Mr. Nik Quotes in We Were Soldiers (2002)
Mr. Nik Quotes:
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[after Ouellette takes a NVA prisoner just after landing in Ia Drang, the prisoner talks in Vietnamese to Moore and the rest of the solders]
Mr. Nik: [translating] He say he deserter.
Sergeant Major Basil Plumley: Bullshit, he's a lookout.
Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: Ask him where his friends are.
[Mr. Nik asks the prisoner in Vietnamese and the North Vietnamese lookout responds in Vietnamese]
Mr. Nik: He say this is basecamp for whole division. 4,000 men.
Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: Where?
[Mr. Nik firmly asks the prisoner in Vietnamese who responds by speaking Vietnamese and points to the nearby Chu Pong Massif]
Mr. Nik: [still translating] That mountain. He say, it's same army that destroyed French. They want to kill Americans very badly... but they have not been able to find any yet.
-- Mr. Nik
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Characters on We Were Soldiers (2002)
- Lt. Colonel Hal Moore
- Sergeant Ernie Savage
- Sergeant Major Basil Plumley
- 2nd Lieutenant Jack Geoghegan
- Sgt. Ernie Savage
- Joseph Galloway
- Joe Galloway
- Maj. Bruce Crandall
- Julie Moore
- Medevac CO
- Crandall
- Colonel Tim Brown
- Maj. General Henry Kinnard
- General in Hallway
- Lt. Col. Nguyen Huu An
- Diplomatic Spook
- Army Intelligence Officer
- Viet Minh Sergeant
- Specialist Galen Bungum
- French Captain
- French Lieutenant
- Brigade Headquarters