The Lost Battalion (2001 TV Movie)

André Vippolis: Pvt. Lipasti - Runner

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Gen. Robert Alexander : Major Whittlesey, there's going to be promotions and commondations for everybody! No wonder our airplanes couldn't find this place.

  Lipasti : Well... your artillery certainly found it, General.

  Gen. Robert Alexander : [to Whittlesey]  Where's the rest of your battallion?

  Maj. Whittlesey : [Whittlesee hands the General the collection of dog-tags]  Sgt. Gaedeke we couldn't find enough to bury. Lt. Schenck's platoon is somewhere out there. I sent him to link with the French you said were on our flank, General.

  Gen. Robert Alexander : [pulls Whittlesey aside]  These are acceptable losses...

  Maj. Whittlesey : Not to me, sir.

  Gen. Robert Alexander : I understand your feelings for your men.

  Maj. Whittlesey : You said our flanks were supported and you ordered my men to attack. You said supply would catch up to us... which it did not! Is that acceptable to you?

  Gen. Robert Alexander : Yes, that's acceptable to me. We were able to break through the German line because you held on here... because you held on here like a thorn in their belly. Major, you did an incredible job out here, but you had 600 men to worry about and I had 20,000 sent into action. I have to live with that...

  [pause] 

  Gen. Robert Alexander : I sent for trucks to bring your men back. They've been through hell.

  Maj. Whittlesey : You'll never know what they've been through, or what they can and can't do. They're better then you, General. They're better then me, they always are.

  Gen. Robert Alexander : Let me take you and your officers back in my staff car.

  Maj. Whittlesey : That's not acceptable, Sir. I'll stay with my men.

  Gen. Robert Alexander : I understand.

  Maj. Whittlesey : [the General salutes and Whittlesey just turns away]  Men, we're moving out!

• Krotoshinsky : Where's the Cowboy going?

  Lipasti : He must know something.

  Krotoshinsky : You think so?

  Lipasti : He's from Roadville, he grew up around trees. You've ever been around trees?

  Krotoshinsky : They got trees in Union Square.

  Lipasti : Those don't count.

• Capt. McMurtry : What's your name?

  Lipasti : Private Lipasti, sir.

  Capt. McMurtry : Where'd you learn to run like that?

  Lipasti : I used to take a shortcut home through a Mick neighborhood, had to outrun a lotta your "Irish confetti", sir.

  Capt. McMurtry : Well, I'm glad one of my cousins didn't bean you with a brick.

• Yoder : Hey, how come you guys from New York call everybody "buddy"?

  Lipasti : You're not from the city?

  Yoder : From Bigfork, Montana.

  Lipasti : Never heard of it. I didn't know they let apple-knockers into this outfit.

• Krotoshinsky : He...

  [Lipasti] 

  Krotoshinsky : thinks you might want to buy a bridge.

  Yoder : What bridge?

  Lipasti : The Brooklyn Bridge. What other bridge is there? What kind of an army is this, we come all the way to France and they stick us with boys from Daisyville.