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Private First Class Melvin Peterson is a model soldier in his late
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PETERSON: C.J. was sleepin’ when I came in! It’s Waters - can’t y’all see that? I’ve seen him before - we had ‘em in Alabama!
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Waters didn’t even listen! Turning comedy in (mimics): “Look what I done, Captain Boss!”. They let him in the army ‘cause they know he’ll do anything they tell him to - I’ve seen his kind of fool before. Someone’s going to kill him.
For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Charles Fuller, A Soldier’s Play, Concord Theatricals, 1981, pp. 35.
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