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The bombs of fiction had torn apart the Japanese will for war.
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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.
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And these sons are coming home now.
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The family was during the war years and behind barbed wire in a strange American version of a concentration camp.
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Arch Oberer's plays.
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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.
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Tonight's play is titled The Family Nagashi.
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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.
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Then to the 7th Army in France, charging up the Bosch Mountains and breaking the Nazi lines with cold bayonets.
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He's home, Ben Nagashi, with a purple heart, a silver star, a division citation, and a distinguished service cross.
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That is an excellent story.
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But now, please tell us what did the general say?
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My dad, I told you.
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Oh, the general didn't say a darn thing.
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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.
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My son has uniform of warrior and imagination of poetry.
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Oh, Bama.
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Poor gosh, then which general was it?
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Isenhower a passion.
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Neither, my brother, was General Mark Clark, a great guy.
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Oh, Mama, you make rice like nobody else in the world.
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Thank you, my son.
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Mitsu.
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You don't eat, you don't say anything.
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I thought sure that by the time I'd get home, you'd have lots to say.
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She has no change.
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Thank God for that.
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As far as I can see, nothing's changed.
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Mitsu, all of you.
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The house, fields.
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How many gyms did you shoot all together?
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How many, fam?
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Jews?
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Yeah, that's taboo, Georgie.
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Remember?
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He has been waiting for you so eagerly then.
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Sure, Mitsu.
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Someday I'll tell you all about it, kid.
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Right now, well, how did the tomatoes do this year, Papa?
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It was so dark driving up, I was so excited I didn't even look or anything.
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Well, you haven't answered me.
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I want the tomatoes this year.
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We didn't have time for much fun.
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Why not?
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Your father and mother and brother just got that bank.
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Bank with.
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Oh.
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The concentration camp.
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Leado Kissing behind Bob Wire.
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What's the difference?
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Much has been happening.
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I'd forgotten what had been happening to all of you.
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Banzanaro was not there.
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I know that country.
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Desert.
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My father and my brother and my mother and my girl stuck out in the desert.
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I tell you, when I first heard about it, I almost went crazy.
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Took it out of me killing Germans.
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It's a good one, huh?
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We have no business.
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Why not?
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With second generation citizens of German and Italian origin thrown out of their homes and stuck behind Bob Wine in the desert?
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It was a talking, a panic.
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They did what they thought was best at the moment.
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Fine, Mitchell, fine.
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Turn the other cheek.
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The meat shall inherit the earth.
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They flew a squad of us from Italy to Belson and we saw the ashes of 50,000 of the meat.
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And saw the meat piled up like cordwood with the children of the meat, a meat little piled of their own.
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I saw them all.
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Oh my.
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Oh.
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I'm sorry.
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Please, chicken, wine, please eat.
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We have been home twenty-four hours.
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Twenty-four hours.
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Yes, only a day.
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But as you yourself see, everything is as it was.
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Now we can stay here forever.
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No bitterness.
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Only future.
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May we drink one more glass of wine and then go out into the field?
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All right.
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Then my glasses are wrong.
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My eldest son returned one.
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The words to be said are yours.
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All right.
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Someone else said them before me.
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Is the United States of America right or wrong?
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My country.
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Yes, sir.
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The devil, the devil, William.
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is our Joe War.
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You have just heard the beginning of a play titled The Family Magashi.
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It is based upon material furnished me by our government.
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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.
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If you continue to listen, you will hear a drama that should be as close to you as your own heart.
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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.
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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.
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This then is a story not about Japanese Americans, but about Americans.
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Even as I struggled with him, my thoughts were why this?
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Why this?
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And suddenly the years were there again.
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It was as if I were old.
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Sometimes ago, thirty-five years ago.
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Oh so macaya America.
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One of my countrymen saying, I remember, yes, this is America, you young fool.
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Young fool.
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Yes, both, unhappy.
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America at that.
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Here one grew rich without trying.
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And in just a little while I would be rich, and I would return to Japan with my business.
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Here you're born, you're keeping a dollar not spending money.
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Take it or I don't mind if you leave.
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Young and a fool.
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E B C E So much to learn.
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So much to do.
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Japanese, Japanese, Japanese.
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So Romney.
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Yes.
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So Hiroshi Nakashima.
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Why not bring her over or a right?
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Yes, my friend's advice.
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The daughter of Yiroshi Nagashima.
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Right from Japan.
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It can be arranged for money.
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A great deal of money.
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Work, work, more work.
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Eat it all, see this all work day and night.
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Until at last Kanichiwa.
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Little tako.
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I was only no more.
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Mapana Oki Machi Wasamuchi.
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Yes, Taka.
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I remember you say a city frightened you.
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You weren't green, bird.
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So we came out here.
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Oh it was such wilderness then.
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I said to you we will live here a little while, then we will go back to our Japan.
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Go back.
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With each year our hearts went further into the land.
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Thirty-five years into the land.
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Into America.
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The land was wilderness, barren.
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My wife and I and my son made it further.
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Our life.
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And that is why there's so much fury in my son.
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He knows.
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Oh God help him.
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My God, I gotta get my gun.
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No, no!
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I am not frightened.
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At my son's anger I feel only pain.
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If I was mother, mother, this would not be.
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I could go to their mothers, I could say to them, it is true my husband and I have not been as you.
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I have been here almost lifetime, yet I can hardly speak your language.
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It is true we have not been as you, but my sons are as you.
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Ah no, you kid won't matter.
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I wanted to be as you go among you.
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First you faster me.
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You were also very large and so very sure of yourself.
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I wanted to know you, for you to know me.
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But I did not know how to start.
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And the years went quick.
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Oh, but my sons, I watched them.
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They were as you.
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Hey, Ma, all that stuff about the Japanese emperor being a god, you don't believe that Balarki, do you?
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So much like you.
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Education that my children must have to be as you know all things about this strange great land, of which I know so little.
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Hey, Mom, I can recite the alphabet forwards and backwards faster than anybody in our life.
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Hey, Mom, I know what California is bounded by and the Indians sold the island of Manhattan to the Dutch for$24.
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Big bargain, oh.
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In every year, so very much like you.
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Hey, Mom, I had a home run today.
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Two men on base and I had a home run.
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Hey, Mom, I just got$15.
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And Joe says they'll tell me his jalapi for$20.
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Can I do it, Mom?
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Can I do it?
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So very much like you.
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Yeah, sure, Pop.
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California Aggie's school is a place for me.
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I'm a hay seed from way back, and I might as well learn how to do it right.
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Well, I started at right tackle, but they put me at left half, and this season I'll be the blocking guy.
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But next season the closest I can carry them.
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How about using the car tonight, Pop?
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I gotta cut a rug with a new dish to set out.
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So much like you, but I will same.
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My gosh, Mom, at least you'll learn how to write English after all these years.
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Well, gosh, what if I had to go away someplace and you had to write me a letter?
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Only same.
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Not American, not quite Japanese.
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As I watched your anger and your hate, I knew only same, my son.
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If I was only another sort of mother for you.
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Let go of me! My God, I gotta get my gun!
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Please.
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Until that moment, I had never seen you angry before then.
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I'd known you ever since we were small children.
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And I've never seen you angry.
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No.
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You must have been angry once then.
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Okay, it's a fashion.
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So the family went back to the car because they know I wanted to find a couple of things.
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Darling, I don't know where it'll bring where it's sending.
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Sure if I know I'll let you.
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I wish we got married before I left.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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Married because I wanted you so long.
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There's never been anybody else but you.
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I love you.
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I wanted I said so little to you, and finally so much.
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Mr.
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Listen, a little while for me, it's already kept things straight out of making pretty rugged.
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I mean, back here, hot-headed patriots.
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But don't let it get you down.
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I won't last long.
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Folks around here know the family Nagashi's okay.
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You're part of that family.
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Because I love you.
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I love you so much.
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No.
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No hate.
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Okay, okay.
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So you're a citizen.
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It doesn't make any difference.
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You have 12 hours to get out of this part of the camp where you belong.
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But I had that hate thing.
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That's too fast, sister.
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You'll have to leave all that stuff behind.
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In the bus, step ladling.
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This camp will be your home indefinitely.
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You're not allowed outside the confines of the barbed wire.
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Stuff your mattresses with straw, step ladling.
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I'm sorry.
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Governor didn't issue any of those for you.
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I'm sorry, we haven't got any of that.
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I'm sorry, we haven't got any.
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I'm sorry, we haven't got any.
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I never wrote you anything.
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I never wrote you about the worst day at all.
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Darwin, please.
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Could you meet me in Chicago next Sunday?
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Get married with love family.
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I'm sorry, Miss.
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It is quite beyond my authority to permit you to leave the relocation center for any such reason.
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I sympathize with you, but my orders are explicit.
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You must stay within the confines of the camp until further notice.
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Such bitterness and hatred.
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I haven't them anymore.
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Now you have some.
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It is very late, my son.
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They will not return.
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I want to sit out here.
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The gun.
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But let's be putting to wait now.
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Wait a minute.
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It is a welcome home committee.
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Welcome home, Ben Nagashi.
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You've been away a long time.
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You got a belly full of Salano mud and mortar shells and hiny mines and barred four tanks.
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So here's a fatted cap in our hands and friendship.
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Thanks, pal.
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How's the crops?
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You want some help?
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So I hate him.
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I'll kill them all when I'm coming back.
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When you're playing that way, I didn't like that one.
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After you'd gone, I went back to the library.
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I wanted to work.
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There was some new books for me to catalog.
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The first one I page open on a poem about Albert Nathan.
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I read it so many times in everyone.
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About the boys going to war.
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Where are they going?
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They smile and wave goodbye.
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Young faces passing by on their way into history.
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Looking for something like a war.
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Like the mother face of America.
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And a lonely girl there on the platform on her way back to school after the holidays.
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She waits too.
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Although she does not know why.
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It would be friends of her if she was They're all young together, going by, going away, asking each other.
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Going away forever.
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Then all the time you were away when I talk about men overseas changing, I said nothing.
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And I at first you laughed the same.
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You talked the same when it happened.
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No.
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If you want to hurt and kill them, whoever they were, whatever they said, what does it matter?
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You are back, and I'm here.
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Isn't that enough?
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Did you hear them?
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You're nothing now but a Jap.
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I know this.
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I got a gun in my hand and they'll come back.
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A dirty little fashion.
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Listen, two Carlos this time.
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Into the house.
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Get in there, I tell you.
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I won't.
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Up there.
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Okay.
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Well, I got reinforcements now.
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It's all right with me.
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Then, then I've heard automobiles.
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Oh.
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I knew they'd be back.
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Ben, do not do anything.
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Not yet.
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Let's lie, turn on the portslight.
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I want to see their faces.
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Turn it on.
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Stay?
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They're not strangers at all.
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Our neighbors.
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Tried and true.
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Did you ever return the stone hammer I like you, Mr.
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Greer?
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How are you, Mr.
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Randall?
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Joe's still got the football we wanted, the Fresno game.
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To Horton?
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To Hoss?
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To Ames?
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To Alberti?
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Red Mark.
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How are you, Mr.
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Parks?
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Maybe you'd like me to come over and save your fruit trees again.
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No, I've been waiting three years to get home and talk to you.
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What's your hurry?
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Why not be sociable about it?
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The Nagashis have been here for 30 years.
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A couple of minutes more won't poison your purity.
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Or maybe you don't like to see me standing here in this uniform.
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Okay, I'll take it off.
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You can have it, including the ribbons.
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Ben, we would have been here sooner, but we only heard that you were home, that your family came back.
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We only heard just a little while ago what happened here tonight.
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We know who they are, Ben.
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They're not anyone you know or who knew you.
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What they did, they did because they were ignorant little minds who think they see a chance to get your land.
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It won't happen.
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We'll take care of them.
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But most of all we're here to say welcome home, Ben.
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Welcome home.
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You will forgive my son for going away.
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His heart is so full.
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Perhaps tomorrow.
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So we are here.
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How soon will you again be removing in the angel one my son?
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Drive alright.
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It was like egg in cold stones.
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So a mother has a funny joke.
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Come, George, Mitchell.
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Ben, are you getting on?
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Go ahead, please, I'll be.
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Please, Sam, let me see.
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Ben, it isn't good.
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Please come in with us.
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What reason is they're not?
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Come, my son.
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Mother?
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George?
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Isn't them coming to church?
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I do not know.
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It is a new use word.
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A word weary with repetition with mishuman.
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Evil is hidden behind it and will hide behind it again unless we die.
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I cried.
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And we who were tolerant.
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And so evil began to cover the earth with a philosophy of rising sun.
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Begin to question not our foolishness, but our tolerance.
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And so we began to give some of our hate to tolerance.
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And so tolerance became a word of soft.
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Soft things.
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And an easy indulgence across the world of bloody soul.
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My friend.
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The time has come for re-examination and re-application of tolerance.
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Now we must have a tolerance of strength.
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A tolerance that denies the very right of existence to evil.
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But that grants to every man the right of existence if that right is based in the common brotherhood of man.
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What took place last night.
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Come in, my neighbors.
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We were hoping you would join us.
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Come.
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We will take our seat.
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Welcome home.
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Thank you.
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Welcome back.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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We uh we have seen some fun for you.
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Please.
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If we might sit in our old places, of course, just as you like.
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Thank you.
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Is here, Mama First, George, Mitsu?
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Welcome home, Mrs.
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Magashi.
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Glad to see you back.
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Good to see you.
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Welcome home.
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May we fire down, please.
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From all of us, Mr.
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and Mrs.
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Magashi, a hearty welcome home.
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Thank you.
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Each of us has a personal debt to Ben.
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Uh Ben is not with you.
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He is outside.
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Outside?
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Mr.
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Gardner, Mr.
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Jackson.
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Would you go out and ask Ben Legarsi if he would come in?
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Mr.
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Nagasi, I should go out and help him.
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No, Mr.
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North Sidney.
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Because I wish it.
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Papa, he's coming in.
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Papa, why is everybody standing up?
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Why is everybody standing up?
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Why?
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They are honoring the other.
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Sam.
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Would you come up here?
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Please.
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I was talking about intolerance before you came in.
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I don't know if I'm qualified to speak about it.
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All my life I've been accepted.
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Family, I mean your stuff.
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My skin, my religion.
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Everything conformed, so I've never really known intolerance.
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After last night.
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Talk to us then.
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Say whatever you want to say to us.
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You have the right to speak to us in any way you seek.
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Whatever I'd like to say.
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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.
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But just maybe it was a few seconds.
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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.
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I was wrong because yesterday I knew a worse kind of trouble than anything that the Nazis ever did to me.
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Even in the dirtiest foxhole I'd had a place because I was an American, no matter where I was, I had that.
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But yesterday somebody broke a window and yelled some words at me.
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All in a minute I had nothing.
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And my father and my mother were given their lives to me to have something.
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They had nothing.
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The pain was as if somebody was tearing every one of my nerves out by the roots.
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And nobody could get to me, and I lay there in the pain went on and on, never stopping.
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I tried to knock myself out to stop it, but I couldn't.
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In the middle of it all, I suddenly thought, stay with it.
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Nothing will ever hurt you as much ever again.
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Nothing will ever hurt you as much, ever again.
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I was wrong again.
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Yesterday while I was hating you and hating this place and the whole country.
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Some of you came over to tell me what had happened, but it wasn't you.
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Wasn't you wanting us out and hating us?
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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.
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That you knew that inside we were the same.
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I'll never think any differently as long as I live.
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No matter what happens from here I am.
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How many windows break?
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What word do they throw at me?
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Oh I believe in you.
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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.
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Announcer Dick Wynn.
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The original music was composed and conducted by Jack Meakin.