“They were gonna make me a major for this, and I wasn't even in their...” – Captain Benjamin L. Willard, Apocalypse Now ... Movie Quotes Database

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Captain Benjamin L. Willard Martin Sheen

They were gonna make me a major for this, and I wasn't even in their ****in' army anymore.

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Captain Benjamin L. Willard Everybody wanted me to do it, him most of all. I felt like he was up there, waiting for me to take the pain away. He just wanted to go out like a soldier, standing up, not like some poor, wasted, rag-assed renegade. Even the jungle wanted him dead, and that's who he really took his orders from anyway. Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore If I say it's safe to surf this beach, Captain, then it's safe to surf this beach! Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore You either surf or you fight.