00:00Hey! Hey! War! Hey! Hey! Pass the pile!
00:06What's happened, Luke?
00:07It's war. President Wilson done declared war against Germany.
00:11You don't say.
00:12Yes, sir. Says so right here in the share paper.
00:27Here you are, Jim.
00:28I reckon I won't wait to be drafted.
00:30I'm ginning up as soon as the corn's in.
00:33Me too.
00:34All right, boy, Tom.
00:35I heard my daddy talk about fighting Yankees
00:37and my granddaddy done fought in the Revolution.
00:41Sure wish I was a young fella.
00:43Well, come along, Zeke.
00:45You load them and I'll shoot them.
00:49Hi, Alvin.
00:50Hey, Alvin. What about you?
00:52You ginning up now or you waiting to be called?
00:54I reckon I'm a-waiting.
00:57Howdy, Alvin.
00:58Howdy, Alvin.
01:01Oh, howdy, Alvin.
01:03Morning, Pastor.
01:04I reckon I need some cool oil.
01:06I'm glad you come in, Alvin.
01:08I was going to send for you.
01:10You was?
01:12You ain't registered yet, have you, Alvin?
01:14Of course I ain't.
01:15Is that the new seat you was going to send for?
01:22It's Tuesday, Alvin.
01:24You only got till six o'clock.
01:26I ain't going to register.
01:29Come here.
01:31You got to register, Alvin.
01:33I ain't going to.
01:35I ain't going to war.
01:37War is killing.
01:39And the book's again killing.
01:41So war is again the book.
01:44You're plumb right, Alvin.
01:46You got the using kind of religion,
01:47not the meeting house kind, but your kind.
01:49The kind I got, the kind you teach me.
01:51I know that.
01:52I hate to be telling you,
01:53but I don't want to see you get in no trouble.
01:55Now, you got to register,
01:55and there ain't no way you can get out of it.
01:57You mean they can make you go to war,
01:58even if it's again what you think is right?
02:00Oh, no, they won't make you do that.
02:02It is what I want to tell you.
02:04Come here.
02:08It's right here.
02:10Let me see.
02:12Now, wait a minute.
02:13There.
02:14There it is right there.
02:15See?
02:16Members of well-recognized religious sects
02:19whose existing creed forbids its members
02:22to participate in war
02:23are entitled to request exemption from military service.
02:28What's that other exemption?
02:29Well, that means if you're exempted,
02:31you don't have to go.
02:33Well, how do we get this exemption?
02:35Well, you got to write a letter to the draft board.
02:39Well, is that all there to it?
02:41Yeah.
02:42Well, sure, I'll register.
02:44Well, will you write the letter for me?
02:46I'd be glad to have him.
02:47Come on over here.
02:51Therefore, we find that we can't consider your church
02:54a well-recognized religious sect
02:55organized and existing May 18, 1970.
03:00We find further that it has no special creed
03:03except the Bible,
03:04which can be interpreted by its members as they choose.
03:07And finally, there's nothing in the creed of the church
03:09expressly forbidding its members to participate in war.
03:12Therefore, your application for exemption is denied.
03:17Is this share of the last word,
03:19or has he got some place to appeal?
03:21He can appeal to the district board at Nashville
03:23and find it to the general board in Washington.
03:26Thank you, sir.
03:28You're welcome.
03:31I'll be writing them appeals for you, Alvin,
03:33so don't you be worried.
03:35Oh, I ain't a worrying.
03:41Howdy, Pastor.
03:42Howdy, Alvin.
03:43I got right bad news for you.
03:46Word just come.
03:47They were taking you for the army.
03:48Well, that can't be.
03:50That letter we done sent to Washington
03:51says that I was again fighting and...
03:53They ain't going to exempt you, Alvin.
03:55You got to report to Nashville tomorrow night.
03:58I ain't a-going.
04:01You ain't got no choice.
04:03This was the last appeal.
04:05I don't care about that.
04:06I ain't a-going.
04:08You've got to go, Alvin.
04:09It's the law.
04:11What kind of law is it
04:13that says a man's got to go again the book
04:15and it's teaching?
04:16Well, I reckon there ain't no answer,
04:19but if you don't go,
04:21they'll be coming after you.
04:23Well, they won't get me.
04:25I'll go back in them hills.
04:26Yeah, and they'll put hounds on your trail
04:28and they'll follow you
04:29no matter how far back you go.
04:30Then they better not catch up with me.
04:32Because they'll be a wish
04:33and they hadn't.
04:34I-
04:40Sorry, Pastor.
04:41I-
04:42Them sinful words.
04:43I wasn't thinking of what I was saying.
04:48I'll go.
04:52War's a way to the other side of the ocean, Alvin.
04:56Lots of things can happen
04:57before you get there.
05:00You put your trust in the Lord
05:01and he'll look out for you.
05:04I done forgot the Lord.
05:08Ain't never gonna forget him again.
05:13Goodbye, Alvin.
05:24Come on, you guys.
05:26Hit the dirt.
05:27Hit it hard.
05:27Okay, sir.
05:31Look, Ross.
05:33That's not a teaspoon you've got there.
05:34It's a shovel.
05:35Lay into it.
05:36Okay, General.
05:37Dig, soldiers.
05:38Dig.
05:39Dig your way straight down to China.
05:41Okay, sir.
05:42China?
05:43What's the idea of going to China?
05:45I thought this war was in Europe.
05:51Parsons.
05:52Sergeant Early.
05:54Yes, sir.
05:56Which one of your men is York?
05:58He's the big, lanky fellow
05:59fought from the end, sir.
06:00Having any trouble with him?
06:02No, sir.
06:03Why?
06:03Down here is a conscientious objector.
06:06Keep your eye on him.
06:07I want a weekly report.
06:08Yes, sir.
06:15That'll be a big help.
06:24Boy, look at that shiny.
06:26Is that clean or is that clean?
06:27Look, Sarge, you can eat right off the trigger.
06:29Not bad.
06:33You call that clean?
06:34What's the matter with it?
06:35Look.
06:37I don't see nothing.
06:39It's full of grease.
06:40Won't that make the bullet come out faster?
06:42Clean it.
06:44That's a good job, York.
06:46Did you ever clean a rifle before?
06:48I ain't never cleaned one like that before.
06:50It doesn't clean my own, though.
06:52So you've got a gun of your own, have you?
06:54Yes, sir.
06:55I wouldn't think you'd have one.
06:57, but I need to know what to do.
07:06You don't see we've got jackass
