Garth (Sir Michael Caine) tells Walter (Haley Joel Osment) that he and Hub (Robert Duvall) were "Shanghaied" in France and woke up the next day, forced into the French Foreign Legion, and on a ship bound for North Africa. Being shanghaied, or conscripted, was a reference to an abandoned practice of forcing a person into involuntary service, such as by the Royal Navy up through the 19th century. American sailors were protected from this, beginning with the Bryan Conciliation Treaty of 1914 (an agreement between 29 nations) and the Seamen's Act of 1915.

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