The Thin Red Line
THE THIN RED LINE by Terrence Malick Based on the Novel by James Jones USE FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY To the Memory of James Jones And Those Who Served With Him They Live With Us It was an act of love. Those men on the line were my family, my home. They were closer to me than I can say, closer than my friends had been or ever would be. They had never let me down, and I could never do it to them. I had to be with them, rather than let them down and me live with the knowledge that I might have saved them. Men, I now know, do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. Any man in combat who lacks comrades who will die for him, or for whom he is willing to die, is not a man at all. He is truly damned. William Manchester, the journalist, writing in Goodbye Darkness about his experience on Guadalcanal. (Like Fife, he walked away from the safety of a hospital in a secure area to return to his company in combat.) 2. COMPANY ROSTER (Partial) "C" CO, UMTH INF - Stein, James I, Capt, "C" Co Cmdg - Band, George R, 1st Lt, Exec - Whyte, William L, 2nd Lt, 1st P1 Cmdg - Blane, Thomas C, 2nd Lt, 2ns P1 Cmdg - Gore, Alberto O, 2nd Lt, 3rd P1 Cmdg - Culp, Robert (NMI), 2nd Lt, 4th (Weapons) P1 Cmdg EM 1st/Sgt - Welsh, Edward (NMI) S/Sgts - Grove, Ldr 1st P1 - Keck, Ldr 2nd P1 - MacTae, Supply - Stack, Ldr 3rd P1 - Storm, Mess Sgts - Becker, Sqd Ldr Rfl - Dranno, Co Clk - McCron, Sqd Ldr Rfl 3.
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