She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Page #6

...and Ulysses Simpson Grant, President

of the United States of America.

There's three aces for you!

- I kind of wish you had a full hand.

- Full hand? What do you mean?

Robert E. Lee, sir.

Wouldn't have been bad. Let's go.

Welcome home, colonel darlin'.

Your arm, Colonel Brittles.

You'll be surprised to know

that she and l...

Son, I knew it all the time.

Everybody on the post knew it,

above the rank of second lieutenant.

- Right, Mr. Pennell?

- One day I'll be first lieutenant.

Yeah, in 10 or 1 2 years.

Will you stay

for the dance, colonel?

You'll excuse me, Miss Dandridge,

I gotta make my report first.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you.

Thank you.

Here they are, the dogfaced

soldiers, the regulars...

... the 50-cents-a-day professionals,

riding the outposts of a nation.

From Ft. Reno to Ft. Apache, Sheridan

to Stock, they were all the same.

Men in dirty-shirt blue, only a page

in history books to mark their lives.

But wherever they rode,

whatever they fought for...

... that place became

the United States.

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