1:13:10
Gomez, come here.
Where'd you get them ribbons?
1:13:13
- Army-Navy store.
- Take them off before you get locked up.
1:13:19
Strike me, look at the medals
on the bloke.
1:13:22
He must have been everywhere,
eh, Marine?
1:13:24
This boy's been around, buddy.
1:13:26
You see this one here?
1:13:28
Silver Star. Won it for gallantry
on Guadalcanal.
1:13:31
I'll never forget that day
as long as I live.
1:13:34
Me and my boys were on this patrol...
1:13:36
...over the Kokumbona River
near Tassafaronga Point.
1:13:39
And what happens? I get lost
from the rest of the men.
1:13:43
So I come to this clearing.
It's blazing hot...
1:13:45
...120 in the shade,
sweat gushing off me...
1:13:49
...when all of a sudden, boom!
Everything hit the fan.
1:13:52
They must have thought I was a general.
1:13:54
Japs popped up from everywhere.
1:13:58
I peer over to my left,
and what do I see?
1:14:00
- What was it?
- What was it?
1:14:02
A Jap machine gun
looking right down my throat.
1:14:05
- Blimey! What do you do?
- So I look for a fast exit.
1:14:07
But in back of me, three Japs with rifles.
1:14:10
Gracious goodness!
Go on! Go on!
1:14:12
And to top it off,
a Jap sniper sat in a treetop.
1:14:16
- Makes me shudder to think of it.
- What happened?
1:14:18
So I say to myself, "Joe...
1:14:20
...a hundred broads from Chicago
to St. Louis will be grieving today."
1:14:24
There was nothing for me to do
but to lower my head and charge!
1:14:27
- Out with it! What happened?
- What happened? I got killed!
1:14:36
I've been had.
1:14:54
- Well, I'll see you, kid.
- Mac?
1:14:59
Thanks.