Voice over - Combatants
modified exerpt from Henry V - William Shakespeare
audio - Slow fade in over beginning of segment. w/FX
Once more into the breach,
or close the wall with our dead.
In peace there is nothing that so becomes a man...
As restraint, tranquility and temperance?
But when the blast of holy war blows mightily in our ears,
we then mimic the demeanor of tigers.
Stiffen sinews, summon up the blood,
disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage and just recompense.
Lend the eye a terrible aspect, let fury pry through the portage of the head,
and like the brass cannon, overwhelm it with righteous fire.
Hold hard the breath and and steel every heart,
set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide.
Hold hard the heart and and bend upward
every spirit to its fullest height.
With blood that is fet from fathers of war proven,
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders have fought...
...and then sheathed their swords for lack of further argument.
Dishonour not your mothers!
Now attest, that those whom you called father did beget you.
Be copy now to your base opponents,
and teach them how to war.
Copyright 2001 Joseph Lyon Kunkle - all rights reserved