[narrating]
You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point.
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Private Zab By now we'd come to look at all replacements as dead men who temporarily had the use of the arms and legs. The came and went so fast and so regularly that sometimes we didn't even learn their names. Truth is, after a while, we sort of avoided gettin' to know them.
Private Zab Those Sicilian women cooked us a terrific meal. I'ts too bad they were all over fifty. We were more horny than we were hungry.
Johnson Would you look at how fast they put the names of all our guys who got killed?
The Sergeant That's a World War One memorial.
Johnson But the name's are the same.
The Sergeant They always are.
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