this it?
I'm afraid to take a look.
Just hope it won't be Coney Island.
Well, I got on my lucky sweater.
What's the bearing?
Zero-five-zero, captain.
Smack on the button. Take a look.
Right down Fujiyama's throat.
Nice work, Andy.
Check your tangents.
Lieutenant Raymond
to the conning tower.
Attention, all hands.
We're lying off the Japanese mainland.
Thought you'd like to know.
Just like the postcards, huh?
You get a better look inside the bay,
captain.
By the way, you think you can
get inside the net?
- That's what orders say.
- What about minefields?
- Can you see them underwater?
- Nope. I wish I could.
But if you do get in, how are you
going to get the ship out?
This is a sort of blind date, Raymond.
- We have to wait and see what happens.
- Got my tangents, captain.
Okay, Andy. Down scope.
We'll break out a chart
of the probable minefields.
Well, boys, looks as if
we have to wait for a ticket in.
This is going to be like waiting
to have your first tooth yanked.
Checking the gravity, captain.
How'd you happen to volunteer
for the submarine service, captain?
Well, when I was a kid...
...I used to get a kick
out of swimming underwater.
How's your wife feel about
your shoving off on these patrols?
The way the wives of all the men
in the services feel.
- Did she know what she was getting into?
- Not when she met me.
She was a blind date.
Not quite the same as the date
we've got ahead.
It was dark. I couldn't see
what she looked like.
- You find out what she looked like?
- Yes.
You see, we have two kids by now.
I meant that night, sir.
No.
But I found you didn't need to know
what a girl looked like to like her.
I liked her voice, the things she said,
the way she laughed.
Still do.
I like the way she is with our kids.
I like everything about her.
- What made you pick the Navy, Raymond?
- Well, I was born and raised in Tokyo.
Tokyo, Japan?
- You speak Japanese?
- Yes, he does.
- We expect to make good use of it soon.
- Let's hear some.
I'm sorry, captain.
I thought there was a Jap
loose onboard ship.
It was Mr. Raymond.
There was a democratic movement in Japan
after the last war. What happened?
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