We took the Vietnamese, work with them, make something. Something out of nothing.
10 seconds sound clip from the Apocalypse Now movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 02:12:23 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- You know, we always help the people. We work with the people.
- See, Captain, when my grandfather and my uncles and father came here, there was nothing. Nothing.
- The Vietnamese were nothing.
- So, we worked hard, very hard.
- We brought the rubber from Brazil and then planted it here.
- We took the Vietnamese, work with them, make something. Something out of nothing.
- It keeps our family together. I mean, we fight for that.
- While you Americans, you are fighting for the biggest nothing in history.
- I apologize for my family, Captain.
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