War Comes to America Page #3

We sleep by the road, we eat by the road.

The foreigner is enchanted and amazed

at what we like to put on our stomach's.

And we're a great joining people,

we join clubs.

Fraternities, unions, federations.

Shove a blank at us, we'll sign up.

Radios, we have on in the living room,

...the dining room,

...the bedroom,

...the bathroom, in our cars,

...in our hands and up our sleeves.

Music. We couldn't be without it.

The Press? Yes, it's the biggest.

But most important,

it's the freest on earth.

Over 12,000 newspapers,

with all shades of opinions.

Books on ever-conceivable subject.

And more than 6000 different magazines.

Not counting the comics.

Churches?

We have every denomination on earth.

60 million of us, regularly attend.

And no one dares tell us,

which one to go to.

We elect our own neighbors to govern us.

We believe in individual enterprise

and opportunities, for men and women alike.

We make mistakes, we see the results.

We correct the mistakes.

We skyrocket into false prosperities,

...and then plummet down into false

needless depressions.

But in spite of everything, we never

lose our faith in the future.

We believe in the future,

we build for the future.

Yes, we build for the future and

the future always catches up with us.

Before we're done building, we've developed

something new, and have to start rebuilding.

That's roughly the kind of people we are.

Boasting, easy-going, sentimental,

but underneath,

...passionately dedicated to the ideals

our forefathers passed on to us.

The liberty and dignity of man.

We've made great material progress, but

Spiritually we're still in the frontier days.

Yet deep down in us, there is a yearning

for peace and good-will toward men.

Somehow we feel, that if men thru their

minds towards the fields of peace,

...as they have towards the fields

of transportation,

...communication or aviation,

...wars would soon be old-fashioned

as the horse and buggy days.

We hate war. We know that in war,

it is the common man who does the paying.

The suffering, the dying. We bend over

backwards to avoid it.

But let our freedoms be endanger, and we'll

pay and suffer and fight to the last man.

That is the American. That is the way

of living, For which we fight today.

Why?

Is that fight necessary?

Did we want war?

In 1917, before most of you

fighting men were born,

our fathers fought the first World War to make the

world safe for democracies, for the common man.

They fought a good fight and won it.

There was to be no more war in their time,

and their childrers time.

Faithful to our treaty obligations, we

destroyed much of our naval tonnage.

Our army went on a reducing diet,

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