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Pfc.Green · 02-06-2003, 10:58 PM

My favorite is from Gettysburg, its a scene where Col. Chamberlain (Jeff Daniels) is trying to get some 'mutineers' to join his regiment.

"This regiment was formed last fall, back in Maine. There were a thousand of us then. There's not three hundred of us now. But what is left is choice. Some of us volunteered to fight for the Union. Some came mainly because we were bored at home and this looked like it might be fun. So came because we were ashamed not to. Many of us came...because it was the right thing to do. All of us have seen men die. This is a different kind of army. If you look at history you'll see men fight for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, or because a king makes them, or they just like killing. But were here for something new. I dont...this hasn't happend much in the history of the world. We're an army going out to set men free.

This is free ground. All the way from here to the Pacific ocean. No man has to bow. No man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here you can be something. It is'nt the land...theres always more land. Its the idea that we all have value, you and me, where worth something more than dirt, but I'm not asking you to come and join us and fight for dirt. What were all fighting for, in the end, is each other."

(sorry if I went alittle long)

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Pfc.Green is Offline Senior Member Posts: 3,849 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Bothell, Washington, U.S.A	02-06-2003, 10:58 PM My favorite is from Gettysburg, its a scene where Col. Chamberlain (Jeff Daniels) is trying to get some 'mutineers' to join his regiment. "This regiment was formed last fall, back in Maine. There were a thousand of us then. There's not three hundred of us now. But what is left is choice. Some of us volunteered to fight for the Union. Some came mainly because we were bored at home and this looked like it might be fun. So came because we were ashamed not to. Many of us came...because it was the right thing to do. All of us have seen men die. This is a different kind of army. If you look at history you'll see men fight for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, or because a king makes them, or they just like killing. But were here for something new. I dont...this hasn't happend much in the history of the world. We're an army going out to set men free. This is free ground. All the way from here to the Pacific ocean. No man has to bow. No man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here you can be something. It is'nt the land...theres always more land. Its the idea that we all have value, you and me, where worth something more than dirt, but I'm not asking you to come and join us and fight for dirt. What were all fighting for, in the end, is each other." (sorry if I went alittle long)