China Beach1988

Cherry White:
Nothing makes sense here. I thought those officers would know. You know I'm seeing more of this war than they are? Guys covered in mud and we fall out of nowhere like martians and they were so nice, but there's this, this hunger so strong and so sad K.C. You've never felt anything like it.

K.C. Kolowski:
Yes I have. What happened to that kid that came over here?

Cherry White:
Gone, long gone.

K.C. Kolowski:
Hold onto a little of it.

Cherry White:
You didn't.

K.C. Kolowski:
That's what I mean.

Cherry White:
[K.C. puts a 'unknown sexual object' in a box] What is that? What do you do with... [Cherry reaches for the box and K.C. Closes it]

K.C. Kolowski:
Absolutely not.

Cherry White:
I knew this girl once. Just the opposite of you, never stayed long enough in one place as a kid to unpack. Never had enough to unpack. All she had was a long string of guys with hard hearts and expensive habits, But, um, your guys out in the firebases, the rear colonels, even the girls in the short blue dresses with the dreams she never had, she um, wanted to escape America, and got here and found it... found...