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He clears his throat. "No, sir," he says. "I did not give that order."

"They’re asking about the village, Ben."

And in a small house in Vietnam, an old woman receives a letter from the journalist. It contains a copy of Deakins’s confession. She does not read English. But she sees the photograph of the young lieutenant attached to it. She touches the paper with trembling fingers, nods once, and places it on an ancestral altar next to a faded photograph of a family that no longer exists. word of honor -2003 film-

Then, a crusading journalist named Julianne Miller, researching a book on unreported wartime massacres, unearths an old Vietnamese woman’s testimony. The woman, whose entire family perished in the fire, has never stopped searching for the "young lieutenant with the soft voice." Miller’s investigation points directly at Deakins.

Then Deakins continues, his voice steady. "But I signed the report that lied about it. I stood in the smoke and said nothing. I let Lieutenant Tyson believe I had given the order because I was too afraid to admit that I had lost control of my men. The massacre happened. And I am responsible." He clears his throat

"I know."

Deakins looks at his son in the gallery. He looks at the journalist, who holds a photograph of a young Vietnamese woman carrying a dead child. He thinks of the locked drawer. He thinks of the word "honor." It contains a copy of Deakins’s confession

Deakins hangs up.