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Major Adams: You're not only in the Army, you're women, and you're Negros. And because you're Negros and women you don't have the luxury to be as good as the white soldiers, you have the burden to be better. Remember, you're not only representing America, you're representing the Negros of America
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You are not only in the Army
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you are women and you are Negroes
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Because you are Negroes and women
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you do not have the luxury to be as good as the white soldiers
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You have the burden to be better
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You are not only representing America
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you are representing the Negroes of America
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Movie Summary
During World War II, 855 women joined the fight to fix the three-year backlog of undelivered mail. Faced with discrimination and a country devastated by war, they managed to sort more than 17 million pieces of mail ahead of time.