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WEBVTT 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:13.439 The bombs of fiction had torn apart the Japanese will for war. 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:23.600 But there were other Japanese, Japanese Americans who have lived here honorably as Americans, with stones that fought for all of us in European war theater. 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:26.160 And these sons are coming home now. 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:36.000 The family was during the war years and behind barbed wire in a strange American version of a concentration camp. 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:38.079 Arch Oberer's plays. 00:00:38.479 --> 00:00:52.320 The mutual broadcasting system has the pleasure of presenting the 24th broadcast of a special 26-week series of plays by radio playwright Arch Ober, a series of dramas concerning the people of this expanding world in which we live. 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:55.840 Tonight's play is titled The Family Nagashi. 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:34.560 After two years overseas with the most decorated unit in the history of infantry battalions, he landed at Salerno, spearheaded the 5th Army advance, held the front lines in Casino 40 days, attacked the Dancio, led the breakthrough on Rome, and as part of the 442nd Infantry Regiment, led the American advance of Italy's west coast. 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:42.560 Then to the 7th Army in France, charging up the Bosch Mountains and breaking the Nazi lines with cold bayonets. 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:54.560 He's home, Ben Nagashi, with a purple heart, a silver star, a division citation, and a distinguished service cross. 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:09.520 That is an excellent story. 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:13.120 But now, please tell us what did the general say? 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:14.319 My dad, I told you. 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:17.439 Oh, the general didn't say a darn thing. 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:24.560 He just saluted and handed over the citation to our company commander, and we all broke ranks and went back to eating those six steaks and kissing those pretty Italian girls. 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:29.520 My son has uniform of warrior and imagination of poetry. 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:30.159 Oh, Bama. 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:31.840 Poor gosh, then which general was it? 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:32.960 Isenhower a passion. 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:35.599 Neither, my brother, was General Mark Clark, a great guy. 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:38.240 Oh, Mama, you make rice like nobody else in the world. 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:39.439 Thank you, my son. 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:40.080 Mitsu. 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:42.080 You don't eat, you don't say anything. 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:44.960 I thought sure that by the time I'd get home, you'd have lots to say. 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:46.639 She has no change. 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:48.240 Thank God for that. 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:50.080 As far as I can see, nothing's changed. 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:51.280 Mitsu, all of you. 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:52.319 The house, fields. 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:54.240 How many gyms did you shoot all together? 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:54.960 How many, fam? 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:55.520 Jews? 00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:56.879 Yeah, that's taboo, Georgie. 00:02:57.039 --> 00:02:57.360 Remember? 00:02:57.520 --> 00:02:59.599 He has been waiting for you so eagerly then. 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:00.560 Sure, Mitsu. 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:02.560 Someday I'll tell you all about it, kid. 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:05.759 Right now, well, how did the tomatoes do this year, Papa? 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:09.360 It was so dark driving up, I was so excited I didn't even look or anything. 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:11.439 Well, you haven't answered me. 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:13.840 I want the tomatoes this year. 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:17.759 We didn't have time for much fun. 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:18.800 Why not? 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:22.159 Your father and mother and brother just got that bank. 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:23.120 Bank with. 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:24.639 Oh. 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:26.879 The concentration camp. 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:28.800 Leado Kissing behind Bob Wire. 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:29.919 What's the difference? 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:31.199 Much has been happening. 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:32.879 I'd forgotten what had been happening to all of you. 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:34.319 Banzanaro was not there. 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:35.360 I know that country. 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:36.240 Desert. 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:39.840 My father and my brother and my mother and my girl stuck out in the desert. 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:43.680 I tell you, when I first heard about it, I almost went crazy. 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:46.159 Took it out of me killing Germans. 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:48.159 It's a good one, huh? 00:03:48.479 --> 00:03:50.000 We have no business. 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:50.960 Why not? 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:56.400 With second generation citizens of German and Italian origin thrown out of their homes and stuck behind Bob Wine in the desert? 00:03:56.639 --> 00:03:58.639 It was a talking, a panic. 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:00.960 They did what they thought was best at the moment. 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:02.080 Fine, Mitchell, fine. 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:03.280 Turn the other cheek. 00:04:03.439 --> 00:04:05.120 The meat shall inherit the earth. 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:09.280 They flew a squad of us from Italy to Belson and we saw the ashes of 50,000 of the meat. 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:13.120 And saw the meat piled up like cordwood with the children of the meat, a meat little piled of their own. 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:13.599 I saw them all. 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:14.159 Oh my. 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:16.959 Oh. 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:19.759 I'm sorry. 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:23.040 Please, chicken, wine, please eat. 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:26.639 We have been home twenty-four hours. 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:27.839 Twenty-four hours. 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:29.360 Yes, only a day. 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:32.959 But as you yourself see, everything is as it was.
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00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:35.519 Now we can stay here forever. 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:36.720 No bitterness. 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:38.639 Only future. 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:44.720 May we drink one more glass of wine and then go out into the field? 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:46.160 All right. 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:54.160 Then my glasses are wrong. 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:57.600 My eldest son returned one. 00:04:58.000 --> 00:04:59.839 The words to be said are yours. 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:00.959 All right. 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:03.519 Someone else said them before me. 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:07.839 Is the United States of America right or wrong? 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:09.439 My country. 00:05:11.759 --> 00:05:12.319 Yes, sir. 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:21.839 The devil, the devil, William. 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:40.319 Ladies and gentlemen, this is our Joe War. 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:45.040 You have just heard the beginning of a play titled The Family Magashi. 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:48.959 It is based upon material furnished me by our government. 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:56.800 If you've just said old propaganda and have reached for the Tao to turn to another station, may I ask you not to do so for a few moments. 00:05:57.040 --> 00:06:02.560 If you continue to listen, you will hear a drama that should be as close to you as your own heart. 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:16.800 I bring you this play not because I'm a lover of those slant-eyed individuals who raped Nanking and made world tax with Shickle Gruber and Company and starved and beat and murdered their English and Dutch and Chinese and American prisoners. 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:25.199 I bring it to you because I, as you, know that an injustice done to any of us is an injustice to all of us. 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:30.079 This then is a story not about Japanese Americans, but about Americans. 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:58.000 Even as I struggled with him, my thoughts were why this? 00:06:58.240 --> 00:06:59.040 Why this? 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:02.240 And suddenly the years were there again. 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:04.480 It was as if I were old. 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:07.600 Sometimes ago, thirty-five years ago. 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:11.360 Oh so macaya America. 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:18.639 One of my countrymen saying, I remember, yes, this is America, you young fool. 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:20.879 Young fool. 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:24.160 Yes, both, unhappy. 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:25.839 America at that. 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:28.560 Here one grew rich without trying. 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:32.959 And in just a little while I would be rich, and I would return to Japan with my business. 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:36.160 Here you're born, you're keeping a dollar not spending money. 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:38.079 Take it or I don't mind if you leave. 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:40.399 Young and a fool. 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:45.839 E B C E So much to learn. 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:47.120 So much to do. 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:50.000 Japanese, Japanese, Japanese. 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:52.000 So Romney. 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:53.759 Yes. 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:57.279 So Hiroshi Nakashima. 00:07:58.240 --> 00:07:59.759 Why not bring her over or a right? 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:01.439 Yes, my friend's advice. 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:03.600 The daughter of Yiroshi Nagashima. 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:05.199 Right from Japan. 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:08.240 It can be arranged for money. 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:09.839 A great deal of money. 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:11.199 Work, work, more work. 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:14.079 Eat it all, see this all work day and night. 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:16.959 Until at last Kanichiwa. 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:18.319 Little tako. 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:21.040 I was only no more. 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:25.439 Mapana Oki Machi Wasamuchi. 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:27.120 Yes, Taka. 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:30.000 I remember you say a city frightened you. 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:31.439 You weren't green, bird. 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:33.200 So we came out here. 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:35.679 Oh it was such wilderness then. 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:40.480 I said to you we will live here a little while, then we will go back to our Japan. 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:43.200 Go back. 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:46.960 With each year our hearts went further into the land. 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:49.519 Thirty-five years into the land. 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:51.039 Into America. 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:53.519 The land was wilderness, barren. 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:56.159 My wife and I and my son made it further. 00:08:56.559 --> 00:08:57.600 Our life. 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:01.120 And that is why there's so much fury in my son. 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:02.559 He knows. 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:05.919 Oh God help him. 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:12.080 My God, I gotta get my gun. 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:13.039 No, no! 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:20.240 I am not frightened. 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:23.600 At my son's anger I feel only pain. 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:27.679 If I was mother, mother, this would not be. 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:35.360 I could go to their mothers, I could say to them, it is true my husband and I have not been as you. 00:09:36.080 --> 00:09:42.320 I have been here almost lifetime, yet I can hardly speak your language. 00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:47.840 It is true we have not been as you, but my sons are as you. 00:09:49.919 --> 00:09:52.399 Ah no, you kid won't matter. 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:56.799 I wanted to be as you go among you. 00:09:57.440 --> 00:09:59.279 First you faster me. 00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:04.559 You were also very large and so very sure of yourself. 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:09.039 I wanted to know you, for you to know me. 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:12.080 But I did not know how to start. 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:14.240 And the years went quick. 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:17.759 Oh, but my sons, I watched them. 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:19.200 They were as you. 00:10:19.519
--> 00:10:24.480 Hey, Ma, all that stuff about the Japanese emperor being a god, you don't believe that Balarki, do you? 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:26.080 So much like you. 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:38.480 Education that my children must have to be as you know all things about this strange great land, of which I know so little. 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:42.720 Hey, Mom, I can recite the alphabet forwards and backwards faster than anybody in our life. 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:47.600 Hey, Mom, I know what California is bounded by and the Indians sold the island of Manhattan to the Dutch for$24. 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:48.879 Big bargain, oh. 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:52.080 In every year, so very much like you. 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:53.519 Hey, Mom, I had a home run today. 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:55.759 Two men on base and I had a home run. 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:57.840 Hey, Mom, I just got$15. 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:00.320 And Joe says they'll tell me his jalapi for$20. 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:01.120 Can I do it, Mom? 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:01.759 Can I do it? 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:03.279 So very much like you. 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:04.720 Yeah, sure, Pop. 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:06.799 California Aggie's school is a place for me. 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:10.240 I'm a hay seed from way back, and I might as well learn how to do it right. 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:15.679 Well, I started at right tackle, but they put me at left half, and this season I'll be the blocking guy. 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:17.600 But next season the closest I can carry them. 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:20.559 How about using the car tonight, Pop? 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:22.960 I gotta cut a rug with a new dish to set out. 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:26.720 So much like you, but I will same. 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:31.840 My gosh, Mom, at least you'll learn how to write English after all these years. 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:35.200 Well, gosh, what if I had to go away someplace and you had to write me a letter? 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:36.559 Only same. 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:39.919 Not American, not quite Japanese. 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:45.600 As I watched your anger and your hate, I knew only same, my son. 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:49.840 If I was only another sort of mother for you. 00:11:53.039 --> 00:11:55.440 Let go of me! My God, I gotta get my gun! 00:11:57.919 --> 00:11:58.159 Please. 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:06.320 Until that moment, I had never seen you angry before then. 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:09.919 I'd known you ever since we were small children. 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:11.600 And I've never seen you angry. 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:13.200 No. 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:15.840 You must have been angry once then. 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:17.759 Okay, it's a fashion. 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:22.960 So the family went back to the car because they know I wanted to find a couple of things. 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:26.080 Darling, I don't know where it'll bring where it's sending. 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:27.360 Sure if I know I'll let you. 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:30.480 I wish we got married before I left. 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:32.240 No, no, no, no, no. 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:35.200 Married because I wanted you so long. 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:37.440 There's never been anybody else but you. 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:41.840 I love you. 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:48.799 I wanted I said so little to you, and finally so much. 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:49.759 Mr. 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:54.159 Listen, a little while for me, it's already kept things straight out of making pretty rugged. 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:56.720 I mean, back here, hot-headed patriots. 00:12:57.279 --> 00:12:58.480 But don't let it get you down. 00:12:58.559 --> 00:12:59.679 I won't last long. 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:02.639 Folks around here know the family Nagashi's okay. 00:13:02.960 --> 00:13:04.480 You're part of that family. 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:06.000 Because I love you. 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:08.559 I love you so much. 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:09.200 No. 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:10.720 No hate. 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:12.799 Okay, okay. 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:14.159 So you're a citizen. 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:15.519 It doesn't make any difference. 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:18.399 You have 12 hours to get out of this part of the camp where you belong. 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:19.919 But I had that hate thing. 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:21.840 That's too fast, sister. 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:23.759 You'll have to leave all that stuff behind. 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:25.840 In the bus, step ladling. 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:28.000 This camp will be your home indefinitely. 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:30.559 You're not allowed outside the confines of the barbed wire. 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:33.360 Stuff your mattresses with straw, step ladling. 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:34.320 I'm sorry. 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:36.399 Governor didn't issue any of those for you. 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:38.480 I'm sorry, we haven't got any of that. 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:40.240 I'm sorry, we haven't got any. 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:41.840 I'm sorry, we haven't got any. 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:44.240 I never wrote you anything. 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:47.360 I never wrote you about the worst day at all. 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:50.879 Darwin, please. 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:55.039 Could you meet me in Chicago next Sunday? 00:13:55.279 --> 00:13:57.759 Get married with love family. 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:00.240 I'm sorry, Miss. 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:05.759 It is quite beyond my authority to permit you to leave the relocation center for any such reason. 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:09.679 I sympathize with you, but my orders are explicit. 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:14.080 You must stay within the confines of the camp until further notice. 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:16.320 Such bitterness and hatred. 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:18.639 I haven't them anymore. 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:20.240 Now you have some. 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:36.080 It is very late, my son. 00:14:36.480 -->
00:14:37.679 They will not return. 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:39.360 I want to sit out here. 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:40.240 The gun. 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:42.159 But let's be putting to wait now. 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:43.120 Wait a minute. 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:44.559 It is a welcome home committee. 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:46.879 Welcome home, Ben Nagashi. 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:48.159 You've been away a long time. 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:52.879 You got a belly full of Salano mud and mortar shells and hiny mines and barred four tanks. 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:55.600 So here's a fatted cap in our hands and friendship. 00:14:55.759 --> 00:14:56.320 Thanks, pal. 00:14:56.720 --> 00:14:57.519 How's the crops? 00:14:57.679 --> 00:14:58.879 You want some help? 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:01.919 So I hate him. 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:05.840 I'll kill them all when I'm coming back. 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:10.480 When you're playing that way, I didn't like that one. 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:17.679 After you'd gone, I went back to the library. 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:18.720 I wanted to work. 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:20.639 There was some new books for me to catalog. 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:24.799 The first one I page open on a poem about Albert Nathan. 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:28.320 I read it so many times in everyone. 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:30.639 About the boys going to war. 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:33.120 Where are they going? 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:35.360 They smile and wave goodbye. 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:38.559 Young faces passing by on their way into history. 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:44.240 Looking for something like a war. 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:46.320 Like the mother face of America. 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:53.039 And a lonely girl there on the platform on her way back to school after the holidays. 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:57.600 She waits too. 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:00.080 Although she does not know why. 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:10.240 It would be friends of her if she was They're all young together, going by, going away, asking each other. 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:13.360 Going away forever. 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:21.679 Then all the time you were away when I talk about men overseas changing, I said nothing. 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:24.799 And I at first you laughed the same. 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:27.840 You talked the same when it happened. 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:28.799 No. 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:34.960 If you want to hurt and kill them, whoever they were, whatever they said, what does it matter? 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:37.200 You are back, and I'm here. 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:38.480 Isn't that enough? 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:39.919 Did you hear them? 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:42.000 You're nothing now but a Jap. 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:43.519 I know this. 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:45.360 I got a gun in my hand and they'll come back. 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:47.039 A dirty little fashion. 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:49.360 Listen, two Carlos this time. 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:49.840 Into the house. 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:51.039 Get in there, I tell you. 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:51.600 I won't. 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:52.399 Up there. 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:52.799 Okay. 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:56.159 Well, I got reinforcements now. 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:57.120 It's all right with me. 00:16:57.360 --> 00:16:59.360 Then, then I've heard automobiles. 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:00.559 Oh. 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:02.000 I knew they'd be back. 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:03.840 Ben, do not do anything. 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:05.039 Not yet. 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:11.279 Let's lie, turn on the portslight. 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:12.240 I want to see their faces. 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:13.359 Turn it on. 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:16.880 Stay? 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:18.960 They're not strangers at all. 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:19.680 Our neighbors. 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:21.119 Tried and true. 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:23.440 Did you ever return the stone hammer I like you, Mr. 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:24.240 Greer? 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:25.279 How are you, Mr. 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:25.759 Randall? 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:28.559 Joe's still got the football we wanted, the Fresno game. 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:29.519 To Horton? 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:30.319 To Hoss? 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:31.359 To Ames? 00:17:31.839 --> 00:17:32.640 To Alberti? 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:34.079 Red Mark. 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:35.359 How are you, Mr. 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:36.079 Parks? 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:38.480 Maybe you'd like me to come over and save your fruit trees again. 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:41.039 No, I've been waiting three years to get home and talk to you. 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:42.079 What's your hurry? 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:43.680 Why not be sociable about it? 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:45.920 The Nagashis have been here for 30 years. 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:48.240 A couple of minutes more won't poison your purity. 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:51.920 Or maybe you don't like to see me standing here in this uniform. 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:54.000 Okay, I'll take it off. 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:56.640 You can have it, including the ribbons. 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:02.880 Ben, we would have been here sooner, but we only heard that you were home, that your family came back. 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:05.839 We only heard just a little while ago what happened here tonight. 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:07.519 We know who they are, Ben. 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:10.720 They're not anyone you know or who knew you. 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:17.119 What they did, they did because they were ignorant little minds who think they see a chance to get your land. 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:18.880 It won't happen. 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:20.240 We'll take care of them. 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:23.680 But most of all we're here to say welcome home, Ben. 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:26.240 Welcome home. 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:41.359 You will forgive my son for going away. 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:43.759 His heart is so full.
00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:46.799 Perhaps tomorrow. 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:08.400 So we are here. 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:13.200 How soon will you again be removing in the angel one my son? 00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:14.319 Drive alright. 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:16.960 It was like egg in cold stones. 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:20.480 So a mother has a funny joke. 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:22.240 Come, George, Mitchell. 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:25.119 Ben, are you getting on? 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:26.240 Go ahead, please, I'll be. 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:28.640 Please, Sam, let me see. 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:29.839 Ben, it isn't good. 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:30.960 Please come in with us. 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:32.160 What reason is they're not? 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:33.279 Come, my son. 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:35.200 Mother? 00:19:35.680 --> 00:19:36.319 George? 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:43.839 Isn't them coming to church? 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:46.160 I do not know. 00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:55.119 It is a new use word. 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:59.599 A word weary with repetition with mishuman. 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:04.880 Evil is hidden behind it and will hide behind it again unless we die. 00:20:09.759 --> 00:20:10.480 I cried. 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:13.039 And we who were tolerant. 00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:17.839 And so evil began to cover the earth with a philosophy of rising sun. 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:23.599 Begin to question not our foolishness, but our tolerance. 00:20:24.079 --> 00:20:27.279 And so we began to give some of our hate to tolerance. 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:30.559 And so tolerance became a word of soft. 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:32.960 Soft things. 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:36.960 And an easy indulgence across the world of bloody soul. 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:39.519 My friend. 00:20:40.559 --> 00:20:45.359 The time has come for re-examination and re-application of tolerance. 00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:49.119 Now we must have a tolerance of strength. 00:20:49.440 --> 00:20:53.680 A tolerance that denies the very right of existence to evil. 00:20:54.079 --> 00:21:01.599 But that grants to every man the right of existence if that right is based in the common brotherhood of man. 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:05.920 What took place last night. 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:13.119 Come in, my neighbors. 00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:15.279 We were hoping you would join us. 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:16.000 Come. 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:17.759 We will take our seat. 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:18.640 Welcome home. 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:19.599 Thank you. 00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:20.480 Welcome back. 00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:21.119 Thank you. 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:22.640 Thank you. 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:26.000 We uh we have seen some fun for you. 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:26.799 Please. 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:32.079 If we might sit in our old places, of course, just as you like. 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:32.720 Thank you. 00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:38.319 Is here, Mama First, George, Mitsu? 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:39.119 Welcome home, Mrs. 00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:40.000 Magashi. 00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:41.119 Glad to see you back. 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:41.839 Good to see you. 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:42.720 Welcome home. 00:21:43.279 --> 00:21:46.079 May we fire down, please. 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:50.400 From all of us, Mr. 00:21:50.559 --> 00:21:50.880 and Mrs. 00:21:51.039 --> 00:21:54.799 Magashi, a hearty welcome home. 00:21:59.359 --> 00:21:59.759 Thank you. 00:22:01.359 --> 00:22:04.240 Each of us has a personal debt to Ben. 00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:08.160 Uh Ben is not with you. 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:09.680 He is outside. 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:10.720 Outside? 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:12.240 Mr. 00:22:12.319 --> 00:22:13.359 Gardner, Mr. 00:22:13.519 --> 00:22:14.319 Jackson. 00:22:14.559 --> 00:22:17.279 Would you go out and ask Ben Legarsi if he would come in? 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:17.920 Mr. 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:20.079 Nagasi, I should go out and help him. 00:22:20.559 --> 00:22:20.960 No, Mr. 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:21.759 North Sidney. 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:24.079 Because I wish it. 00:22:24.400 --> 00:22:25.920 Papa, he's coming in. 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:32.640 Papa, why is everybody standing up? 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:34.480 Why is everybody standing up? 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:35.440 Why? 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:38.160 They are honoring the other. 00:22:40.319 --> 00:22:40.559 Sam. 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:43.680 Would you come up here? 00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:45.680 Please. 00:23:03.279 --> 00:23:06.400 I was talking about intolerance before you came in. 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:10.559 I don't know if I'm qualified to speak about it. 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:13.359 All my life I've been accepted. 00:23:13.839 --> 00:23:15.680 Family, I mean your stuff. 00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:17.759 My skin, my religion. 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:22.480 Everything conformed, so I've never really known intolerance. 00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:25.599 After last night. 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:28.960 Talk to us then. 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:32.559 Say whatever you want to say to us. 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:38.160 You have the right to speak to us in any way you seek. 00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:45.519 Whatever I'd like to say. 00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:58.799 Once one of the worst days we had back there, when it looked as if for the first time we have to fall back because they were throwing everything they had at us, and we had so little to throw back at them. 00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:02.480 But just maybe it was a few seconds. 00:24:02.559 --> 00:24:12.000 There wasn't anything coming at us, and I lay on the ground, and I thought, when I get home, if I get home, no trouble will ever mean anything deeper than me anymore. 00:24:13.279 --> 00:24:17.920 I was wrong because yesterday I knew a worse kind of trouble than anything that the Nazis ever did to me. 00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:23.279 Even in the dirtiest foxhole I'd had a place because I was an American, no matter where I was, I had that. 00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:27.599 But yesterday somebody broke a window and yelled some words at me. 00:24:28.079 --> 00:24:30.079 All in a minute I had nothing. 00:24:31.039 --> 00:24:33.839 And my father and my mother were given their lives to me to have something. 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:35.119 They had nothing. 00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:46.240 The pain was as if somebody was tearing every one of my nerves out by the roots. 00:24:46.559 --> 00:24:50.160 And nobody could get to me, and I lay there in the pain went on and on, never stopping. 00:24:50.319 --> 00:24:53.359 I tried to knock myself out to stop it, but I couldn't. 00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:56.720 In the middle of it all, I suddenly thought, stay with it. 00:24:57.039 --> 00:24:59.599 Nothing will ever hurt you as much ever again. 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:03.839 Nothing will ever hurt you as much, ever again. 00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:06.319 I was wrong again. 00:25:06.559 --> 00:25:10.160 Yesterday while I was hating you and hating this place and the whole country. 00:25:10.480 --> 00:25:14.400 Some of you came over to tell me what had happened, but it wasn't you. 00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:17.279 Wasn't you wanting us out and hating us? 00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:32.559 But you knew that I was one of hurt the most because I believe in you the way I believed in the fellows in my squad, my battalion. 00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:35.200 That you knew that inside we were the same. 00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:45.279 I'll never think any differently as long as I live. 00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:48.480 No matter what happens from here I am. 00:25:49.519 --> 00:25:50.880 How many windows break? 00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:52.799 What word do they throw at me? 00:25:53.680 --> 00:25:57.599 Oh I believe in you. 00:26:53.920 --> 00:27:18.480 The cast included Lou Merrill, Barbara Eyler, Joseph Grandby, Tommy Cook, Lynn Whitney, Bill Shaw, Mary Jane Croft, Norman Fields, Bill Johnstone, Alan Hewitt, and Sergeant Harry Tonaway of the illustrious one hundredth Infantry Battalion. 00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:20.799 Announcer Dick Wynn. 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:25.519 The original music was composed and conducted by Jack Meakin.
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