English subtitles for clip: File:Down Liberty Road (1956).webm

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[heroic music]

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Never seen such a war. Johnny Reb don't get you, the Indians will!

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We'll get this California gold through and General Grant will have our scalps anyway. Push him through, Sergeant.

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Yes, sir.

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[Indian war screams]

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[gunfire]

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[guitar music and singing] I sing as I wander along on the lonely road.

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There's a song in my heart as I'm totin' my weary load.

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Over mountain and desert and valley,

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with the wind-followed compass I see

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that I'm on the right road, that mine is a light load for me.

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Thanks, thanks to the heroes before me I'm free as the breeze.

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I go wherever I please, with my song along freedom road! [song ends]

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Gone are the dark days of the war between the states.

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Gone too are the rumbling wagon wheels on the old pioneer trails.

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Today other wheels are rolling on the super highways of modern America.

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This is a story of America and some of the people along the way.

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The people could be you or me or the neighbor next door.

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That is all except one.

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The story begins on a California highway near San Francisco.

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Meet Jimmy Rollins of Seattle on his way to Washington D.C. and his first Boy Scout Jamboree.

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He's getting a king-sized thrill out of the ever-changing view of America through these big picture windows.

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[adventurous, upbeat music]

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How does it look to you so far, son?

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It's the greatest!

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Take this highway for instance. It follows the coast all the way down to San Diego.

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And then remember it's the same road the Spaniards followed almost 200 years ago.

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Only they called it El Camino Real, King's Highway. Try and imagine how it looked then.

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You mean with Spaniards on horseback?

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In your own mind, son, yes.

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Fred Schroeder of Portland, Oregon also has his place in this story of America.

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Summoned to the nation's capital to receive a medal for his only son, Fred Schroeder should be a proud man. He isn't.

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[fanfare]

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Oh boy, look at that.

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[fanfare]

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It's the longest single-span bridge in the world.

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Gee whiz.

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[flute music]

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Aren't you even going to look at it?

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Look at what? It's only the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Only?

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[sad string music; jolly fanfare]

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Sure doesn't look like the old west.

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Well, maybe not here and now, but they tell me you should have seen it a hundred years ago.

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San Francisco was the old west then. See that street sign up ahead?

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Sutter Street.

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Behind that sign I see Sutter's Mill, the Valley of the Sacramento. The year is 1848.

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John Sutter's workmen were digging a new mill race in the river and found gold.

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Sutter tried hard to keep it quiet, knowing it meant trouble, but it was like fighting a prairie fire with a bucket.

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People came from everywhere, from way beyond the far Missouri, the Mississippi, and the Monongahela.

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Even the Rockies couldn't stop the rush for gold.

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Where there was no road, it was block and tackle and just plain old willpower.

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Skimming over our highways today in air-conditioned comfort, it's hard to realize what those 49ers went through to get here.

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A lot of them didn't make it, but the rest kept coming.

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It went on and on until the River of the Sacramento and all the runs and cricks were swarming with men seeking California gold.

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See, I can almost see it.

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Boy, I wonder what happened to all that gold.

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I can tell you what happened to some of it.

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This man is another figure in our story of America, perhaps the greatest of them all.

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Mark him well. In his way, he is to affect the lives of several people.

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During the war between the states, both the North and the South badly needed that gold.

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Once General Grant sent a detachment to bring through a wagon train of it.

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They were massacred by Indians.

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It's all part of our American history now, Jimmy. History we can be proud of.

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How did you know my name was Jimmy?

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Isn't he a little young for propaganda?

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Well, I never thought of patriotism as having an age limit.

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Why shouldn't we be proud of our history, Mr. Schroeder?

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Even as late as that of Korea.

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What do you mean by that?

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San Francisco terminal, 40 minutes for lunch.

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Well, Jimmy, let's see what's on the menu, huh?

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Bye!

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So long, Jimmy. Say hello to the President for me.

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Where did I pick him up?

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Bus for Sacramento/Chicago please, number 187. All aboard.

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Thank you.

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Is that your number? 14?

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No, young fellow, that's my safety record.

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Like you earn a badge in scouting.

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That means I've driven for 14 years and never even dented a fender.

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You must be pretty good.

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Oh, there are plenty longer records than that.

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The men who drive for Greyhound are proud they've made it the safest transportation in the land.

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Who's the proprietor around here?

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Where to, please?

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Philadelphia.

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Thank you.

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Hi there, General.

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Hey, aren't you Bill Roberts of the Philadelphia Eagles?

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Could be.

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Excuse me. — Oh.

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He's a professional football player.

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Thank you.

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Humble.

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Oh, I'm sorry.

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That's all right.

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Wrong way Roberts does it again.

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Thank you.

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Thanks, Coach.

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Anyway, I don't have to be in Philly for a week to sign the contract, so I thought I'd see the country.

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I hear it's quite a country.

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It is.

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You, uh, you live in New York?

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I work there. I've been home on vacation in San Francisco.

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Me too.

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Funny you know.

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A couple of natives and we gotta go out of town to meet.

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Funny, isn't it?

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Say, look, it's only a hop from Philadelphia to New York.

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How about seeing the big town together?

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Why, uh, I, uh, I'll be pretty busy.

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Oh.

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Oh, I see.

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Guess I was offside, huh?

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Mind if we have a little talk?

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What about?

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You have a problem, so have I.

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I thought we might be able to help each other find the answers.

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I know the answer to mine.

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Are you sure you didn't look in the back of the wrong book?

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Hey Bill, look at this.

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Excuse me, my public.

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[laughter]

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Look, there's another one.

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"Route of the Pony Express"

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It's all right here in my book.

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"Riders of the Pony Express"

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That's right, Sacramento was the western end of it, you know.

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And St. Joe, Missouri was the eastern end.

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Here it is.

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Listen.

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The first telegraph line had been strung as far west as St. Joe, Missouri.

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From there on, the mail had to be carried by stagecoach.

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It was 2,000 miles from St. Joe to Sacramento.

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It took weeks and months, and then they didn't always get through.

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That's when the Pony Express was organized.

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People said it couldn't be done, but it was.

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Eighty daring young riders, many in their teens, and 500 thorough-bred horses.

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They had stations on the way so a rider could change horses every 30 to 40 miles.

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These pony riders would start out from St. Joe with a pistol and a pair of rope, and the Sacramento mail.

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No matter what the difficulties, the dangers, or the obstacles, the riders went through.

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Boy, was that terrific.

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You know, you can almost see those ponies.

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I wish I would have been living then.

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How old are you, young man?

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Thirteen, sir.

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Thirteen. Ten years ago!

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He liked the west too.

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Who, Mr. Schroeder?

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He was a boy scout.

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We couldn't wait to get him a new uniform either.

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Easy, Schroeder. Look at this guy. Don't you like this country, mister?

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No, Bill.

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If you want to fight for it, they'll give you a uniform too.

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I put mine away after Korea. Any more questions?

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I think it's time for some answers, Bill.

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Mr. Schroeder's only son was killed in Korea. He just found out how.

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The boy's been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

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Mr. Schroeder's on his way to Washington to accept it.

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I'm sorry, sir. I didn't know.

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I didn't know anybody here.

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Congressional Medal of Honor.

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Guys, that's the highest there is.

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Is it?

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You know, this is one of the few towns in the world that never sleeps.

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They all come here to gamble.

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Or because they have gambled and lost.

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You mean...

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I mean, a person ought to be real sure she's marrying the right guy.

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Waldo's a fine man. And he has good prospects too.

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Waldo?

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Besides, he's my boss.

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I'm sure he's a good, dependable guy, but do you have fun together?

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Of course.

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Well, I'm sure you do.

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But do you have fun together?

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Of course. Well, not frivolous, but...

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Oh, well, frivolous is the best kind sometimes.

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That's where I could be a help.

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Where's the rest of your troops, son? They lost too?

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No, sir. They went on ahead.

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My dog was sick and I couldn't leave till it got better.

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Oh, good for you, son.

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I like a fellow I could depend on, even if I was a dog.

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Say, aren't you Tex Ritter, the movie cowboy?

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That's my brand.

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I saw you get on at Laramie.

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I've been doing personal appearances, Denver and places.

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I wish I could hear you in person.

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Well, could you?

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Well, now, maybe I could. Just one short one.

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Did you ever hear the legend of the Alamo?

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I don't know.

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Did you ever hear of Davy Crockett?

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Oh, sure.

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Well, this song here is about Davy and the Alamo.

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Now, you try to imagine that you're in San Antonio, Texas, while I sing about it.

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[song] Alamo and the stubborn band that stood in the path of invasion

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A hundred and eighty were challenged by Travis to die

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By the line that he drew with his sword when the battle was nigh

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And young Davy Crockett was first to cross over with a gallantry, fierce in his eye

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Forgotten for freedom a man more than willing to die

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Hi, Santa Anna, we're killing your soldiers below

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That men, wherever they go, will remember the Alamo

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They sent a young scout through the battle much bloody and loud

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With the words of farewell from a garrison valiant and proud

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Grieve not, little darling, my dying

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If Texas is sovereign and free

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We'll never surrender and never with liberty be

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Hi, Santa Anna, we're killing your soldiers below

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That men, wherever they go, will remember the Alamo [song ends; applause from passengers]

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Even our songs glorify senseless sacrifice.

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What good did it do those few men to fight on when they knew they'd all be killed anyway?

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If I'd known the answer to that for sure, I wouldn't be here.

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I don't understand you.

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You will. Before this trip's over, I promise you.

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Honest, Mary. That's the way it is.

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Oh, Bill. Right when I thought I had my life all planned and ordered.

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Why did you have to come along?

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I'm awful glad I did. Aren't you?

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I don't know.

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That's why I like this kind of travel.

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To me, every mile of America is a magnificent mile.

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Especially when you can see it close up like we're doing.

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But you've got to give me more time.

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Time? Time I'm running fresh out of.

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Gee, Mary, I can't let you just walk out of my life.

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This trip will be over before you know it.

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You see, we're coming into Chicago now.

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That's Lake Michigan.

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Oh?

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Yeah, that lake saved a good many lives once.

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It did?

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To look at it the way it is today, it's hard to realize that right here in 1871

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was the scene of the most destructive fire there ever was.

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Thousands of people saved themselves by wading out into the lake,

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where the smoke turned day into night and the flames turned night into day.

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All because Ms. O'Leary's cow kicked over that lantern.

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But the city rebuilt, bigger and better than ever.

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With only a few landmarks left to show where the great fire was.

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Well, I see we're pulling in.

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I'll be leaving you in Chicago.

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You can get off and look around if you want to.

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You'll have a little time here.

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Well, then goodbye, Mr. Ritter.

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Just wait until the troop hears that I rode this far with you.

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Pleasure's all mine, Jimmy. Be a good scout.

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Well, goodbye, Tex. — So long, partner.

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Say, I know where I've seen you before.

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Was that so?

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Weren't you in my outfit, the old second division?

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Well, we'll have lunch in Cleveland.

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Cleveland already?

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Why is it time flies so when you're happy and drags so when you're unhappy?

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It ought to be the other way around.

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Hurry up when you're unhappy and slow down when you're happy so you can enjoy it.

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You're a funny girl.

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What do you mean, funny peculiar or funny ha-ha?

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I mean funny wonderful.

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Hey, Bill.

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Oh, so it's pirates now, huh?

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You know, I've been down where a lot of these fellas used to hang out.

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Honest? Where?

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Florida Keys.

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Keys?

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Yeah, that's a string of islands off the southern tip of the United States.

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They're connected by a series of bridges making a highway almost a hundred miles long as the crow flies,

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stretching right out over the ocean all the way to Key West.

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These islands were said to be part of the old Spanish Main.

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Like it says here in your book.

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Among these keys and coves, buccaneers used to lie and wait

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till a fat merchantman came along or a rival pirate crew, whereupon they would grapple in a furious fight.

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[gunfire]

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[gunfire]

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[shouting]

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But there's a lot of buried treasure down there.

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Could be. Of course, the important thing is to recognize a treasure when you find one.

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We certainly made good time on the Pennsylvania turnpike.

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Getting in a hurry now that your trip's almost over?

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Oh, no. I mean...

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I mean, I'm really enjoying seeing the country.

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Well, remember one thing. In this country, a woman has a right to change her mind.

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Now we're coming to the post house. Last stop before Philadelphia.

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Well, if we'd have been here 180 years ago, we might still have eaten Philadelphia scrapple and cherry pie.

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I doubt if we'd have been drinking iced coffee.

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No.

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There wouldn't have been this many people, I bet.

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Well, you're right. Although the roads were all pretty well traveled in 1776,

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bringing delegates to the Continental Congress. They came from all corners of the 13 colonies.

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By stage, by colonial coach, and by horseback.

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Men who were on their way to keep their date with history.

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And naturally, there were delegates from Boston to report firsthand on Massachusetts' answer to the stamp tax.

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A secret organization of patriots. We'd call them underground today.

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Sons of Liberty staged the famous Boston Tea Party.

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Disguised as Indians, they threw three shiploads of heavily taxed tea into the harbor.

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So the delegates were gathering in a building that still stands in Philadelphia.

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Their meetings were stormy and exciting.

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Some of the colonists felt they weren't being so badly treated by standards of the old country.

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But over here, the people were beginning to breathe the exhilarating air of freedom.

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It was a new idea in the world, and they liked it.

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But it was a dangerous idea to espouse.

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[cheering]

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The signing of the Declaration of Independence, making all men free and equal.

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[triumphant, somber music]

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Why so large a signature, my friend?

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So John Bull may read my name without his spectacles.

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We must hang together, or else most assuredly we'll all hang separately.

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[funny music; bells ringing]

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You can see that same Liberty Bell in Philadelphia today.

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Independence Hall, where America became the first free nation on earth.

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Hey, I want to go get some chewing gum.

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Go ahead.

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We'd better get back to the bus.

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I imagine your son was a lot like that.

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A lot.

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I have an idea.

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You know, there are shrines and memorials to all our wars.

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America is still paying the price for liberty even to this year of 1900 and now.

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Let's get to the point. — Gladly.

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I think we ought to take a short side trip, you and I.

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There's a bus waiting.

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Trust me, you'll be glad of it for the rest of your life.

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All right.

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[hopeful music]

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So it is that when the rest of the party rolls into Philadelphia,

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Schroeder and the friendly stranger are missing.

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And these two have a problem of their own growing more acute by the moment.

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Okay. I'll stick around while you phone him.

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Yes. Yes dear.

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All right.

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Goodbye Waldo.

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Mary?

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Did you tell him about us?

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I couldn't. Not just like that.

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Maybe that'll help you make up your mind.

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Thanks. It does.

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You and your football manners!

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So it is with confused emotions that Mary returns to New York.

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To her pleasant career girl routine and to Waldo.

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[bus pulls in]

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Mary?

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Hello Waldo.

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Welcome. Thrice welcome.

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We better get out of here. I have something in this box for you.

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I'll take your luggage.

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Excuse us please.

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I trust you feel completely rejuvenated.

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There are a great many things at the office that require attention.

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What's the matter?

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Waldo, I've got to tell you something.

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Yes my dear.

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Then I'll be going back to Philadelphia.

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To Philadelphia?

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[football music]

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You did say three o'clock didn't you?

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He better be here at three and he better sign that contract.

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He will.

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We'll need the money.

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Good news, honey!

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Here I am.

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You can tell the old man.

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Mary.

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But, but, but you…

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Now what kind of language is that?

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Waldo. What about Waldo?

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Does that answer your question?

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The ring never belonged there in the first place.

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Belonged to my mother really.

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I just switched it.

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Well Bill Roberts you've got the ball.

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Now carry it.

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[romantic music]

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This is the mysterious destination to which the stranger has lured Fred Schroeder.

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What connection is there between this bit of Pennsylvania countryside and far-off Korea?

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I still don't know why you wanted me to come here.

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I wanted us both to come here because there's a message here we both need.

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What message? Who are you anyway?

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Come to think of it I don't even know your name.

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Almost a hundred years ago when he came to Gettysburg

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he was in this very town.

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You're comfortable, Mr. President?

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Mrs. Wilson and I want this night to be as easy for you as it will be memorable for us.

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That's very kind of you Judge.

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I'm afraid they'll expect you to make a few remarks Mr. President.

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I better save my few remarks for tomorrow.

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Is there anything else?

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No, yes there is something else.

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Would you request the band to play Dixie for me?

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Dixie? Mr. President?

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Dixie sir? Somehow I think it would be a fitting thing at this time in this place.

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[band plays]

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Fellow citizens, the President is very tired and he'd like to be excused until tomorrow.

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He asks that the band play Dixie.

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Dixie? What does he mean by that?

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Does he know that Gettysburg is in Pennsylvania?

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[band plays Dixie]

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Oh that, they seem to like it.

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Why not? It's a mighty fine tune.

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I think you can hear it here. Listen.

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I don't hear anything.

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I don't think.

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Listen. From beside that monument.

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That's where Abraham Lincoln stood to deliver his Gettysburg address.

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You can hear the murmur of the crowd gathered before the speaker's platform.

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They're quieting now. He's coming forward.

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You can hear him now.

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Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation,

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conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.

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We are met on a great battlefield of that war.

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We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live.

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That from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

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That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

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That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.

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And that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.

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Did you hear that, Schroeder? Did you hear that? That was the message we both needed.

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These dead shall not have died in vain. They wonder sometimes, those who gave that last full measure of devotion,

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if the people who inherited this country are worth the sacrifice.

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Well, I've seen both now. I've seen the country and the people. They're worthy of each other.

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You've made me understand, too. You have made me proud. Proud and humble.

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I'm glad. Look after Jimmy, will you? I'll see you in Washington.

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Of course. And I want to thank you.

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It was nice of you to come and get me.

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I wanted you here with me, Jimmy. That's the tomb of the unknown soldier.

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Is the guard always there? Always.

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And over there lie other heroes, the unknown of the war between the states and other wars.

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Is this were we are supposed to meet him?

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I thought we might. He said he'd see us again. Come to think of it, he didn't say we'd see him.

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He was kind of strange, but nice. I wonder what he does.

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I don't know, Jimmy. But whatever it is, I have a feeling his job is done.

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And to think we never even knew his name.

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His name, like the words of President Harding when he dedicated this spot,

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the name of him whose body lies here took flight with his imperishable soul.

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We know only that his death marks him with the everlasting glory of an American who died for his country.