:56:01
I see pictures of Chinese kids
getting bombed, I think of my uncle.
:56:04
A Russian guerrilla gets hanged,
I think of my uncle.
:56:07
I see Mike lying in there dead,
I think of my uncle.
:56:10
I ain't got room in here
to see one of our guys get buried.
:56:13
Not yet. Not until I've done
something to even the score.
:56:16
So I eat with it, and I sleep with it.
:56:19
So be sore at me, you dopes.
:56:24
- I'm sorry, Tin Can.
- Attention.
:56:30
At ease, men.
:56:36
- Trying to figure out about Mike?
- Yes, sir.
:56:40
Well...
:56:42
...officers and men on submarines
are closer together...
:56:45
...than in most branches of our Navy.
:56:47
Mike was with me on my first patrol.
:56:50
He was my friend. I know his family.
:56:53
His wife's a fine, great-hearted woman.
:56:56
I know his kids.
:56:59
I remember Mike's pride when he bought
the first pair of roller skates for his boy.
:57:05
They were the finest roller skates
that money could buy.
:57:08
Roller skates for a 5-year-old.
:57:11
Well, that Jap got a present too,
when he was 5.
:57:14
Only it was a dagger.
:57:16
His old man gave him a dagger, so he'd
know what he was supposed to be.
:57:20
The Japs have a ceremony
that goes with it.
:57:23
At 7, a Jap kid is taking marches
under an army instructor.
:57:27
At 13, he can put a machine
gun together blindfolded.
:57:32
That Jap started on the road 20 years
ago to putting a knife in Mike's back.
:57:39
There are lots of Mikes dying right now.
:57:41
And a lot more Mikes will die...
:57:43
...until we wipe out a system that puts
daggers in the hands of 5-year-olds.
:57:49
You know...
:57:51
...if Mike were here to put
it into words now...
:57:53
...that's just about what he died for.
:57:56
More roller skates in this world.
:57:59
Including some for the next
generation of Japanese kids...