MONTAGE- MONUMENTS AND STATUES IN VILLAGE SQUARES
AND PUBLIC GROUNDS THROUGHOUT THE U.S. OF DATING
FROM REVOLUTIONARY WAR MINUTE MAN TO KOREA.

MS- RAGGED BATALLION OF TROOPS OF ALL AGES MARCH
ALONG A FARM ROAD AND BEING JOINED BY TOILING
FARMERS ALONG THE WAY.

LS- DRUMMER BOY BEATING HIS DRUM IS SILHOUTTED BY
THE EVENING SKY. LS- FARMERS GATHER OUTSIDE FORT
AND LINE UP WITH THEIR LONG RIFLES.

LS- BRITISH SOLDIERS SET UP A SKIRMISH LINE AND
FIRE ON A RAGGED ARMY OF AMERICANS ADVANCING
TOWARDS THEM IN A FIELD. A BATTLE ENSUES

MONTAGE- CONTINENTAL ARMY MARCH ON A SNOWY ROAD
DURING A BLIZZARD. MS- LARGE BELL RINGS
SUPERIMPOSED OVER CHEERING COLONISTS AT WAR END.

LS- NEW AMERICAN FLAG WITH 13 STARS AND 7 STRIPES
IS RAISED OVER A FORT. CU- THE CONSTITUTION AND
THE BILL OF RIGHTS IS SUPERIMPOSED OVER A MEETING
BY THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.

MONTAGE- ENACTMENTS OF AMERICAN BATTLE SCENES
WITH BRITISH SOLDIERS IN THE WAR OF 1812.

LS- AMERICAN LAND BATTERIES AT FORT MCHENRY FIRE
AT ATTACKING BRITISH WARSHIPS. HERE, THE STAR
SPANGLED BANNER WAS INSPIRED BY FRANCIS SCOTT KEY

MONTAGE- AMERICANS FIGHTING MEXICAN TROOPS AT THE
ALAMO, AND THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR (REENACTMENT)

MS- CHARGING REBEL SOLDIERS SOME PULLING CANNONS
AND RETREATING UNION SOLDIERS RUNNING ACROSS A
BRIDGE IN THICK SMOKE.

LS- UNION AND REBEL ARMIES FACE EACH OTHER AT THE
BATTLE OF BULL RUN WHERE SPECTACULAR PLANS WERE
BRILLIANTLY EXECUTED AND MODERN WARFARE WAS BORN

MONTAGE- CHAOTIC BATTLE SCENES WITH CAVALRYMEN
DUELING WITH SWORDS, ARTILLERY AND INFANTRY
FIGHTING LARGE SCALE BATTLES IN TRENCHES.

LS- AN INDIAN ON A HORSE AT TOP OF HILL LOOKING
OUT ON THE LAND. LS- LARGE INDIAN TRIBE GALLOPING
ACROSS THE PLAINS. NATIVE AMERICAN

MS CAVALRY SOLDIER BLOWS BUGLE TO LEAD CHARGE LS- A CAVALRY TROOP CHARGES AND FIRES ON FLEEING
INDIANS. CAVALRY AND INDIANS CHARGE AT EACH OTHER.
MONTAGE- FALLING BODIES ON BOTH SIDES AND HAND
TO HAND COMBAT.

LS- CROWDS OF CHEERING PEOPLE AND WORKERS LAYING
TRACK AS THE TRAIN SLOWLY PULLS IN TO THE
FINISHED TRACKS.

LS- AMERICAN SOLDIERS FILL THE SHORELINE OF CUBA
AS OTHERS ROW IN WITH LONG BOATS DURING THE
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.

LS- LONG LINE OF CANNON ON WHEELS IS FIRED AT
THE ENEMY. (OLD FILM)

LS- AMERICAN SOLDIERS PLACE AMERICAN FLAGS ATOP
A BUILDING IN CUBA DURING A BATTLE. (OLD FILM)

NEWSPAPER HEADLINE: 'WAR', AS AMERICA ENTERS WWI

MONTAGE- REENACTMENT OF DOUGHBOYS CHARGING OUT OF
THE TRENCHES AND GERMANS MEETING THEM WITH
MACHINE GUN, CANNON AND RIFLE FIRE.

NEWSPAPER HEADLINE: 'WAR ENDS'. MONTAGE- HUGE
CROWDS WAVING U.S. FLAGS

LS- ADOLF HITLER SPEAKS TO OVER A MILLION GERMAN
PEOPLE FROM A ROOF TOP IN HUGE AMPI-THEATER.

MONTAGE- U.S. GIS TRAINING WITH FAKE MACHINEGUNS
AND TRUCKS WITH 'TANK' MARKED ON IT. STACK OF
EMPTY BEER CANS ACT AS SHELLS FOR ARTILLERY.

MONTAGE- GIS KISSING THEIR GIRLFRIENDS GOODBYE.

MONTAGE- GIS AIMING AND FIRING THEIR RIFLES AND
AUTOMATIC WEAPONS IN TOWNS AND CITIES OF EUROPE.

MONTAGE- BELLS RING AND WALL TO WALL CROWDS FILL
THE STREETS OF EUROPE AND U.S.

MONTAGE- SOLDIERS COMING HOME ARE GREETED BY
HAPPY FAMILIES.

LS- NORTH KOREAN TROOPS HOLD UP THEIR FLAG AS
THEY INVADE THE SOUTH.

SOLDIERS AT MASS WITH PRIEST ON BATTLEFIELD. SOLDIERS WORSHIP ON BATTLEFIELD