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- Title Card: In the 1950's, the United States began sending American men and women thousands of miles to fight in the Vietnam War. Almost 3 million Americans participated.
- Title Card: 30 years later, 1,835 American Prisoners Of War still remain unaccounted for.
- Raymond Watson: You're so beautiful.
- Vietnamese Woman: Not I'm not.
- Raymond Watson: What do you mean?
- Vietnamese Woman: In my country, the lighter you are the more beautiful you are considered. I'm dark.
- Raymond Watson: Well in my country, black is beautiful.
- Capt. Ramsey: [dug into beach bunker] You get any plans for when we get back to the real world?
- Red Fuentes: Yeah, I ain't going to a fucking beach!
- Raymond Watson: He saved your life.
- Mark 'Doc' Jordan: Prolonged my life.
- Raymond Watson: Don't say that. Where there's life, doc, there's hope.
- Mark 'Doc' Jordan: Why didn't you shoot her? Why didn't you just pull the trigger and shoot. She was the enemy. Right? She was trying to kill us. Right?
- Raymond Watson: The streets were crowded, Doc. Just too many innocent bystanders.
- Mark 'Doc' Jordan: You don't get it, do you? Sarge, were all innocent bystanders. Every last one of us.