:13:01
and we'll be an island
in a communist sea.
:13:05
- Go ahead, how does it go?
- Oh, mother.
:13:10
I swear that I am not now...
:13:12
or ever have been a member
of the communist party.
:13:16
Feel better?
:13:20
Of course, when it gets down
to communism, uh,
:13:22
I've been fighting communism
since 1 951 , actually.
:13:25
I was looked at, you know,
the American fighting man,
:13:28
as being, uh, you know,
:13:30
like a warrior of sorts,
you know, due to my background,
:13:35
the way my mother
brought me up.
:13:37
She always spoke of
the warrior societies of our tribe...
:13:41
and of the different tribes around us
and how that these men...
:13:44
always had to work to gain the respect
of the people around them...
:13:48
and how they had to live, uh,
more or less a life dictated to them...
:13:53
by the society that they belonged to,
and it was extremely hard.
:13:56
I-I looked around and from listening
to my uncles and a lot of my relations--
:14:02
they had been in the Marine Corps--
and they always told me that...
:14:05
the Marine Corps was the hardest service
to cope with physically and mentally.
:14:09
And I naturally wanted to be
the best at that time,
:14:12
and I looked at the Marine Corps
as being the elite of the elite,
:14:15
the warrior society
in the United States.
:14:18
Now it might sound cliché-ish
to say that,
:14:22
"My country,
may it always be right,
:14:25
but right or wrong,
my country.''
:14:27
But that's how
I felt back in '67.
:14:30
And during my senior year,
:14:33
I said I've got
an obligation to serve.
:14:37
I've got to fulfill it.
:14:40
There's no reason physically
why I would be exempted,
:14:44
and therefore,
I'm gonna enlist.