Quotes of Thin Red line

Where is it that we were together?
Who were you that I lived with?
The brother. The friend. Darkness, light.
Strife and love. Are they the workings of one mind?
The features of the same face? Oh, my soul.
Let me be in you now. Look out through my eyes.
Look out at the things you made. All things shining.

United States Army Private Witt goes AWOL from his unit
and lives among the carefree Melanesian natives
in the South Pacific. He is found and imprisoned on a
troop carrier by First Sergeant Welsh of his company.
The men of C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry
Regiment, 25th Infantry Division have been brought
to Guadalcanal as reinforcements in the campaign
to secure Henderson Field and seize the island from
the Japanese. As they wait in a Navy transport, they
contemplate their lives and the invasion. Battalion commander
Lieutenant Colonel Tall talks with Brigadier General Quintard
about the invasion and its importance.C Company lands
on Guadalcanal unopposed and marches to the interior of the island,
encountering natives and evidence of the Japanese presence.
They arrive near Hill 210, a key Japanese position.
The Japanese have placed bunkers at the top of the hill and anyone
attempting the climb will be cut down.