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"My name is Stryker, Sergeant John M. Stryker. You're gonna be my squad - a rifle squad. Three of us have seen action: Corporal Dunn, Charlie Bass, and myself. You're gonna learn from us. In boot camp, you learned out of a book. Out here, you gotta remember the book and learn a thousand things that have never been printed, probably never will be. You gotta learn right and you gotta learn fast. And any man that doesn't want to cooperate, I'll make him wish he hadn't been born. Before I'm through with you, you're gonna move like one man and think like one man. If you don't, you'll be dead. Now, you guys have had a nice, easy day. I hope you enjoyed it because it's the last one you're gonna get for a long time. You joined the Marines because you wanted to fight. Well, you're gonna get your chance, and I'm here to see that you know how. If I can't teach you one way, I'll teach ya another. But I'm gonna get the job done. Any questions? That's all."
"Ten thousand sergeants in this corps and I gotta draw Stryker!"
"You know, my natural dislike for you is turning into a great hatred, Bass."
"Officer: [giving the pre-invasion briefing] Now, nobody knows exactly what they've got on this island, but they've had forty years to put it there."
"Alone and outnumbered, they had one thing in their favor... the American dream."
"A great human story... makes a mighty motion picture."
"John Wayne - Sgt. John M. Stryker"
"John Agar - PFC Peter Conway"
"Forrest Tucker - PFC Al Thomas"
"Wally Cassell - PFC Benny Regazzi"
"James Brown - PFC Charlie Bass"
"Richard Webb - PFC Dan Shipley"
"Arthur Franz - Corporal Robert Dunne / Narrator"
"James Holden - PFC Soames"
"Richard Jaeckel - PFC Frank Flynn"
"William Murphy - PFC Eddie Flynn"
"Adele Mara - Allison Bromley"
"Julie Bishop - Mary"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.