[the Sergeant affixes a cloth red '1' to his uniform. The Captain is drinking from a bottle]
What do you think?
What the hell is it?
It's a "one". First Infantry Division. The Red One; think General Pershing will like it?
Oh, sure.
I got the idea from the cap of a Hun I killed.
When?
About an hour ago
Did he yell out anything?
Oh, the same old Kaiser stuff, you know, "the war's over," all that junk.
[the Captain hands him the bottle]
Finish it.
Sir?
Finish it. The Armistice was signed, at eleven o'clock this morning. The war's been over for four hours. You didn't know it was over.
...He did.
[narrating]
A quarter of a century later that piece of cloth from a dead Hun's hat had become famous all over the world. It was the insignia of the First Infantry Division. The Fightin' First. The Big Red One.
