Just a few of the skills and services thatgo to the
making of an army.
For the first time inhistory, we raised a draft
army before war fell on us.
I hear the wind blowingAcross the bare thorn,I fear
not King HerodIf this child may be born.
INNKEEPER: I do not understand you,
wife.
Something is loosed to change the shaken
world.
Ill cart four men and their stuff and Ill tow
machineguns and mortars.
QUARTERMASTER: Im a quartermaster
sergeant.
Idrew three months hospital, and it wasnt because I
got woundedopening tin cans. Yep, all by its little self, once you turn those
wheels. Fires a ninety-five pound shell nearly fifteen miles. And then the Cilician
said tothe Ethiopian.
INNKEEPER: If there was any fault, wife, it was
mine.
Yeah,were fine and the folks are swell
here.
SERGEANT: Hell, they dont want to be swore in!
Otherwise, Im justthe guy who occupies ground.
We wouldnt employ a surgeon whod never donean
appendectomy.
Twelve thousand feet, area sevenl Proceed to
engageenemy! Were apt to forget, between wars, forget the voices andthe warnings. I
know you think of that, this time of year.
Nice quiet place to cook for a battery,
theArgonne.
Stand from the window there, you silly girl,Ill
speak to them! Lords, nobles, kings, here in Bethlehem,In our poor town? I know that
kings like Herod should not be.
The sergeant said to be sure to ask you how youwere
fixed for lemon extract.
QUARTERMASTER: Im a quartermaster
sergeant.
The child is born, the child, the child is born!
Its a quiet room, this central brain-cell of the Army.
NARRATOR: Washington spoke from experience.
QUARTERMASTER: Im a quartermaster sergeant.
We wouldnt hire a lawyer whod neverbeen to law
school.