1:54:01
I see.
1:54:02
So i went up the hill,
1:54:04
up around that-a-way,
1:54:05
then worked my way
down the ridge
1:54:08
to a place
where they was flanked
1:54:09
and couldn't
show themselves without being hit,
1:54:12
so they finally give up.
1:54:14
How many
did you kill?
1:54:16
I don't
rightly know, sir.
1:54:19
I think
captain danforth
1:54:20
is familiar
with that, sir.
1:54:22
We counted about
20 bodies altogether up there.
1:54:24
What were your men
doing all this time, corporal?
1:54:27
I couldn't
just answer that, sir.
1:54:28
I was pretty busy,
and i reckon they was, too.
1:54:31
According
to the statements of the others,
1:54:34
they were guarding
the prisoners
1:54:36
and couldn't
expose themselves
1:54:37
to the fire
from the ridge.
1:54:39
All right,
gentlemen.
1:54:40
That's all,
corporal.
1:54:46
Oh, uh, corporal...
1:54:47
there's something
that i'd like to know.
1:54:51
Yes, sir?
1:54:51
That night
that you reported
1:54:53
back to me
at camp gordon,
1:54:55
you told me
you were quite prepared
1:54:57
to die for your country,
1:54:59
t not to kill.
1:55:00
What made you decide
to change your mind?
1:55:04
Well, sir...
1:55:05
of course,
if you'd rather not tell me,
1:55:08
why, that's quite
all right.
1:55:09
I'm as much agin
killing as ever, sir,
1:55:12
but it was
this way, colonel.
1:55:13
When i started out,
i felt just like you said,
1:55:16
but when i heared them
machine guns a-going
1:55:19
and all them fellers
a-dropping around me,
1:55:21
i figured them guns was killing
hundreds, maybe thousands,
1:55:24
and there weren't nothing
anybody could do
1:55:26
but to stop them guns,
and that's what i done.
1:55:28
You mean to tell me
that you did it to" save ## lives?
1:55:32
Yes, sir.
That was why.
1:55:37
Well, york,
what you've just told me
1:55:39
is the most extraordinary
thing of all.
1:55:46
Sergeant york.