Proud Uss Mason WW2 (2004) Subtitles

At 00:01:11,080, Character said: Everywhere I go in the city these days,
I see the flag.

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At 00:01:17,740, Character said: Still there, that star -spangled banner
yet waving.

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At 00:01:24,600, Character said: This is the kind of spirit we felt
during World War II.

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At 00:01:28,640, Character said: That's when I first came to New York. I
was a young sailor serving on the USS

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At 00:01:34,040, Character said: Mason. As soon as we g***t leave, my
shipmates and I hurried up here to

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At 00:01:44,200, Character said: Harlem always has meant freedom to me
and a little bit more.

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At 00:01:56,040, Character said: That's why I brought my wife and son
here after the war.

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At 00:02:00,360, Character said: But now that my wife has passed away, my
son's after me to move.

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At 00:02:07,600, Character said: Come live with him in his big house in
Connecticut.

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At 00:02:11,940, Character said: No, no, no.

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At 00:02:13,400, Character said: My memories are here.

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At 00:02:16,120, Character said: I'm staying put.

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At 00:02:56,460, Character said: I do not appreciate it that I have to
come after you about loud noise.

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At 00:03:02,740, Character said: It's one o 'clock in the morning. I
thought you were asleep.

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At 00:03:05,640, Character said: How could I possibly sleep?

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At 00:03:07,420, Character said: You know the rules.

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At 00:03:08,940, Character said: No partying, not while you under this
roof. I'm sorry, Granddad.

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At 00:03:12,900, Character said: No sorry won't cut it.

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At 00:03:14,640, Character said: You gotta tell your father that this is
not working.

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At 00:03:19,280, Character said: What's a man supposed to do to get some
peace and rest in the last years of his

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At 00:03:25,280, Character said: life? Well, hey, it's either me or
Connecticut.

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At 00:03:27,350, Character said: That's no choice.

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At 00:03:28,450, Character said: You're right about that.

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At 00:03:30,270, Character said: Who are you?

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At 00:03:31,170, Character said: I'm Marcus, sir.

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At 00:03:32,650, Character said: It was my music that woke you up. Music?

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At 00:03:36,450, Character said: There was no music.

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At 00:03:38,210, Character said: There was noise.

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At 00:03:40,190, Character said: We had music. You had the greats.

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At 00:03:43,050, Character said: Louis Armstrong, Prez, Duke Ellington.

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At 00:03:46,870, Character said: You ever listen to them?

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At 00:03:48,370, Character said: Yeah. My grandmother used to play Billie
Holiday records all the time when I was

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At 00:03:52,990, Character said: little. Billie Holiday.

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At 00:03:55,500, Character said: Yeah, she was great.

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At 00:03:57,800, Character said: But there was a woman used to sing at
the Mandalay Club

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At 00:04:04,440, Character said: on 135th Street.

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At 00:04:08,100, Character said: Izzy Claw was her name.

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At 00:04:11,060, Character said: Man, could she sing the blues.

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At 00:04:16,279, Character said: Blues is what sees you through your
worst times.

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At 00:04:24,940, Character said: Heart broke.

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At 00:04:26,980, Character said: Pain come down on me.

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At 00:04:30,760, Character said: She never made but one record, though.

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At 00:04:35,120, Character said: Larry, would you run to my room and
bring us back that wooden box I g***t in

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At 00:04:40,280, Character said: corner? You told me never to go into
your room. Larry, would you get the box?

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At 00:04:43,900, Character said: All right. Okay.

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At 00:04:47,540, Character said: So, you at the law school?

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At 00:04:50,920, Character said: No, sir. I'm getting my doctorate in
African -American studies.

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At 00:04:54,820, Character said: You, university?

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At 00:04:56,860, Character said: Oh, yes, sir. General studies.

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At 00:05:00,520, Character said: Oh, yeah.

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At 00:05:01,860, Character said: Bring it on in, Larry.

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At 00:05:03,900, Character said: Right there on the table.

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At 00:05:06,620, Character said: Ah. Ah.

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At 00:05:09,180, Character said: Yes.

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At 00:05:11,060, Character said: There she is. Ezzie Gore, 1944.

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At 00:05:15,800, Character said: Now, I want you to listen.

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At 00:05:18,640, Character said: Listen to that woman's voice.

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At 00:05:38,409, Character said: You haunt me

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At 00:05:41,370, Character said: With

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At 00:05:45,690, Character said: reveries Of

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At 00:05:51,990, Character said: days gone by You know you're in the
Navy, Granddad?

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At 00:05:58,910, Character said: Yeah. I fought in World War II.

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At 00:06:03,450, Character said: Military was a segregated thing, wasn't
it?

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At 00:06:05,810, Character said: Yeah.

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At 00:06:07,210, Character said: They were too.

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At 00:06:09,150, Character said: Up until 1943, all you could be was a
steward.

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At 00:06:14,890, Character said: A complete separate branch.

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At 00:06:18,410, Character said: Separate but not equal.

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At 00:06:20,170, Character said: Right.

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At 00:06:21,490, Character said: And then they needed manpower to fight
the two -ocean war.

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At 00:06:26,810, Character said: And then you could sound like to be...

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At 00:06:29,310, Character said: A seaman would get raided.

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At 00:06:31,310, Character said: That's when I enlisted.

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At 00:06:33,150, Character said: But of all the black men in the Navy, my
shipmates, 160 of us on the

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At 00:06:39,630, Character said: USS Mason, we were the only one to take
a warship into combat.

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At 00:06:44,250, Character said: How could you risk your life for a
government that allowed segregation?

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At 00:06:47,950, Character said: I wasn't fighting for the government.

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At 00:06:50,670, Character said: My country had been attacked.

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At 00:06:53,630, Character said: How'd you feel about September the 11th?

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At 00:06:56,530, Character said: I'm going to hit you like that.

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At 00:06:58,540, Character said: You know, it's all about home.

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At 00:07:01,140, Character said: And a man will defend his home.

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At 00:07:04,680, Character said: And we were good.

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At 00:07:07,320, Character said: Oh, man.

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At 00:07:08,440, Character said: We were proud.

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At 00:07:10,480, Character said: We were ready for hitting anybody else.

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At 00:07:16,440, Character said: I remember me and my two best buddies
coming back from Liberty.

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At 00:07:22,740, Character said: Commissioning Day, Boston, March 20,
1944.

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At 00:07:29,800, Character said: That's me.

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At 00:07:30,940, Character said: My nickname was Snafu.

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At 00:07:32,940, Character said: It was one seller's version of the fine
New Orleans name of Dufault.

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At 00:07:38,560, Character said: That's Gordon Buchanan.

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At 00:07:40,720, Character said: We called him Skinny.

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At 00:07:43,520, Character said: And then there was James Graham from
Lake City, South Carolina.

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At 00:07:48,580, Character said: He was quiet, but you didn't fool with
him.

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At 00:07:52,520, Character said: We were on top of the world.

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At 00:07:55,800, Character said: We finally had a ship.

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At 00:07:58,710, Character said: Yes, there were white officers, but the
USS Mason belonged to us.

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At 00:08:10,310, Character said: Look at these stewards, dressed up like
seamen.

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At 00:08:13,850, Character said: You boys steal these uniforms?

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At 00:08:15,570, Character said: What the hell's this on your sleeve?

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At 00:08:17,470, Character said: It's more rank than you g***t in 20 years.

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At 00:08:19,810, Character said: It's going to be given us orders soon.

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At 00:08:23,070, Character said: Look, you're such a radio boy. Come on,
let's get back to the ship.

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At 00:08:49,810, Character said: We wanted to get into the real war. Then
we could prove ourselves once and for

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At 00:08:55,410, Character said: all.

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At 00:08:59,340, Character said: The Mason was a destroyer escort, small
but fast and heavily armed.

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At 00:09:05,840, Character said: We passed all the trials with flying
colors.

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At 00:09:11,800, Character said: My shipmates operated all the new
technology the Navy said the black man

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At 00:09:17,680, Character said: never master.

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At 00:09:18,900, Character said: Sonar, radio, radar.

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At 00:09:23,520, Character said: We expected to go right into combat like
the rest of the ships in our group did.

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At 00:09:29,260, Character said: But the Navy sent us to Charleston,
South Carolina, where we waited for

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At 00:09:35,300, Character said: that never came.

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At 00:09:38,200, Character said: That's when the only black war
correspondent accredited to report from

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At 00:09:43,460, Character said: Navy ship arrived, Thomas W. Young.

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At 00:09:47,300, Character said: War correspondents could wear uniforms,
and his was custom -made.

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At 00:09:53,520, Character said: He was piped aboard.

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At 00:09:55,840, Character said: That's how the Navy shows respect.

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At 00:09:58,460, Character said: The captain ordered it.

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At 00:10:00,260, Character said: Captain Big Bill Blackford.

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At 00:10:03,000, Character said: Big Bill told us right from the start he
wasn't going to solve no race problems.

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At 00:10:07,620, Character said: He was there to run a U .S. Navy ship.

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At 00:10:11,240, Character said: Welcome, Mr. Young. Thank you.

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At 00:10:13,840, Character said: Captain Blackford gave Mr. Young access
to all parts of the ship and permission

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At 00:10:18,800, Character said: to interview the crew. This way.

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At 00:10:20,920, Character said: I showed him around.

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At 00:10:22,760, Character said: This is the radio room.

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At 00:10:24,610, Character said: The radio man in third class, Benjamin
Garrison. The radio man in second class,

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At 00:10:28,250, Character said: James Grant. He even met our ship's
mascot.

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At 00:10:35,190, Character said: What the hell? What have we here?

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At 00:10:37,390, Character said: Dog on the ship.

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At 00:10:39,430, Character said: That's horrible.

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At 00:10:47,470, Character said: Yeah, I've never been in an officer's
company before.

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At 00:10:51,660, Character said: Well, the Navy wants good press, but a
private room won't get it for them. What

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At 00:10:58,640, Character said: do you mean?

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At 00:11:00,340, Character said: Well, I'm very skeptical about this so
-called experiment.

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