A scene from The Hurt Locker 2008
SGT J.T. Sanborn

I'm not ready to die, James.

SFC William James

Well, you're not going to die out here, bro.

SGT J.T. Sanborn

Another two inches? Shrapnel zings by; slices my throat. I'll bleed out like a pig in the sand; nobody'll give a shit. I mean my parents? They'll care, but they don't count, man. Who else? I don't even have a son.

SFC William James

Well, you're gonna have plenty of time for that, amigo.

SGT J.T. Sanborn

No, man. I'm done. I want a son. I want a little boy, Will. I mean, how do you do it, you know? Take the risk?

SFC William James

I don't know. I guess I don't think about it.

SGT J.T. Sanborn

But you realize every time you suit up, every time we go out, it's life or death. You roll the dice, and you deal with it. You recognize that don't you?

SFC William James

Yeah... Yeah, I do. But I don't know why. [sighs] I don't know, J.T. You know why I'm that way?

SGT J.T. Sanborn

No, I don't.

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