Nobody asks to be a hero...it just sometimes turns out that way.

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Nobody asks to be a hero...it just sometimes turns out that way.

Eversmann

Black Hawk Down · 2001

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Black Hawk Down. Directed by Ridley Scott, Scott Free Productions/Revolution Studios/Columbia Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 2001.

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