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Clips from The War

"He's back."
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"My name's Lidia Simmons, and I'm 12 years old."
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"And these here are my memoirs."
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"I can't really tell you much about me nor my life"
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"without first I tell you about my brother Stu."
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"All spring Stu had been kind of quiet."
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"Perhaps it was because a couple months earlier"
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"our father had gone out looking for work and never returned."
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"It wasn't the first time Dad went away."
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"Ever since he'd come back from Vietnam, things hadn't been just right."
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"Mom held two jobs just to make ends meet,"
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"and we were still dirt poor like everybody else in Juliette, Mississippi."
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"But this June morning in 1970 was different."
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"All the flowers were in bloom,"
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"and along with the color and the sweet smell of summer,"
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"our father had come home."
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"Looks lonely."
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"Looks more lonely than anybody I ever seen."
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"Mom says that war destroyed our lives."
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"It's how come he couldn't find work."
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"It's why he's been gone all this time."
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"Says if it weren't for the damn war, we'd still have that house."
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"The house had termites."
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"That's why the county condemned it."
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"I'll see you later. Don't get arrested."
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"As I watched my brother walk to my dad,"
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"I knew he would start talking to him as if no time had passed at all."
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"No one in my family ever seemed to say "hello. ""
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"I guess that was our way of never having to say good-bye."
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"We sure had ourselves a lot of good times in this old place, didn't we?"
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"Yeah. We sure did."
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"Simmons!"
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"Your house is on fire again!"
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"Oh, no! No, no, no."
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"No, no, no, no, no, no."
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"You okay? Shoot!"
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"I'm fine."
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"Stu, don't you dare."
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"Why don't you go and wake up your dad,"
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"tell him breakfast is about ready."
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"Yes, ma'am."
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"Dad. Dad. Hey, Dad. Dad."
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"Dad! Dad!"
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"Jeez!"
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"You all right?"
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"Yeah, I'm fine, son."
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"I'm sorry."
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"Get ready... Hi."
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"Mmm. Mmm!"
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"Eggs and everything!"
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"Look how nice it all goes together."
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"You don't think it's too well-done?"
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"No. No, not at all."
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"I just pretend like I'm a starving Indian"
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"and this is my last piece of sausage,"
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"and I got into a fight over it with another starving Indian,"
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"it tumbled into the fire,"
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"and this is all that's left between me and death."
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"I'm that Indian. Give it here."
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"Give it back. Give it back, Dad."
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"Stu, you wanna do us the honor of saying grace?"
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"Dear Lord, bless this food."
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"Please."
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"Hey, asshole!"
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"Stu! Stuart!"
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"Hey! That's enough. That's enough now, both of you!"
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"Just quit it."
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"You all right, son?"
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"Tell your sister I'll be gunning for her."
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"Yeah, all right, Lester."
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"I'll tell her you was gunning for her in a doughnut shop, you moron!"
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"You'll see, Simmons. I'm gonna kick your ass too!"
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"What was that all about?"
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"Stuart, I turn my back for a second,"
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"you're in the middle of a fight."
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"Who is that boy?"
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"His name's Lester Lucket."
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"He's the reason Lidia got stuck in summer school."
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"She hit him in the tooth with a rock,"
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"and he told the principal she'd been cheating off all his papers."
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"She hit him in the mouth with a rock?"
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"Oh, yeah. He's always calling her names."
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"So last year she vowed to knock every tooth in his head out."
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"I'm gonna have to talk to that girl."
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"She got a pretty good start."
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"She doing anything else I should know about?"
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"Well, yeah, she's doing a lot of things,"
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"but I don't think you should know about them."
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"I didn't bring you down here to referee a boxing match, Stuart."
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"I brought you down here to tell you about something"
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"I've been putting off."
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"You know how all this time I been out looking for work?"
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"Yeah."
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"Well, something about that ain't entirely accurate."
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"The truth of the matter is, I been in a..."
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"I been in a hospital."
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"For what?"
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"Well, it has to do with me being in the war."
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"Well, I went... I went nuts for a little while."
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"Them doctors called it post-traumatic stress."
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"You remember how I used to..."
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"Remember, I used to do things before, they didn't make no sense?"
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"Well, it's 'cause there's a lot of pain in my head."
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"And I'm gonna tell you something else, too."
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"I landed three jobs after the war."
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"And I lost every one of them 'cause of them dreams."
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"It wasn't 'cause I couldn't do the work, son."
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"They're finding out a lot of men who go off to war,"
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"they just don't come back the same."
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"A lot of them."
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"But not... Not me."
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"I'm definitely getting better."
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"Come on, let's finish our coffee and doughnuts."
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"You dreamt one of them dreams this morning, huh?"
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"What was it about?"
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"I don't... I don't think I ever told you I had a friend in the Marines."
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"Dodge. Mama told me his name."
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"She didn't mean to do nothing wrong."
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"It's okay."
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"We were good friends, Dodge and me."
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