The Big Red One (1980)
Charles Macaulay: General, World War I Captain
Quotes
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[the Sergeant affixes a cloth red '1' to his uniform. The Captain is drinking from a bottle of booze]
The Sergeant : What do you think?
The Captain : What the hell is it?
The Sergeant : It's a "one". First Infantry Division. The Red One; think General Pershing will like it?
The Captain : Oh, sure.
The Sergeant : I got the idea from the cap of a Hun I killed.
The Captain : When?
The Sergeant : About an hour ago
The Captain : Did he yell out anything?
The Sergeant : Oh, the same old Kaiser stuff, you know, "the war's over," all that junk.
[the Captain hands him the bottle]
The Captain : Finish it.
The Sergeant : Sir?
The Captain : Finish it. The Armistice was signed, at eleven o'clock this morning. The war's been over for four hours. You didn't know it was over.
The Sergeant : ...*He* did.
Zab : [narrating] A quarter of a century later that piece of cloth from a dead Hun's hat had become famous all over the world. It was the insignia of the First Infantry Division. The Fightin' First. The Big Red One.