Friday night on How the War Was Lost:
(An auditorium. An officer stands before a full house of seated recruits. Explosions go off in the background.)
Now I know it looks bad right now. You see the buildings around you crumbling from all the shells and you can't drive down the road any more because of all the potholes, but we can still win this thing. It's all about attitude. Pilots, we don't need you complaining about having no ammunition for your guns. Your job is to keep the enemy shooting at you in the air instead of at us down here. You know your training. You make sure your parachute is functioning and that your canopy is unlocked. And when you bail out, go into the cannonball position, with your legs tucked into your arms. Don't use a swan dive. And make sure to land on our side of the big crooked line which you can only see from the air. Our land is clearly marked with the horizon spanning flag of our nation. Ground troops, I expect the same commitment. You don't all need guns, just the men in the front. It isn't until the man in front of you drops that you really need a gun...
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