Joe Galloway: Sir, I don't know how to tell this story.
Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: Well you have to, Joe. You tell the American people what happened here. You tell them how my troopers died.
Joe Galloway: Yes sir.
Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: Where you from, son?
Joseph Galloway: Refugio, Texas, sir.
Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: Well, that's the first thing I've heard today that makes any sense.
Lt. Col. Nguyen Huu An: [in Vietnamese; subtitled] Those who are about to fight and die, I am grateful.
Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: Nothing's wrong except there's nothing wrong!
Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: Pass this along; tell your men to fire three shots at anything that looks suspicious, on my order.
Sergeant Major Basil Plumley: Can't take no pictures lying down there, sonny. Down, right there.
Joseph Galloway: I'm a noncombatant, sir.
Sergeant Major Basil Plumley: Ain't no such thing today, boy.
[last lines]
Joseph Galloway: [narrating] Some had families waiting. For others, their only family would be the men they bled beside. There were no bands, no flags, no Honor Guards to welcome them home. They went to war because their country ordered them to. But in the end, they fought not for their country or their flag, they fought for each other.
[first lines]
French Captain: [in French; subtitled] Anything?
French Lieutenant: [in French] No, Captain.
French Captain: [in French] Fucking heat. Fucking grass. Fucking country.
[a Vietnamese bullet suddenly hits him in the head]
Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: A leader must remain cool and calm. And second, he must learn to ignore explosions... the heat and dust, the screams of the wounded. This is normal on a battlefield. Normal!
2nd Lieutenant Jack Geoghegan: I'm here to help orphans, not make them.
Brigade Headquarters: How is it out there, Colonel?
Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: We're surrounded, but we're holding on, sir. Sir, I need a confirmed count of our dead and wounded. I got to know where all my boys are.
Brigade Headquarters: You'll get it, Hal.
Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: Here they come!
