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Look.
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I had an uncle lived
in the old country, see.
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A real high-class guy, not like me.
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You know what he was?
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He was a teacher of philosophy.
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To be that in Greece,
the home of philosophy...
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...you got to be A-number-one smart,
and that was my uncle.
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So they killed him, them Nazis.
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They stood him up against the wall.
You know why?
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Because he had brains.
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And everybody's got to be their slave.
Them that won't, like my uncle, they kill.
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My old man was no good.
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He was a boozer.
He died in bed having the D.T.'s.
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But my uncle,
a man with education and charity...
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...who used to send my ma
what to eat with.
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Him, they stood up against the wall.
And that sticks in here with me.
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The difference between
them and us...
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...is, with us even the no-good
gets a chance to die in his own bed.
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So I don't forget my uncle.
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An American flier gets killed,
I think of my uncle.
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I see pictures of Chinese kids
getting bombed, I think of my uncle.
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A Russian guerrilla gets hanged,
I think of my uncle.
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I see Mike lying in there dead,
I think of my uncle.
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I ain't got room in here
to see one of our guys get buried.
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Not yet. Not until I've done
something to even the score.
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So I eat with it, and I sleep with it.
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So be sore at me, you dopes.
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- I'm sorry, Tin Can.
- Attention.
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At ease, men.
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- Trying to figure out about Mike?
- Yes, sir.
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Well...
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...officers and men on submarines
are closer together...
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...than in most branches of our Navy.
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Mike was with me on my first patrol.
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He was my friend. I know his family.
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His wife's a fine, great-hearted woman.
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I know his kids.
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I remember Mike's pride when he bought
the first pair of roller skates for his boy.