Revolution Page #7

Fire.

It's all clear, Pa.

They're all down.

Lie down in green pastures.

Don't leave me, son.

-He leadeth me beside the still waters...

-I'm dead.

...and restoreth my soul.

You're not, son. Don't leave me.

You've got drummers' luck.

Don't leave me.

Be brave, son. Be brave.

He leadeth me beside the still waters.

He restoreth my soul. He leads

me in the paths of righteousness.

For his namesake.

Yea, though I walk through the

valley of the shadow of death...

...I will fear no evil,

for thou art with me.

Thy rod and thy staff,

they comfort me.

I've got him dead, Pa.

You do, Ned.

Don't leave me, son.

Don't leave me.

No.

I ain't gonna do it.

It gave me great

comfort to know...

...that he could not kill an unarmed

and praying enemy face to face.

For going from boy to man

in this long ride of hate and killing...

...has made many a fighter

savage and unheeding of that.

We, the right or the wrong,

are all flesh and blood...

... with minds and souls...

...hopes and dreams.

We best go home.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on, lad.

Come along, son.

Come on.

Up, up, come on.

And two flags.

One of surrender,

the other of stripes and stars...

...claiming a fresh-born,

independent country.

It gives rise to my heart to see it.

What a struggle has ended.

The cruelty, sadness of it, finished.

And strange though to say...

...seems the grass underfoot

as I walk feels different.

I look to the sky...

...and see the smoke of war

drifting away on the wind.

And all who suffered stand now

on the beginning of a new horizon.

I with them.

Two for you.

Twenty dollars? That's it?

Right. Next.

Come on, come on.

Don't be all day, mister.

" Boats and providence, 1776."

Well, you've had this a long time,

haven't you?

All right, 10, 20, 30, 40.

That's it. Come on, next.

What do you mean?

Wait, wait, where's the rest?

-What rest, mister?

-Seventy dollars.

They've been devalued. That's all

them old continentals is worth now.

Will you take it or leave it?

Move, you're holding up the queue.

-Don't be pushing me.

-I'm not pushing. I'm very busy.

-What happened to the 150 acres?

-What you complaining about?

I'm not complaining.

I'm asking a question.

What happened to the 150 acres

I was promised?

You got two arms and two legs

and two eyes, haven't you?

Now, move on,

I'm very busy.

-Right.

-I told you to keep your hands off me.

-You're holding the line.

-I'm asking you.

-You're holding the line.

-I'm asking you.

What happened to the hundred

and fifty acres of land I was promised?

It was sold by Congress to speculators

to pay for the war debt, all right?

-Now, move it. Are you?

-I'm the bloody war debt.

This chit here, that's a bloody war debt.

We're all the bloody war debt.

-So why don't you go to Congress?

-Yeah.

Don't tell me.

You go to Congress and you tell them.

-I'll tell you, because you're standing here.

-Next.

I'm not interested in talking to you.

Next.

Where's this Congress

you're talking about?

-Congress is coming.

You go and tell them. -Where?

-Where are they coming?

-They're on their way.

-When?

-They're coming, damn you.

-I told you they're coming.

-Damn you.

Go on, get out.

All these men here,

we all fought for something, and we got it.

You think I didn't fight?

You take it from us,

we're gonna fight again.

I'm taking nothing from you.

You open your mouth to Congress.

-Did you get the money?

-Forty dollars, that's it.

-That's all?

-That's all they're worth.

-And the hundred and fifty acres?

-It's gone to the speculators.

All of it?

Where's that leave us?

You take the Hudson

to the Mohawk trail.

Then up as far as she goes.

Tonti says there's farmland

out west for the taking.

You go settle like your dream, son.

So, what, you ain't coming?

I can't, Ned.

I should stay here.

It's good for me here.

Things for me.

I can learn to read.

This is what I want, Ned.

It's what I want.

I'm gonna miss you, Pa.

I'm gonna miss you bad.

Here, take this.

-I don't need it all.

-Oh, you do.

Bella's gonna need

more than one skinny cow.

Take care.

God be with you.

-Don't forget no good tunes.

-I won't, Tom.

Goodbye, Tom.

Whoa.

You name your kids for your old friends,

Ned.

I'll make you proud, Pa.

-You tell them about me.

-I will.

How we fought.

I will, Pa.

Tell them how far we come.

My lost family comes back to

me in all these I see before me.

I feel Kaitlyn in the young ones on high

released from all they suffered here.

I see also in these shining faces...

...the bright-eyed, tender and

gentle face of Daisy McConnahay.

Many from different lands,

be they exiled or fled...

...from want of respect and free thought,

now share a home...

... where as one or all,

they will have a voice that can be heard.

No more to be divided

into the lowly and privileged.

But equal in chance and opportunity.

And all the children of all the children

to come will know of this word: revolution.

And what it meant...

...and never let down

their will to protect it.

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