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eee = What dowe do then, sit? We didn't join the Corps
Exo
KARFEE When?
DAWSON. Alter six months. We'd get a dishonorable dis:
charge, right
ars, Probably
ause we felt ike it, We joined ‘cause it was alife dec
sion. We wanted to live by a code, sx. And we found it
in the Comps. And now you've asking us to sign a piece
of paper that says we have no honor: You're asking us
t Say we're not Marines. If the court decides what we
did was wrong, I'l accept whatever punishment they
sive. But I believe Iwas right, si. believe I did my job
I won't dishonor myself, my unit, or the Corps, o that
Tean go home in six month,
Sis,
[RAFFIE, (fase) You guys are a reak show,
(Cights up on KAFFEE office.)
(SAM, KARPEE, ondJO enter)
Tm not gonna talk to Dawson anymore, He doesn't
like me, and he’s gonn:
want to get him a new lay
to jal just wo spite me. 1
SAM, Alright, you make a motion tomorrow at the arraign
ment. The judge’ll ask for the ples, we'll move to an
ightohwo conference and you can explain the situ
KAPVEE. (bet) Then that’s that,
50, (eat) Yeah, One thing, though. When you ask the judge
for new counsel, be sure and ask nicely.
KAFFEE, What dlo you want from me?
JO. T vane you to Jet ‘em be judged! Iwant you to ssand up
‘and make an argument!
406 An argument chat didn’t work for Calley at My Lai,
and an argument that didn’t work for the Nazis at
Nareinberg,