- Pfc. Bo Rider: don't know if I can do this.
- Terry Ryder: What, what can't you do?
- Pfc. Bo Rider: Be a father.
- Terry Ryder: Bo -
- Pfc. Bo Rider: How do you give what you never got? How do you teach what you've never been taught. I know I can hurt people. I've been doing it all my life.
- Terry Ryder: Bo.
- Pfc. Bo Rider: I don't-, how do I do the other?
- Terry Ryder: Shhh. You're doing it now
- Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy: We've been waiting for two and a half hours goddam it. Could have slept til 0600 instead of three-goddam-thirty. Every goddam thing that could've gone wrong has gone wrong with this. We waited three hours to form up. We wait two more hours till the airport pickup. Everyone in the goddam country knows we're coming now. I don't even want to know what's in the panel truck he's all revved up about. Now we're driving the most dangerous stretch of road in the world. It's worse than the B.Q.E.
- Pvt. Avery "Angel" King: What's that?
- Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy: Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. 400 traffic fatalities a year on a stretch of raod that four miles long.
- Sgt. "Scream" Silas: Why do you encourage him, Angel?
- Pvt. Avery "Angel" King: He's much better telling us something we don't know that when he's just complaining. Don't you agree.
- Sgt. "Scream" Silas: No.
- Pfc. Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio: You giving Dim advice last night?
- Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell: None worth takin'.
- Pfc. Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio: How com you never give me any advice?
- Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell: 'Cause you never ask. It's all right. I wouldn't ask me for advice neither.
- Pfc. Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio: Is that why you think I don't?
- Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell: Yeah, I guess so.
- Pfc. Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio: I'm just to proud.
- Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell: To talk to me?
- Pfc. Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio: To ask for help.
- Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell: I'd help you Doublewide, but I don't know shit. I guarantee you.
- Pfc. Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio: Tell me what you think I should do anyway, okay?
- Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell: About Sergio?
- Pfc. Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio: Yeah, you listen to every word of out conversations. I know you do.
- Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell: You love him a lot, don't you.
- Pfc. Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio: With everything I got.
- Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell: Well there's your answer. Love him with everything you've got.
- Pfc. Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio: That's it?
- Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell: That's it.
- Pfc. Esmeralda "Doublewide" Del Rio: You're a fountain of wisdom.
- Brenda "Mrs. B." Mitchell: Thank you.
- Lieutenant Underpants: We have to make our way to the back of the column.
- Sgt. "Scream" Silas: Why?
- Lieutenant Underpants: 'Cause that's where we are going to make our stand.
- Sgt. "Scream" Silas: Our stand? What are you? General Custer?
- Lieutenant Underpants: That's where we're going, Sergeant. Now get your people together.
- Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy: Can we pretend we never heard him?
- Sgt. "Scream" Silas: No.
- Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy: What do you think we should do?
- Sgt. "Scream" Silas: Confort the dying.
- Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy: Who's dying?
- Sgt. "Scream" Silas: Some of the civilian drivers. I can hear them on my radio. One of them told me the names of his children.
- Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy: Can the Lieutenant hear them?
- Sgt. "Scream" Silas: Yeah. Let's go.
- Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy: Say a prayer for us will you Angel?
- Pvt. Avery "Angel" King: You do it.
- Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy: Me? I don't believe in anything.
- Pvt. Avery "Angel" King: No, I know. Except for your country and your step-son.
- Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy: And us. I believe in us.
- Pvt. Avery "Angel" King: say what's in your heart. That's what prayer is.
- Pvt. Frank 'Dim' Dumphy: Well, we solve our problems with violence. That's who we are. That's who we've always been. Not just in this war, but in all wars. And when we're done. We aske each other for forgiveness, understanding, and peace. Let's hope, let's pray I guess. Let's pray our capacity for forgiveness doesn't run out before our capacity for tearing each other apart.
- Pvt. Avery "Angel" King: Amen.