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We're the best, God's on our side, and
things like what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki showed us it's okay
to kill civilians if it's for the best interests of the nation.
And when I went there, I went twice
because I believed it was in the best interests of the nation. And
I was sufficiently brainwashed where I did go back a second time because
I really believed it was right.
Q. Did you feel that morally you
shouldn't carry out some of these orders?
SCOTT CAMILE: I felt whatever was in the
best interests of the nation, for my country. That's what was best.
And
that's how I was raised to believe.
Q. When people see on their
television screens the films of those who have testified during the
Winter Soldier Investigation, they're going to see a lot of people with
long hair, a lot of people with beards. Don't you think this is going to
turn them off, and they're going to disregard a lot of what you're going
to say? You're an intelligent fellow. I believe you.
RUSTY SACHS: It's possible. For
six years my hair never got longer than 1/4 of an inch, and I always
swore I would keep it that short. But I like it long now. It
feels nice.
When I was in the Marine Corp, when I
first got out of the Marine Corp, I didn't want to talk to anybody who
didn't think that Agnew sat at the right hand of God. If I was
walking down the center of Cambridge, where I live, and some long-haired
kid was walking toward me, and he wouldn't get out of the way, I'd knock
his ass right into the gutter. And one day I did that,
and the kid said to me, "That makes it sort of hard for us to get to
know each other." And I thought that was a joke, and I kept on
walking.
And I was lying in bed talking with
my wife, and she said, "You know, he's really right," which was a simple
thing. And it might have gone right over me and never affected me
whatsoever. But my wife has a fantastic way of helping me, and teaching
me how to enjoy life. And that's the key to growing and being a
better person, just talking to people who are different, not to people
who are the same.
SCOTT CAMILE: I didn't like school in
high school. It took me four years to finish three years of
highschool, because I was never there. And when I was young, in
highschool, the big thing you do is every weekend we get drunk and we go
rumble the Cubans at the dance. We lived in Miami, and that was
the thing you know. And I had seven counts of assault and
battery, and a three-year sentence to Rayford which was suspended.
And I
had to go in the service. And I went in the Marines for four years.
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