:12:04
Merry Christmas, Tommy.
:12:11
This is the first Christmas
I ever spent underwater.
:12:14
You should have been aboard with us
Christmas Day 1941.
:12:18
The Japs sure gave us
a Christmas present.
:12:20
Blasted the living daylights out of us
off Lingayen Gulf.
:12:24
Between depth charges,
we ate Christmas dinner in the dark...
:12:28
...200 feet down.
Ice water and sandwiches.
:12:31
Well-sprinkled with rust and chips of
paint that kept flying off the bulkheads.
:12:37
- Bet you said your prayers.
- I sure did. Some extra Hail Marys too.
:12:44
- You think prayers do any good, Mike?
- Sure, they do.
:12:47
Some guys say, "Go ahead, prove to me
there's a God."
:12:50
I don't argue. I just know,
like I know there's salt in the sea.
:12:55
That's the way it is with me too.
:12:57
Look, Mike, if we get depth-charged,
and I show any signs of being yellow...
:13:02
...you sock me.
- Right on the button.
:13:04
- That's a promise?
- It's a promise.
:13:08
If I were in Connecticut now...
:13:11
...Mother and Dad would come in
to wake me singing Christmas carols.
:13:14
It's sort of a custom they started
when I was a kid.
:13:24
Pretty, ain't it?
Those guys practice all year for this.
:13:27
- Merry Christmas.
- Merry Christmas, you guys!
:13:29
- Merry Christmas, Tin Can!
- Happy Noel.
:13:32
Same to you and many more.
:13:42
Merry Christmas, skipper.
:13:44
Merry Christmas, fellas.
:13:46
Merry Christmas, skipper.