Season 1: Episode 7: Brothers, Fathers, and Sons
From Bravo 3/44th
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Overview
- Directed by
- Bill L. Norton
- Written by
- Bill L. Norton
- Guest Star
- Baoan Coleman ... VC leader
- Also Starring
- Albert Furuto (as Al Furuto) ... Squad Leader
- Peter McKernan ... Warrant Officer
- Thuan Van Duong ... Doc Thien
- Vyhien T. Nguyen ... Wounded Woman
- Sen Thi Nguyen ... Old Lady
- Original Air Date
- 12 November 1987
- Title Card
- It is estimated that over one million children were orphaned or became homeless during the Vietnam War.
Episode Summary
Humor abounds in this very tragic story early on, but ends with a stongly emotional and grievous Zeke Anderson. This story tells about the effects of the war on all age levels of the Vietnamese people. And that in turn has devastating effects on the proud, big, tender hearted Americans. The Vietnamese soldiers ranged in ages from a minutes old boy to a 12 year old VC boy to an elderly woman fighting for her nannie goat.
The basic story unfolds as we watch a newborn infant win the hearts of Baker and Johnson instantly. The brusque and protective Sergeant tries to be resistant to the spell of the newborn, Judd, but he could not resist the plaintive wail of a tiny fellow orphan. This story shows the valiant efforts to fight the war for the small Vietnamese mountain boy and the heart wrenching defeat. This episode should have a disclaimer. Be warned! You will experience the full spectrum of emotions in this story, from glee to gloom to sympathy. You will surely agree with this writer that this was Tour of Duty at it's best and one of it's finest hours! (By Ernie)
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Transcript (see transcript listing)
Excerpt from scene [0:00] Teaser. To the Rear!
ANDERSON: You aren't gonna believe how lucky we are. What a detail! Listen, we got a half-hour briefing at Brigade, then we got the rest of the afternoon off. You know what that means?
JOHNSON: Afternoon at Mama-san Linda's!
BAKER: Who's Mama-san Linda?
JOHNSON: For starters, she's not your mama!
ANDERSON: But she's definitely what your mama ordered!
JOHNSON: Hey, look it that--a bony growth.
ANDERSON: Horns?
JOHNSON: You better get them trimmed.
BAKER: I gotcha. Hey, I get it. I get it.
ANDERSON [to pilot]: To the rear echelon, my man.
PILOT: You got it!
PILOT: Bluebird Twelve, roger. 223 by 444-566, south bank. Copy that.
ANDERSON: What's goin' on?
PILOT: We got a medevac. ARVN unit on the Pu Chu (?). U.S. advisor got hit.
BAKER: Great.
JOHNSON: Damn.
ANDERSON: We're taking fire!
DOOR GUNNER: Aah!
BAKER: He's dead!
PILOT: We're hit!
ANDERSON: Hang on!
PILOT: We're losin' it! We're losin' it!
BAKER: Oh, God!
JOHNSON: Look out!
JOHNSON: Look out for the trees!
PILOT: We're goin' down!
ANDERSON: Hang on! Hang on!
Song Listing (see full series listing)
No licensed artist music was used in this episode. Stan Foster and Terence Knox do, however, sing some lovely little lullabies...
Trivia
- Anderson, Zeke
- reads Popular Mechanics
- from Boise, Idaho
- closest blood relative is man named Judd Sibaugh
- is an orphan
- Baker, Scott
- reads Surfer Magazine, the pictures at least
- has considered vasectomy
- Johnson, Marvin
- reads Playboy
- doesn't know how to swim
- has a sister and a two-month-old niece or nephew who passed
Favorite Quotes
ANDERSON: You aren't gonna believe how lucky we are.
JOHNSON: We can't just leave her here.
ANDERSON: We've done everything we could.
JOHNSON: We didn't do nothin'.
ANDERSON: That's everything we could.
ANDERSON: Baker, it's a baby. A baby's a baby. These people love babies.
BAKER: Yeah, yeah, that's right. Bad guys love babies more than we do, right?
ANDERSON: We're in trouble. We're in very serious trouble.
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