Dear Ruth (1947)

Kevin O'Morrison: Sgt. Chuck Vincent

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• Sgt. Chuck Vincent : Well, that's the way it goes. Bill gets his girl through mail. I lose mine the same way.

• Judge Wilkins : Well, don't you and Bill know where you're going.

  Sgt. Chuck Vincent : Just the Pacific. Might be China or India.

  Mrs. Edie Wilkins : Well, I think that's very inconsiderate of them, not telling you.

  Sgt. Chuck Vincent : Mrs. Wilkins, I think you've hit on the finest definition of war I've ever heard - just one inconsideration after another.

• Sgt. Chuck Vincent : Well you see, everyone wants to name the plane after his girl. So we drew for it. Bill wrote down rules, and... I wrote down rules too. But the rear gunner won it with Helen.

  Mrs. Edie Wilkins : That's a pretty name.

  Sgt. Chuck Vincent : It didn't stay Helen. After our fifth mission, he got an invitation to her wedding.

  Mrs. Edie Wilkins : Oh.

  Judge Wilkins : Did you change the name of the plane?

  Sgt. Chuck Vincent : He added one word. That's how the plane got to be called Helen Gone.