The French army was sacrificed, sacrificed by the politicians safe at home.
7 seconds sound clip from the Apocalypse Now movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 02:09:34 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Then they wait for the rain to come. When it comes, no airplane can fly there.
- And our paratroopers jump at 90 meters. I mean, you know, 90 meters, 70 meters...
- I mean, that's crazy. No army in the world can do that.
- And they only do that to be dead with their friends.
- Non, non, il faut pas jouer ça, voyons!
- The French army was sacrificed, sacrificed by the politicians safe at home.
- They put the army in an impossible situation where they couldn't win.
- The students are marching in Paris, protesting, demonstrating. They stab the soldiers in the back.
- The soldier would open the grenade, it wouldn't work. A piece of paper would fall.
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