The Big Red One1980

[the Sergeant affixes a cloth red '1' to his uniform. The Captain is drinking from a bottle of booze]

The Sergeant:
What do you think?

The Captain:
What the hell is it?

The Sergeant:
It's a "one". First Infantry Division. The Red One; think General Pershing will like it?

The Captain:
Oh, sure.

The Sergeant:
I got the idea from the cap of a Hun I killed.

The Captain:
When?

The Sergeant:
About an hour ago

The Captain:
Did he yell out anything?

The Sergeant:
Oh, the same old Kaiser stuff, you know, "the war's over," all that junk.

[the Captain hands him the bottle]

The Captain:
Finish it.

The Sergeant:
Sir?

The Captain:
Finish it. The Armistice was signed, at eleven o'clock this morning. The war's been over for four hours. You didn't know it was over.

The Sergeant:
...*He* did.

Zab:
[narrating] A quarter of a century later that piece of cloth from a dead Hun's hat had become famous all over the world. It was the insignia of the First Infantry Division. The Fightin' First. The Big Red One.