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- Narrator: More than a hundred years ago, the Foreign Legion first patrolled the great Sahara. Today, this same desert is the training ground for the Legion's new recruits. Through hardship and bitter fighting, they soon become they soon become the hardy fighters who have brought so much glory to the tri-color of France.
- Sgt. Duval: He's a strange one, this Schmidt. Not once has he gone into town in the three weeks we have been here. I offer him passes, but he always refuses.
- Capt. Michael Gallant: A Legionnaire turning down passes to town? The honor of the regiment is at stake.
- Jeannine: Why did you not come back sooner?
- Cpl. Johann Schmidt: Because you are French and I am German. There is no love strong enough to build a bridge across the Rhine.