How Did I Not Notice This Until Now?
I've seen this movie a hundred times, and I've never noticed before now Charlie isn't actually smoking that cigarette that you see in the three points in the movie when he does his poems. His mother smoked, which explained all the cigarette butts in their house.
Damn, I'm slipping.
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"They may have fought for their country but they died for their friends."--Flags of Our Fathers