You wanna train him to be a professional killer?
Oh will you stop! They're soldiers. And the United States Army hardly ever goes to war anymore.
They were marching with rifles, Tony.
The barrels are plugged! They're symbolic!
Symbolic of what?
Respect!
He will be subjected to the discipline of kids hardly older than himself. Does that seem smart? Boys his age still kill frogs and small animals.
The Cusamano's Binky? The cherry bomb with the nails in it, you think it was AJ?
No, that is what I'm trying to tell you. He is still a child. He's a normal child. He's made some mistakes. God knows, he's got a shitload to learn about life. That does not mean that I'm gonna let you send him to the type of school whose whole reason for being is to make him follow orders by instilling fear.
He thinks the world owes him a fuckin' livin'.
What could've given him that bizarre idea?
We tried it your way for fifteen years now, with Berry Brazel to validatin' his feelings and that fuckin' school did the same thing and what a surprise. He thinks the world runs on his feelings! Well, he's gonna go learn to be a man.
I will not send him to that place.
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