Memorable Quotes from Robert Carradine
1 quoteSignificance of the Red One Insignia
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
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
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.
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