They wanted me to be just like them.Respectable, hardworking, a little house, a family.They drove me crazy with heir goddamn world, Grandma.You know Mom.I guess I""ve always been sheltered and special.I just wanna be anonymous like everybody else.Do my share for my country.Live up to what Grandpa did in he first war and Dad did in the second.Well, here I am, anonymous, all right, with guys nobody really cares about.They come from the end of the line, most of ""em.Small towns you never heard of: Pulaski, Tennessee.Brandon, Mississippi.Pork Bend, Utah.Wampum, Pennsylvania.Two years"" high school""s about it.Maybe if they""re lucky, a job waiting for ""em back in a factory.But most of ""em got nothin"".They""re poor.They""re the unwanted.Yet they""re fighting for our society and our freedom.It""s weird, isn""t it? At 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..."Cheese-dick" newbie Chris"" turn came up, and he was instructed by Tex about how to work the claymore mines hat were set up with detonation cords: "Sure you know how to work the claymores, dude?.Sebastian guessed that possibly only a hundredth of 1 percent of heir number would escape to the sea.He was apparently a ""kept man"" in servitude to the miserly, nagging, aging beauty queen - she displayed several nasty personal characteristics: she was a feisty, shrewish, broken-down (invalid and bed-ridden) moll - possibly a retired whore? She complained that she was "nobody""s hunchback," and reminded him of his 24/7 duty to her:You work for me, Lou! The cigarettes you put in your mouth, I pay for.It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.An image of Africans being brought to America and sold at auction in the South follows the title.The rise of the abolitionist movement of the 19th century demands the freeing of the slaves.Then, in pre-Civil War 1860, the film dramatically focuses on two families.The Northern Stoneman family (of Washington D.C., with a country home in Pennsylvania) is led by imposing parliamentary leader, the Hon.Austin Stoneman (Ralph Lewis), an abolitionist leader in the National House of representatives [in a role patterned after Pennsylvanian Senator Thaddeus Stevens, the Radical Republican leader and anti-slavery crusader].