1:50:00
Alabama.
1:50:02
l shall read that one later.
1:50:05
-Hey, Doc. This is from Doug.
-Yeah?
1:50:08
What does he say?
1:50:09
Hey, you guys. You want to hear a letter
from Mr. Roberts?
1:50:18
''Dear Frank....
1:50:20
''This will be short and sweet...
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''...as we're shoving off
in about two minutes.''
1:50:26
This was dated three weeks ago.
1:50:29
Does he say where he is?
1:50:30
Yeah, he says, ''My guess about
the location of this ship is exactly right.''
1:50:34
That means he's around Okinawa.
1:50:39
He met Fornell.
1:50:42
That friend of mine, guy named Fornell
l went to college with?
1:50:44
This is what he says:
1:50:46
''Fornell says that you and he used
to load up your car with liquor in Omaha...
1:50:50
''...and sell it at an indecent profit
to the fraternity boys at lowa city.''
1:50:53
''How about that?''
1:50:55
We did, too!
1:50:58
''This part is for Doc. l've been....''
1:51:01
Go ahead and read it. lt's for both of us.
1:51:04
''Doc, l've been aboard this destroyer
for two weeks now...
1:51:08
''...and we've already been through
four air attacks.
1:51:11
''l'm in the war at last, Doc!
1:51:14
''l've caught up with that task force
that passed me by.
1:51:17
''l'm glad to be here.
l had to be here, l guess.
1:51:21
''But l'm thinking now of you, Doc,
and you, Frank.
1:51:25
''And Dolan, and Dowdy, and lnsigna
and everyone else on that bucket.
1:51:30
''All the guys everywhere who sail
from Tedium to Apathy...
1:51:35
''...and back again,
with an occasional side trip to Monotony.
1:51:40
''This is a tough crew on here,
and they have a wonderful battle record.
1:51:45
''But l've discovered, Doc,
that the unseen enemy of this war...
1:51:49
''...is the boredom
that eventually becomes a faith...
1:51:53
''...and, therefore, a terrible sort of suicide.
1:51:57
''l know now that the ones
who refuse to surrender to it...