War Comes to America Page #2

in the hot southern sun.

Of the Spaniard, the first to roam

the great southwest...

...of the Mexican in the oil fields of Texas.

And on the ranches of New Mexico.

Of the Greek and the Portuguese

harvesting the crop the ocean yielded.

Of the German with his technical skills.

Of the Hungarian and the Russian.

Of the Irish, the Slav and the Chinese

working side by side.

The sweat of Americans,

and a great nation was built.

Yes, the sweat of all nations built

America and the blood.

For the blood of Americans

has been freely shed.

Five times in our history, have we withstood

The challenge to the idea that made our nation.

The idea for all men of life,

liberty and the pursuit happiness.

The idea that made us, the people we are.

Let's take a look at ourselves,

before we went into this war.

Well, first of all, we're a working people,

on the land, at a workbench, at a desk.

And we're an inventive people.

The lightening rod,

...the cotton gin, the telegraph,

...the blessed anaesthesia of ether,

...the rotary printing press,

the telephone,

...electric welding,

the incandescent lamp,

...submarine, steam turbine,

the motor driven airplane,

the x-ray tube,

the gyroscope compass,

the sewing machine,

...and television. All these, and countless

more bear witness to our invent ness.

And this intentness and enterprise,

plus our hard-won democratic ideals for

the greatest good for the greatest number,

...created for the average man the highest

standard of living in the world.

32 and a half million registered automobiles,

Two-thirds of all the automobiles

there are in the world.

We demand the highest standards

in sanitation,

...purity of food, medical care.

Our hospitals are marvels

for the world to copy.

We want the best for the average

man, woman and child.

Particularly child. We have

reduced the hazard of being born,

From then on we protect, foster and generally

spoil the majority of our children.

But it doesn't seem to hurt them much.

They go to school,

...all kinds of schools.

To kindergarten,

...public schools, private schools,

trade schools,

...high schools, to 25,000 high schools,

...and to college.

In the last war, 20% of all the men in

the armed forces had been to high school or college.

In this war, 63%.

We're a great two-weeks vacation people.

We hunt and we fish, up north

and down south,

...back east, out west. When the season

opens, we hunt and fish.

We're a sports-loving people.

And we're probably the travel

ingest nation in all history...

...we love to go places.

We have the cars, we have the roads,

we have the scenery.

We don't need passports,

but sometimes we need alibis.

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