Anyone remember a military movie

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The Foxhole prayer by Corporal Potts, played by William Bendix.

"I’m no hero, I’m just a guy. I come out here because somebody had to come. I don’t want no medals, I just wanna get this thing over with and go back home. I’m just like everybody else, and I’m tellin’ you I don’t like it. Except maybe I guess there’s nothin’ I can do about it. I can’t tell them bums to head somewhere else. Like I said before, it’s up to somebody bigger than me, bigger than anybody. What I mean is I … I guess it’s up to God. But I’m not kiddin’ when I say I sure hope he knows how I feel.

I’m not gonna say I’m sorry for everything I’ve done. Maybe I am and maybe I’m not. When you’re scared like this, the first thing you do is start tryin’ to square things. If I get out of this alive, I’ll probably go out and do the same things all over again, so what’s the use of kiddin’ myself? The only thing I know is I … I didn’t ask to get into this spot. If we get it – and it sure looks that way now – well then I only hope he figures we done the best we could and lets it go at that. Maybe this is a funny kind of prayin’ to you guys, but … it’s what I’m thinkin’ and prayin’."
 

fuzzybuddy said:
One WWII movie that tears me up was "The Bridge". It's about the last days of WWII, a group of Hitler youth were sent to defend a bridge from the US Army. The GIs know they are kids, but the bridge has to be taken. It's in German with subtitles. Normally, I don't like to "read" a movie, but the spoken German really makes the film.
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I've also watched that movie. It is gut wrenching and close to the truth of the desperation of the German army in the last days when Hitler was prepared to sacrifice the lives of mere schoolboys.
 

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