Two years high school's about it. Maybe if they're lucky, a job waiting for them back in a factory. But most of them got nothing.
9 seconds sound clip from the Platoon movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:16:26 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- They come from the end of the line, most of them, small towns you never heard of.
- They're poor. They're the unwanted. Yet they're fighting for our society and our freedom.
- It's weird, isn't it? They're the bottom of the barrel, and they know it.
- Maybe that's why they call themselves grunts, 'cause a grunt can take it, can take anything.
- They're the best I've ever seen, Grandma. The heart and soul.
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