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These group's been giving you any trouble? My crew? Oh, never. Why, Captain? Well, never, he had a mutiny at Bravo Bunker. You know anything about that? Uh, what, what, sir? This group revolution has hit this base. Half of them didn't show up for work this morning. The rest came to make trouble. You know anything about that? I think so, sir. How? They told me, sir. Hey, Mama-san, what's all this buzz about, huh? Private, what's wrong with these gooks? They don't speak English, sir. Well, if they don't speak English and you don't speak gook, how do you tell them anything? Sign language? No, sir. I, I really don't know, sir. I'll ask Bao. Why can't we talk to each other, Babau? We care for you, Harvey. We have magic words. You care for us? You have magic words. Strong magic. Better than dreams. Very strong magic, Harvey. What did she say? I don't know, sir. Inscrutable, aren't I? I'm over here, Private. Now, every linguist we got couldn't get a hint about this. But you say you know something about it. So lay it on me. Yes, sir. Well, yesterday some soldiers came through the village on big track vehicles, and they must have been on some highly frustrating mission because they... Just stick to the facts. Yes, sir. Anyway, they wasted a team of buffalo. You mean this whole mess is over a team of wasted buffalo? They belong to Jop, the chief elder of the village. So what? Well, sir, he's like the Colonel. He's like our... I get the picture. And they make quite a mess, sir. The Vietnamese have a lot of civic pride, but with the blood and the gore... I get the picture, Private. Now, how long's this old man's tent per can from going to last? Well, he'll have to get some satisfaction, I guess. These gooks know this zop fellow? Yes, sir. Okay, Private, you go talk to them, and I'll tell you what to say. Sir? What now? Well, when you speak of zop, would you please say ang-zop and try not to use the word gook. Okay. Right. Babao, my captain wants me to ask you some questions. Let him ask his own question. Oh, Babao, please. He really wants to help. Oh, very well. Ask her if zop reported this incident to us. Has ang-zop told his trouble to the soldiers at the gate? Of course not. What did she say? Farmers don't speak to soldiers. Don't get smart, Private. Yeah, but they don't, sir. Look, Private, you have got to persuade her that we can't clear this mess up unless we contact ang-zop. Now, ask her if we can go into the village and speak with him. Oh, no way, sir. I'll decide that, Private. Ask the question. All right, sir. Babao, will ang-zop consider holding audience with us? Ang-zop, I entertain the idea of audience with you for a number of days. I have spoken to him about you. Ang-zop would be very pleased to meet you even in this bad season. Come here, Private. What was she saying? Well, sir, she says ang-zop will meet with me but not with you. What, in the same hell? Hey, listen, will ya? 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I stood there silently, the old Vietnamese woman, the young American soldier. After a few moments, she approached him. Did he insult you? He was afraid I'd get hurt. You might be right. There could be some danger. There were some young men in the village this morning. They walked close like my son, but it is said they are not choose men. But no problem. You can walk to the village with us. You come now. I can't go now, but I'll be there. I'll get there for sure. You come with us right now. I'll be there, Babau. Let me try the best way first. Oh, I don't know. Yeah, I will. Just trust me. I'll come tonight for sure. Have it next time. I've been hearing your name everywhere. All Captain Dawson talks about this evening is Private Eckstein. The same with Lieutenant Ozorowitz. The same with Top. I gotta go see Colonel Marshall. I know. I know. The Colonel wants you front and center at 1900 hours. Even the old man has Private Eckstein on his mind. All this worries me, Eckstein. You know why? I gotta convince him to let me go into the village. It worries me because all these people are talking about Eckstein. And I don't know what's going down with Mr. Eckstein. And when they talk about Eckstein, they're talking about me. Eckstein's my man. I own Mr. Eckstein lock, stock, and barrel. You read me, Eckstein. Now what's the buzz? Well, sir, something awful happened in the village. Two grunts wasted the Chief Elder's buffalo. So Captain Dawson made me find out about it. And one of the old women, her name is Bow, asked me, well, she invited me to the village tonight to talk with the elders. And I gotta do it, Sergeant. I gotta do. They'll really be hurt if I don't. I've got to convince the Colonel. And you gotta help me, Sergeant. We gotta convince the old man. He'll never listen to me, and he's got to listen, Sergeant. Now, we can do it together. He'll listen if you and... Eckstein, Eckstein, at ease. I got the story. Look, Eckstein, I'm gonna give you some fatherly advice because this is Vietnam, and I'm your big daddy over here. If you don't follow it, you can spend the rest of the war cleaning latrines. I've been in the Army 17 years, and I never told a field-grade officer anything. When they ask to see you, they've already made whatever decision is gonna be made. So Eckstein, grow up. You're going in there, and you're gonna listen, not talk. You're gonna say, yes, sir, to whatever he tells you because you're gonna expect to hear the worst. And forget those gooks. I'm sure you'll find something around here for you to do besides hanchoing gooks. Now, there's plenty to do. Now get your weapon and meet me in the orderly room. Yes, Sergeant. Hey, Jackson, I've got guard duty tonight. Watch Eckstein for me, will you? He's crazy enough to try to slip past the bunker line. He's a fool. Private Eckstein, report, sir. Eckstein, someday I'm gonna teach you how to salute an officer. What's that? Is that a gleam I see in those boots? What happened? Did you spill some polish? No, no, no, Colonel Marshall, sir. Well, anyway, what have you decided? Are you going to town this evening? I didn't know I had a choice, sir. I know you didn't, but now you know. I am the one who has no choice in this matter. There'll never come a day when I order a dud into combat. But I can't have a hostile village a mile from my perimeter and you seem to be the only man around here with an answer. So I simply don't have a choice. Only the duds in this man's army that have choices. I'll need a gate pass, sir. Before you make up your mind, you need to know some things. First of all, I've checked out your story with G2 and they tell me you might be right. They also said a VC propaganda team moved into the village last night, so you could be wrong. But I want you to know there's a war going on. Dawson tells me you're pretty chimney with these gooks around here. He thinks you might be deluded. 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Private Eckstein, a young man of sympathy and courage. Private Eckstein, known by some as a fool. Private Eckstein, prepared to risk his life to keep some semblance of peace in the midst of insanity. Well, what have you decided? I'm going. Why, Eckstein? Never mind. I don't want to know. Let's get down to business. What's it going to take to satisfy the job, fella? I don't know, sir. Well, you promise him anything he wants. The old goat's got us over a barrel. Your job is not to bargain. Your job is to report to me exactly where, when and how much. Is that clear? Yes, sir. That's the first step to getting it back here alive. The next is neutralizing that propaganda team. There's around six gooks in one of those outfits. They're a shrewd bunch, but they only carry handguns. I think you and two rangers can handle any firefight, but the key, Eckstein, is not to let them get close in. I don't think they'll try to waste you. They count three rifles. The main thing, Eckstein, is you've got to stay alive. Now, the rangers know their business. You're our only connection with Papason, so I want you to draw about 60 magazines of ammo. Let me see your weapon. Damn, Eckstein, you can't go into combat with a weapon like this. Here, take mine. If you plan to come back, you better have it with you. I know what I'm doing, damn you. What are you trying to do? Get me killed? You never asked me what... You want a quartz martial private? Yeah, I apologize for my language, sir. But I want to... You're insubordinate, Private. Are you going to listen to me, sir? I have no intention of listening to you. I've had enough about you. You're dismissed. This is not going to work, sir. The event of me... That's quite enough, Private. You're dismissed. You've got to hear me out. I can have the guards hold you out of here right now, and that's what this is coming to. I don't give a damn. You're a coward if you don't hear me out. I'm not going to call the guards. I'm going to throw you out myself. You are a coward because my way will work and your way never worked, and you don't want to hear about it. You're right, Eckstein. I don't want to hear about it. Well, then you're a coward. I... At ease, Eckstein. I'll hear what you've got to say. I'll hear it. Then I'm going to read you your rights, handcuff you, and lead you to the stockade. You'll do about a year for this, Eckstein. It ain't a bit fair, Eckstein, but you understand my position. In my long life, no man lived to call me a coward. But if I was to lay a finger on you, 15 years would be lost. So you're going to pay for it. Not the way I'd have it, but good enough for the likes of you. Fair enough. But you're going to let me see those people first. I think I know a damn side more about the Vietnamese than you do in the first place. The right to talk formally with the elders is a high honor. There are thousands of ways to cause insult and abuse. The only thing worse than coming armed is coming with an armed guard. Besides, if you have rangers standing outside the elders' hooch, that propaganda team will have the whole village convinced we've wasted the elders. A propaganda team won't shoot an unarmed man in public. It's bad showmanship. Now it's got to be done my way. I can do what you've asked me to do, but they aren't Indians and we aren't cowboys. Oh yes, there's a war going on, but it isn't between me and shop. After this, I truly don't care. I'd be sending a certain death. Do you understand the other way won't work? I mean, they won't even talk to you. They don't trust you. They want to talk to me. My way is the only way. We make a combat mission out of it, and it won't work. Now if you don't let me go, you are a coward. Yeah, it's that simple. Eckstein, you're going to have to understand this. You're not old enough to see it yet, but you're going to have to try. I used to think that is, I've always told myself there's a fine line between what's truly courageous and what's foolish. I was wrong. No such line exists. If it succeeds, it's an act of courage. If it fails, it's foolishness. To be a coward or to be a fool, that's the choice. These regulations on my desk, I can't fight a war with them. I've got to try things, that's how wars are fought. What works wins, what fails is part of the cost. I think I understand. I don't think you do. This is the scenario, Eckstein. The gooks get offended sometimes. It's imagined this time it's real. So when comes the VC? Things start happening here on the post. I have to lay off the Vietnamese workers. This makes them unhappier. VC begin to operate from the village. I have to garrison it. Eventually I'll have to reduce it to rubble. You say you know more about them than I do. This is my fourth tour, Eckstein. This thing, exactly this thing has been happening since I first came over. The events over the next four months will cost this battalion over 50 casualties and about a quarter million in material if we don't get overrun. After it's done, we're back where we started. That's the way it's always been. And then you, Eckstein, you come in here and offer me a way out. A way out, Eckstein. That's an incredibly dangerous thing to do. I'm going to give you this pass, Eckstein. I don't expect you to use it. I don't want you to use it. I think if you do use it, you'll be lost. Get up in the morning and go to your duties. No one will ever say anything to you about this. The option is yours. Yes, sir. The rangers and whatever equipment you might need will do well. I won't need this, sir. When can I expect you back? Tomorrow morning. I'll come in with the workers. If you're not at the gate, I'll be coming in after you. Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. It was the coming of how we fought for a very long time. The time we took for the earth to swallow the sun. At first, they were tiny figures from the fire base to the village. They grew larger as they weighted the rice paddies. In the danger in the sun, two raised rifles level omen. I doubted how we'd end. No good could come from this. Oh, I pray for his safety, but I understood his doom. Can they stop at Village Gate? Long moment passed, and then as my heart stopped, the two armed men turned away. How we, alone, unarmed entered the dark streets of Bacca. His body diminished. He slept uneasy. All eyes hidden in darkness. And yet I knew as he walked, he felt them. Then a shadow swallowed him. And when he emerged, he met the young man of whom it was said were not choose men, idling in a market stall. How we stopped. The young men toyed with their weapons. How we stood still. I saw him then about to die. I cried out to him. He not move. I ran to him, though I too might die. And he smiled, but could not speak to lead him to my father's house. Steps were heavier. But as we passed, they grew lighter. And when the danger lay behind us, we were weightless. So came how we to Bacca. Trong the port, we make a song of this. Do you like some rice beer? Oh, thank you, your honor. You must be hungry. I am I am Trong, a farmer. This is a leader. I am much too honored by your presence, sir. You need not worry how we if you become too honored, we will remind you of your humility. You come at the most opportune time in our conversation. We cannot conceive of the cause of a recent incident. Two young men, like yourself, came to the village yesterday and committed a most unreasonable crime. They destroyed my two buffalo. They riddled the animals and then drove their machines over them bloodying these holy streets. We want to know why, how we. I don't think I can give you a reason. No one told me why this thing happened. I was sent by my elders to make amends for it, but I don't know why it had to happen. It's a bad season. How we, you are young and of course you do not know, but all the seasons I remember have been bad. I know how we the question we are asking is difficult. But we must learn the answer before we may proceed. You may Your Honor, I have to confess, I don't know how to meditate. We're just lonely men, Your Honor. We come over here puzzled over the reasons we have come. It doesn't even seem to matter. Our Honor is measured by our loved ones and they're too far away for us even to imagine the distance. Our free minds live with them. Talk to them. We're here as machines. Machines of war, like the machines that trampled your buffalo. And when the season has come for our return to our villages then we will be men again. We are men without families. Men without guidance. Why did the soldiers execute my buffalo? There was no command given to slaughter the animals. It was like an act of passion. Time, I guess. Time passes very slowly for a soldier. Now, I know it's going to be hard for you to understand but time favors the farmer. It's a moral confusion, I guess. I can't find the words for it. Are we? Are we, my son? Yes. How are you, my son? Are you meditating? No, no, Your Honor. I am inexperienced with rice, beer. I thought it was a bad idea. You must leave the rest for us to drink. There was a question in my mind. That is most unusual by our custom. Do they do that in America? We should listen to the young. I need to know what we can do to amend the crime we committed. Ah, yes. What do you think you should do? Well, we should give you something of value. How much? As much as you want. How much is that? Well, it should at least equal the value of two water buffalo. Well, maybe more, I guess. Only two water buffalo equal to water buffalo. That is enough. Would you like some money as well? Well, if you didn't want it, you could give it away. I could not keep it, nor give it to my friends, nor even to my enemies. If money would disorder my life and I am wise, then think how disordered it would make my people. And they would not give it to my enemies but want them more disordered than they already are. Besides, in all my experience there has always been an end to money. But there is no end to the usefulness and productivity of two strong and testicular buffalo. I would take your money because that is what plagues you, but what would I do with it? I have so much to learn from you. That is true. It is not merely, as you said, about the slayers of my buffalo. It is not simply abandonment. That is the cause. The question is why your elders would put so much power in the hands of children? And the answer is you have too much to master. The more one has the harder it is for him. Just as a big man must work harder to curb his appetites. So you either need more mastery or less to master. We have provided for you as is our custom. I don't know the custom. We think you will learn it easily enough. 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Private, for Pete's sakes, where did you leave your rifle? At ease, Dawson, call it stupidity, call it carriage, but this young soldier went into a Vietnamese village at night unarmed. Unarmed? Unarmed! I can't believe it. Let the old goose stick us for, Eckstein. Sir? How much did those two buffalo cost us? You won't believe this, Colonel. Try him, Private. Well, I told Ong Zap to name his price just as you ordered. Good work, son. Forget this, sir. He wouldn't take a thin dime. It's worse than I thought. No, sir! All he wants is two more buffalo! That's all? Yes, sir. Good ones, though. Young and strong. Bulls. He uses them for breeding. That's easy. I don't know. He won't take money, you say? I saw some good ones near T. Singh, sir. That village is V.C. anyway. How are you going to move them, Captain? Deuce and a half, sir. And load them? Crane. We've got to clear the crane through General Wayrime. No way! Couldn't we buy him, sir? That goes through division. Area specialists. We'd be laughed out of the regiment. I don't mind being laughed at. I know Ria Reshalon would stick their nicks out. He wouldn't take money, you say? That's right, sir. Look, Eckstein, turn around and go back to the village. Find Mr. Jop. Tell him like this. See, we're not farmers, so we don't know one buffalo from another. He could end up with a couple of duds if we had to pick them, right? So ask him to shop around when he finds a pair he likes. Tell him to let you know, then you and Captain Dawson go buy them. We'll buy them on condition the owner delivers. You got that? Gee, I don't know if they'll see me uninvited, sir. You don't have to go, son. We can try waiting him out. No. I'll try it, sir. I understand perfectly why you don't want to go back. You must have been through hell. I want to go, sir. Well, you don't have to go now. You can put it off for a few days. I'll even give you time off, Eckstein. With all due respect, gentlemen, I really want to finish this up. I understand. Only this time take this rifle. I can't, sir. I order it, pride. I tried that, Captain. It didn't work. I can't allow it this time, sir. I've got a feeling... We don't work that way. You'll get over it, Captain. Wish me luck, gentlemen. If I don't hear from you before lunch, I'm going to be very concerned. Yes, sir. Ong Trong! Ong Trong! Halvee! I hoped you were safely inside the barbed wire. Yes, Your Honor. I would have been, but there was one more problem I wanted to discuss with Ong Xia. You promised you'd safely turn to the barbed wire. You're in great danger here, Halvee. Babao performed her duty as best she could, Ong Trong. My problem seems so very important. I hope to present it to Ong Xia while I still stand in his grace. That's not possible, Halvee. Come inside. Shhh! Sit down. Perhaps if you share this problem and it's not too trifling, I will bear your words to the holy man. Oh, thank you, Ong Trong. My problem is this. We soldiers have no use for the water buffalo. Therefore, we have no experience in procuring them. Very likely, if we saw a pair of water buffalo for Ong Xia, the animals would prove unworthy of his honor's time and care. So, to avoid this misfortune, I wished humbly to ask Ong Xia to choose the animals he most wanted, and then to inform me through your daughter, Babao, of their whereabouts. You see, that way, we could be sure of finding worthy beasts. Do you find this feasible, Ong Trong? Absolutely not. Oh. May I humbly ask a reason, Your Honor? You may, because you're young. I have no right to expect you to understand obvious. Why, Halvee, do you think Ong Xia asks of you the one thing you could not give? I... I don't know, Your Honor. Of course you don't. You're too young. His honor wants nothing from you. Oh, I... I see. Forget the buffalo. Go back to barbed wire. Did you bring alms? No, Your Honor. This once, you sure have. Babao, please, I must ask you... 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