:37:10
When you're living to die,
every minute is an eternity.
:37:15
Days are lost.
:37:17
Months blend into one another.
:37:19
And the only reality you know
is in the moment,
:37:23
and the moment hangs over
you like death.
:37:26
It's difficult to describe what it's like
to live with permanent hunger in your belly,
:37:31
and the stench of disease and death
all around you with every breath you take.
:37:35
Malaria, diphtheria,
:37:38
pellagra, dysentery...
:37:41
sucks every ounce offluid
right out of your body.
:37:44
Your muscles cramp up
and your circulation collapses.
:37:48
Major! He's burning up.
:37:52
- Ernie.
- [Gordon Muttering]
:38:00
[Doctor] I don't know anybody
who could survive that lot.
:38:13
Oh, Ernie, son.
:38:17
You are a good soldier...
:38:21
and a good friend.
:38:38
[Thinking]
So this is death.
:38:41
Dark.
:38:44
Cold. All alone.
:38:50
No more reason to fight,
:38:53
so they give up on you.
:38:56
In death there is
no second chance.