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Oliver Stone's Platoon Roster

Meet the members of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division.

by Bryan Enk April 19, 2011

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The Pitch: Oliver Stone's gritty portrait of the Vietnam War, featuring a young soldier torn between compassion and brutality.

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"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 Van, Utah; Wampum, Pennsylvania. Two years' high school's about it, maybe if they're lucky a job waiting for them back at a factory, but most of 'em got nothing. "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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Tom Berenger as Sgt. Barnes

"You talking about killing? Hmm? Y'all experts? Y'all know about killing? I'd like to hear about it, potheads. Are you smoking this sh** so's to escape from reality? Me, I don't need this sh**. I am reality. There's the way it ought to be, and there's the way it is. Elias was full of sh**. Elias was a crusader. Now, I got no fight... with any man who does what he's told. But when he don't, the machine breaks down. And when the machine breaks down, we break down. And I ain't gonna allow that... in any of you. Not one."

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