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If I can’t convince you, maybe she can

They wouldn’t let me call you

I knew it wasn’t your making

What have they done to you?

It’s okay, I’m all right

I just went a couple of rounds with the wall and lost

They’re saying you could go to prison, Desmond

Leavenworth

There must be some other way

I don’t know what that could be

I’ve done everything they asked me, except this one thing,

and I’m being treated like a criminal just ‘cause I won’t kill

You tried Nobody can say you didn’t

But who are you going to save in prison?

Probably nobody

Then why can’t you just pick up the stupid gun and wave it around?

You don’t have to use it, just meet them halfway

I can’t do that

Yes, you can It’s just pride

Pride and stubbornness Don’t confuse your will with the Lord’s

Have I been prideful?

Maybe I am prideful

But I don’t know how I’m going to live with myself

if I don’t stay true to what I believe Much less how you could live with me

I’d never be the man that I want to be in your eyes

I fell in love with you because you weren’t like anyone else

and you didn’t try to be

Do not think for one moment that you will disappoint me

I will love you no matter what

I don’t know what he’s gonna do He loses no matter what

They want him to plead guilty,

but then he’ll get a dishonorable discharge

Otherwise he fights them, and he for sure goes to prison

Either way, they’ll call him a coward

and I don’t see how he can live with that

Well, thank you, Dorothy

If you get to talk to him,

tell him that we love him and that we’re praying for him

We’re praying for both of you

I will Bye-bye

Tom, you’re out of your mind, you’re delirious

Of course, I’m out of my mind

What do you think I am?

I’m out of my mind

You leave this room

No, Tom Put it down

Get away from me, woman

I got that, sir

May I help you, sir?

I wish to speak to Brigadier General Musgrove

Not without an appointment you can’t That would be quite impossible

Uh, if you would kindly tell him

Corporal Thomas Doss would appreciate a brief word

He’s in a very important meeting

I fought with him in France at Belleau Wood He was my captain

Please, ma’am, it’s most vital

Thank you, ma’am

There’s a man out there, Tom Doss

Doss?

Be over in a minute

You’ll be home safe and sound, like nothing ever happened

I love you

This is a hearing into the matter of Private Desmond Doss

The charge is disobeying a series of direct orders from his commanding officer

How says the defendant?

Private Doss wishes to enter a “not guilty” plea

Is that so, Private,I thought this was agreed

You wanted to enter some sort of plea bargain

Yes, sir, but I changed my mind - Just like that?

You wish to proceed to a court-martial?

Yes, sir

Well, on your head, then, Private Proceed

Your Honor, Private Doss waves his morality at us

like it’s some kind of badge of honor

He flaunts his contempt by directly disobeying a series of direct orders from his commanding officer

When the very best of our young men are sacrificing their lives against

You okay?

Yes

Are they still deliberating?

Yes, sir

Okay, now you go take this in there

I can’t It’s strictly military personnel

Well, then you get one of them to take it in

They ain’t out to help They’re fixing to bury him

There is only one question that any military court need ask of the accused

Do you deny disobeying Colonel Sangston’s direct orders?

Well, do you, Private?

No, sir I don’t

Why are you contesting it, then?

Why is it so important to you, given your refusal to even touch a weapon, to serve in a combat unit?

Because when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, I took it personal

Everyone I knew was on fire to join up, including me

There were two men in my home town declared 4-F unfit

They killed themselves because they couldn’t serve

I had a job in a defense plant and I could’ve taken a deferment, but that ain’t right

It isn’t right that other men should fight and die, that I would just be sitting at home safe

I need to serve

I got the energy and the passion to serve as a medic

Right in the middle with the other guys No less danger, just

While everybody else is taking life, I’m going to be saving it

With the world so set on tearing itself apart, it doesn’t seem like such a bad thing to me to want to put a little bit of it back together

Sorry, sir, nobody’s allowed to go

No, you don’t understand My son is the defendant

I understand, sir, but nobody’s allowed

I have information that’s important - Sir, you are not allowed

While the sentiments expressed are laudable, the facts of the charge seem incontestable, so

What the hell is going on out there?

Let him go

That’s a Great War uniform

It is, sir

Sir, I need to show you this

With respect, sir, you are no longer a member of the military

You are unable to attend this hearing I’m sorry

Is that truly the way it works, sir?

You fight for your country, you lose so much that was dear to you, and then you’re done with?

The uniform is forgotten You have no voice

You were at Lys?

I was, sir And at Belleau Wood

Twice decorated, I see

Yes, sir

I take it you are the Private’s father

I am, sir Thomas Doss

Then, as a former military man, you know there are laws here

Sir, I know the law and I know my son is protected by those laws

They are framed in our constitution

And I believe in them, as he does

They are why I went and fought to protect them

At least, that is what I thought I was doing

Because if it wasn’t for that, then I have no idea what the hell I was doing there, sir

Thank you, Corporal Doss

Let me have the letter

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