Daily Dialogue — June 23, 2019
“Tomorrow, we goes into battle. So Lordy, let me fight with the rifle in one hand, and the Good Book in the other. So that if I may die at…
“Tomorrow, we goes into battle. So Lordy, let me fight with the rifle in one hand, and the Good Book in the other. So that if I may die at the muzzle of the rifle… die on water, or on land, I may know that you, blessed Jesus almighty, are with me… and I have no fear.”
— Glory (1989), screenplay by Kevin Jarre, book by Lincoln Kirstein and Peter Burchard, based on letters by Robert Gould Shaw
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Military.
Trivia: Kevin Jarre was inspired to write the screenplay when he encountered a monument to Robert Gould Shaw on Boston Common. The memorial is shown in the closing credits.
Dialogue On Dialogue: A moving scene on the night before the 54th goes into battle after waging their own struggle to be accepted into the Union army.