Almost the same hour. All I ever thought about was being a Marine. I took exercises. I...
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Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith:
Anyway, I was kind of born to be a Marine. My father was killed in Belleau Wood the day I was born. Sgt. Heppelfinger:
Belleau Wood? Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith:
Almost the same hour. All I ever thought about was being a Marine. I took exercises. I never drank or smoked. I studied all about them. I can tell you every battle the Marines were in from 1775 down to now. New Providence, Fort Nassau, the second Battle of Trenton, the Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis... "I have not yet begun to fight. " Tripoli in 1805, Nuku Hiva in 1812, the Battle of Hatchee-Lustee River in 1837, Veracruz in '46, Chapultepec, the halls of Montezuma, Panama in '85, Guantnamo Bay in '98, then the Philippines, the Boxer Rebellion in China, Nicaragua, Coyotepe Hill, Fort Riviere and Haiti. Then Chteau-Thierry, Belleau Wood, the charge at Soissons, Saint-Mihiel, and now Wake Island, Guam, Bataan, Corregidor, Guadalcanal. They bled and died. They gave me a big send-off when I left home. Band was playing, Everybody hollering, the dogs barking, my mother crying. Everybody wondering if I'd come home a general or just a sergeant like my father. Well, it's one thing to come home with things like that on your chest, and another thing to go home with hay fever and a medical discharge
Anyway, I was kind of born to be a Marine. My father was killed in Belleau Wood the day I was born. Sgt. Heppelfinger:
Belleau Wood? Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith:
Almost the same hour. All I ever thought about was being a Marine. I took exercises. I never drank or smoked. I studied all about them. I can tell you every battle the Marines were in from 1775 down to now. New Providence, Fort Nassau, the second Battle of Trenton, the Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis... "I have not yet begun to fight. " Tripoli in 1805, Nuku Hiva in 1812, the Battle of Hatchee-Lustee River in 1837, Veracruz in '46, Chapultepec, the halls of Montezuma, Panama in '85, Guantnamo Bay in '98, then the Philippines, the Boxer Rebellion in China, Nicaragua, Coyotepe Hill, Fort Riviere and Haiti. Then Chteau-Thierry, Belleau Wood, the charge at Soissons, Saint-Mihiel, and now Wake Island, Guam, Bataan, Corregidor, Guadalcanal. They bled and died. They gave me a big send-off when I left home. Band was playing, Everybody hollering, the dogs barking, my mother crying. Everybody wondering if I'd come home a general or just a sergeant like my father. Well, it's one thing to come home with things like that on your chest, and another thing to go home with hay fever and a medical discharge
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and now Wake Island Guam Bataan
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Corregidor Guadalcanal
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They bled and died
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They gave me a big send off when I left home
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Band was playing everybody hollering the dogs barking my mother crying
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Everybody wondering if I'd come home a general or just a sergeant like my father
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Well it's one thing to come home with things like that on your chest
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and another thing to go home with hay fever and a medical discharge
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Movie Summary
Woodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home.
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Sgt. Heppelfinger
