By Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky, The Catholic Thing - In the 1979 Vietnam War movie, Apocalypse Now, the Marlon Brando character, Colonel Kurtz, has gone insane and commands his own Montagnard troops, inside neutral Cambodia. So the U. S. Army sends a soldier (actor Martin Sheen) to “terminate” him. The confrontation is iconic: Kurtz: “Are you an assassin?” Sheen: “I’m a soldier.” Kurtz: “You’re neither. You’re an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.”