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"Military Registration Archives"
Yes, Lieutenant?
Lieutenant, some new documents have arrived. Someone has to do the hard work, right?
"Report: Military Registration of 19.08.1943"
"Army Candidates:"
Company, the Colonel has a last mission for us:
cleaning that enemy defense line.
Today is our D day!
Company, I have never met such courageous man as those God has placed under my command.
This has been a long, hard and cold war…
But, today! It has finally arrived the day we longed for!
And I, Captain Joaquim Alves, am so proud of commanding you!
We fought!
Suffered!
Cried!
We fell… but we rose up again! Always together as one!
As a single soldier!
And we have achieved something only possible in a battlefield!
From man to man! From soldier to soldier! From brother to brother!
We have become a "war gun", defending our country
and reminding in our hearts the images of our mothers, our wives and children.
So, we will fight for them in this last mission, as if it was the last day of our lives!
We will fight next to the man we have shared the trench,
the suffering and the longing with.
And I promise you...
I PROMISE! We will fight and win as always!
I salute you men
I salute you, soldiers
I salute you, the most honorable men I have ever met!
I salute…
"29. JOAQUIM ALVES...
REJECTED"
"APPLICATION - ARMY"
Classification. REJECTED Motive: "Rejected by Cardiac Disability"
“Mother, I promise you… One day I'll be a captain!”