Well, York, what you've just told me is the most extraordinary thing of all!
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Alvin:
Well I'm as much agin' killin' as ever, sir. But it was this way, Colonel. When I started out, I felt just like you said, but when I hear them machine guns a-goin', and all them fellas are droppin' around me... I figured them guns was killin' hundreds, maybe thousands, and there weren't nothin' anybody could do, but to stop them guns. And that's what I done. Maj. Buxton:
Do you mean to tell me that you did it to save lives? Alvin:
Yes sir, that was why. Maj. Buxton:
[amazed]
Well, York, what you've just told me is the most extraordinary thing of all!
Well I'm as much agin' killin' as ever, sir. But it was this way, Colonel. When I started out, I felt just like you said, but when I hear them machine guns a-goin', and all them fellas are droppin' around me... I figured them guns was killin' hundreds, maybe thousands, and there weren't nothin' anybody could do, but to stop them guns. And that's what I done. Maj. Buxton:
Do you mean to tell me that you did it to save lives? Alvin:
Yes sir, that was why. Maj. Buxton:
[amazed]
Well, York, what you've just told me is the most extraordinary thing of all!
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Well I'm as much against killing as ever sir
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But it was this way Colonel
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When I started out I felt just like you said
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But when I hear them machine guns a going
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and all them fellows are dropping around me
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I figured that them guns was killing hundreds maybe thousands
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and there weren't nothing anybody could do but to stop them guns
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And that's what I done
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You mean to tell me that you did it to save lives
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Yes sir That was why
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Well York what you've just told me is the most extraordinary thing of all
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Movie Summary
A Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.
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Maj. Buxton
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