Listen to me... there are things that happened on both sides. My husband was a military man, had been all his life. He was entitled to a soldier's death; he asked for that. I tried to get that for him, just that and he would die with some honor. I went from official to official. I begged for that, I begged for that, that he should be permitted the dignity of a firing squad. You know what happened. He was hanged with the others, and after that, I knew what it was to hate. I never left the house. I never left the room. I drank. I hated with every fiber of my being, I hated every American I'd ever known. But one can't live with hate. I know that. We have to forget. We have to go on living.
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Capt. Harrison Byers I trust you'll be comfortable in this room, sir.
Judge Dan Haywood Captain, I have no doubt that the entire state of Maine would be comfortable in this room!
Ernst Janning Judge Haywood... the reason I asked you to come: Those people, those millions of people... I never knew it would come to that. You must believe it, you must believe it!
Judge Dan Haywood Herr Janning, it "came to that" the first time you sentenced a man to death you knew to be innocent.
Col. Tad Lawson One thing about Americans: we're not cut out to be occupiers. We're new at it and not very good at it.
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