A scene from Platoon 1986
King

Hey, Taylor, how in the **** you get here anyway? You look educated.

Chris Taylor

I volunteered for it.

King

You did what?

Chris

I volunteered. I dropped out of college, told 'em I wanted the infantry, combat, Vietnam.

Crawford

You volunteered for this shit, man?

Chris

Believe that?

King

You's a crazy ****er, giving up college?

Chris

Didn't make much sense, I wasn't learning anything. I figured why should just the poor kids go off to war and the rich kids always get away with it.

King

Oh, I see, what we got here is a crusader.

Crawford

Sounds like it.

King

Shiiit, you gotta be rich in the first place to think like that. Ever'body know, the poor always being **** over by the rich. Always have, always will.

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