Number 2 on my list is Captain Quint's U.S.S. Indianapolis story in Jaws.
"... So..., eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway..., we delivered the bomb. "
109 posted on 12/12/2005 8:39:26 AM PST by Hatteras