Music: Huang Ruo
DANNY
Why do they have to hear this?
Could I have done
Anything different?
What went wrong?
What was wrong
With me?
ROSE
We call
Pvt. Manny Davis!
DAVIS
My name is Manny Davis
I served for a time
In Afghanistan
Under Sgt. Marcum
DANNY
Who is this man?
Why have they called him?
DAVIS
Lots of guys are racists,
You give them power,
And this is how they act.
I was afraid
Of what I might do
I wanted to kill
Sgt. Marcum
DANNY
What’s he saying?
No, that can’t be
DAVIS
Marcum called me “n****r”
Punished me for nothing,
Ordered me to sprint,
Carrying sandbags,
Do a thousand sit-ups
With water in my mouth
Just like Danny Chen
DANNY
That’s the same
Just like me
It happened to others
I couldn’t have changed things,
This wasn’t my fault.