Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

John Benjamin Hickey: Keyes Beech

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Quotes 

• Ira Hayes : Hank wasn't in the picture.

  Bud Gerber : Sorry?

  Ira Hayes : Hank didn't raise that flag. He raised the other one. The real flag.

  Bud Gerber : The what? The real... the real flag? There's a *real* flag?

  John "Doc" Bradley : Yeah, ours was the replacement flag. We put it up when they took the other one down.

  Bud Gerber : Am I the only one getting a headache here? You know about this?

  Keyes Beech : It was after it was already in the papers. The mothers had already been told by then.

  Bud Gerber : Aw, that's it, that's beautiful. Yeah, that's beautiful. Yeah, why tell me? I'm only the guy that has to explain it to a hundred and fifty million Americans. Who is in the goddamn picture? Are *any* of you guys in the goddamn picture?

  Ira Hayes : Yeah, we're in the goddamn picture.

  Bud Gerber : Six guys raising a flag over Iwo Jima. Victory is ours. You're three of them, right?

  John "Doc" Bradley : This was the fifth day, sir. The battle went on for thirty-five more.

  Bud Gerber : Well, what'd you do, raise a goddamn flag every time you stopped for lunch?

  Ira Hayes : [whispers to Bradley]  Can I hit this guy?

• Ira Hayes : I know it's a good thing, raising the money and that, 'cause we need it. But, I can't take them calling me a hero. All I did was try not to get shot. Some of the things I saw done, things I did, they weren't things to be proud of, you know? Mike... Mike was a hero. You ever meet him?

  Keyes Beech : No.

  Ira Hayes : Best Marine I ever met.

  Keyes Beech : You know, Chief, I think if Mike was sitting here instead of you, he'd be saying the same thing about himself, not being a hero.

  Ira Hayes : Maybe. He was a good guy, but I think that he'd be ashamed of me, seeing me the way I am.