Voice of announcer Quotes in No Time for Sergeants (1958)

[Will and Ben are waiting in the General's office and hear the ceremony over the P.A]

Voice of announcer: General Bush has just taken his place on the reviewing stand. And now the four lieutenants who braved the atomic blast and will receive the air medal are bravely mounting the platform.

Benjamin B. Whitledge: The lieutenants? They're alive! They're gettin' medals! They're heroes!

Will Stockdale: Gollee!

Benjamin B. Whitledge: If we'd a stayed on the plane, we'd been heroes.

Voice of announcer: It is a solemn moment, ladies and gentlemen. The many visiting dignitaries standing at attention; the flag at half-mast in honor of the two men who gave their lives in Operation Prometheus: Privates Stockdale and Whitledge.

Benjamin B. Whitledge, Will Stockdale: [together, in unison] Stockdale and Whitledge?

Voice of announcer: Yes, Stockdale and Whitledge... names that will live as long as men are free.

Will Stockdale: We are heroes, Ben!

Benjamin B. Whitledge: But we ain't dead!

Will Stockdale: Well, that makes it even better don't it?

Benjamin B. Whitledge: They think we're heroes and we're a couple of rotten, no-good deserters.

Will Stockdale: [laughs] Gollee, will they be surprised!

Benjamin B. Whitledge: They'll kill us - that's what they'll do - they'll kill us!