- Private Cole: Back then it was so easy. The long summer days, the freshly cut grass, not a care in the world. War was just a game to me, now it seems like a reality. I shouldn't be here.
- Sergeant Browning: None of us should be here private.
- Sergeant Browning: I'm stuck here and my wife's at home with our only child. He turned five two weeks ago and I missed his birthday cause I'm stuck in this goddamn country.
- [spitfire flies overhead]
- Sergeant Browning: There go our boys!
- Private Elder: Go on lads, go get the bastards! Send them all to bloody hell!
- Sergeant Browning: If you want to accept something Mason, then accept that you're a soldier, fighting for your country and you're not a lost cause.
- Corporal Mason: Yet.
- Sergeant Browning: We took on the devil at Pegasus Bridge. We took him on. We looked him squarely in the eyes and sent him right back to where he came from, you remember that.
- Corporal Mason: I'd sooner forget it sergeant.
- Private Elder: Well that's just what you need int'it sergeant? A bloody pacifist to have your back.
- [last lines]
- Private Cole: [voice over] Back then it was so easy. The long summer days, the freshly cut grass, not a care in the world.