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Academy Award Ep12 Pride of the Marines · Academy Award

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Speaker 1: The House of Squibb, manufacturing chemist of the medical profession
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Speaker 1: Garfield in Pride of the Marines with Rosemary DeCamp. Pride
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Speaker 1: of the Marines is the dramatic picture which was nominated
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Speaker 1: for the 1945 Academy Award. as the Best Britain Screenplay
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Speaker 1: of the Year. Our star, Mr. Garfield, was nominated as
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Speaker 1: the Best Supporting Actor of the Year for the 1938
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Speaker 1: Academy Award.
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Speaker 2: This is the story of an heroic Marine... In its way,
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Speaker 2: it's the story of other heroic American fighting men, too,
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Speaker 2: whose qualities in battle, whose qualities in the even grimmer
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Speaker 2: struggle for rehabilitation made these American soldiers the pride of
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Speaker 2: the free world. This is the story of a boy
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Speaker 2: who's the pride of the Marines, Al Schmidt, United States
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Speaker 2: Marine Corps.
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Speaker 2: The story of Al Schmidt begins on an island where
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Speaker 2: the scourge of the Japanese advance was first checked. Waddle Canal.
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Speaker 1: They're coming again, Schmidt. Keep down. They'll be coming any
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Speaker 1: minute now. They won't come from where they're shooting. I
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Speaker 1: think they're going to cross the river.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Diamond, how about cutting this gun in?
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Speaker 1: Wait, wait, wait.
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Speaker 4: Now, now, fire!
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Speaker 3: Marine, you die!
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Speaker 1: Marine, you die! Marine, you die! Watch those hand grenades.
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Speaker 1: Let them have it. They got Johnny! They got Johnny! Oh,
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Speaker 1: you yellow-bellied, dainty, stinking, slimy pigs! The best guy in
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Speaker 1: the world! Watch it!
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Speaker 3: Coming in again!
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Speaker 1: Diamond!
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Speaker 2: Diamond! Push me out of your way!
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Speaker 1: Where'd you hit? Where'd you hit? Get me out of
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Speaker 1: your way! I'll stick with it, Stig! Don't let him through!
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Speaker 2: Lee!
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Speaker 1: Don't kick off! I gotta help you! I don't want
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Speaker 1: to be alone, Lee! Dirty skivvies. Try and sneak one
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Speaker 1: up on me, huh? You ain't coming so fast anymore.
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Speaker 1: Don't like what you're getting, do you? Come on, suckers.
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Speaker 2: There's nobody in your way.
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Speaker 1: Just a couple of Marines.
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Speaker 2: Hello?
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Speaker 1: I can't see.
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Speaker 4: Right in the face. My eyes. I can't see.
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Speaker 5: I can't see, Lee.
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Speaker 4: I can't see.
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Speaker 1: Al, don't do it. We'll get help soon. Put down that.
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Speaker 6: 45.
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Speaker 1: Don't shoot yourself.
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Speaker 4: Shoot myself?
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Speaker 1: Just tell me where they are, Lee. Tell me where
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Speaker 1: they're coming from, Lee.
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Speaker 6: Tell me where they are.
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Speaker 2: Back home, a marine sweetheart gets a letter from a
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Speaker 2: sailor aboard a hospital ship. A girl back in Philadelphia
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Speaker 2: hears about Al Schmidt.
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Speaker 6: Dear Ruth, Al asked me to write this letter on
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Speaker 6: account of he can't do any writing now.
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Speaker 5: I am a sailor and I'm taking care of his legs.
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Speaker 5: An infection.
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Speaker 4: But that's clearing up.
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Speaker 5: I will tell you honestly and truly, though, that he
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Speaker 5: is a hero. And I do mean hero.
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Speaker 6: Al says he will be coming home one of these
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Speaker 6: days and hopes to see you real soon.
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Speaker 5: Lots of love, Al Schmidt. You see, folks, he says
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Speaker 5: Al's all right. Then why couldn't Al write himself?
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Speaker 1: And, uh, as for the Red Cross workers here in
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Speaker 1: San Diego Base Hospital, why, uh, why, uh, they're okay,
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Speaker 1: even the blonde one who brings me a letter. But
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Speaker 1: as for me, well, I'll take the girl named Ruth
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Speaker 1: every time.
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Speaker 4: Oh, come on, pal. This is the first letter you've
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Speaker 4: written yourself.
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Speaker 1: Give a little. Big.
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Speaker 4: Think how she wants to come to you.
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Speaker 1: Well, what'll I say?
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Speaker 4: Oh, you want to tell her about your gang?
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Speaker 1: Oh, sure, sure, yeah. We got a great gang of
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Speaker 1: gyrenes here, Ruthie. A lot of them from the canal.
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Speaker 1: Lee Diamond, who was with me, Kababian. Hey, where's that ashtray, Blondie?
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Speaker 4: On the desk, right by your hand. Your right hand, Al.
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Speaker 2: Oh, thanks.
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Speaker 4: How about the rest of the letter?
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Speaker 2: Oh, that's enough.
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Speaker 4: Isn't there anything else you want to tell her, Al?
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Speaker 1: Like what?
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Speaker 4: About your eyes.
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 4: Well, she'll have to know sometime.
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Speaker 1: Look, after I have my operation, after I can see again, well,
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Speaker 1: then I'll tell her. Then it'll be a big laugh
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Speaker 1: for the both of us, understand?
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Speaker 4: You know, there's an operation scheduled for you tomorrow morning.
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Speaker 1: Well, sure, they told me. Bet you thought I'd be
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Speaker 1: scared or something. Well, this is what I've been waiting for.
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Speaker 1: This is going to fix me up.
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Speaker 4: Al, the doctor doesn't promise you'll be able to see
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Speaker 4: after this operation.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you'll have to... He doesn't have to promise. I
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Speaker 1: know them doctors. Like the one on the ship who
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Speaker 1: was always saying I might lose a leg from blood poisoning. Didn't,
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Speaker 1: did I? Here, add something to that letter, will you, Ruthie? Here,
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Speaker 1: to Ruthie. Ruthie, I've been holding out the best news
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Speaker 1: to the end. You keep asking me why I don't
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Speaker 1: write to you myself. Well, the reason is my hands.
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Speaker 1: I caught some shrapnel in them like a dumb bunny.
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Speaker 1: But any day now, you'll be getting a letter every
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Speaker 1: day written by yours truly himself.
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Speaker 4: Al, this isn't any good You're just storing up trouble
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Speaker 4: for yourself, for both of you.
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Speaker 1: Don't be a killjoy, Blondie Here I am on top
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Speaker 1: of the world And take this from me, will you?
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Speaker 1: It won't be long before I come walking up the
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Speaker 1: steps of your house, Ruthie And don't you worry about
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Speaker 1: my hands, baby When I get them on you, I'll... Well,
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Speaker 1: you'll know they're all right Gosh, sweetheart, I can hardly
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Speaker 1: wait to see you I.
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Speaker 4: Say it, Al. Just make believe I'm a typewriter. Don't
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Speaker 4: be embarrassed. I... I can hardly wait to kiss you
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Speaker 4: for the first time, honey.
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Speaker 1: I never told you what I feel like when you're
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Speaker 1: in my arms, looking up at me with your eyes like...
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Speaker 1: with that kind of funny, wonderful light in your eyes
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Speaker 1: like you did on that railroad platform when I went away.
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Speaker 4: Say it, Al.
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Speaker 1: Lots of love, your brown-eyed devil. She used to call
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Speaker 1: me that once. It's a kind of joke between us, see?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Bondi, look at this picture. Ain't that a nice face, though,
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Speaker 1: ain't it? Here, come here. Take a look.
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Speaker 4: No, Smitty, I just looked at it a little bit ago.
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Speaker 1: Oh, don't rib me. I only showed it to you once.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a very nice face, Al. A guy could
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Speaker 4: lean on a girl like that.
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Speaker 1: Oh, Maureen, don't lean on anybody. If there's any leaning
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Speaker 1: to be done, the female sex the weaker, ain't it?
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Speaker 4: Well, most people lean a little on somebody. Nobody stands alone.
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Speaker 1: Well, you just let me have that operation, Blondie. I'll
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Speaker 1: stand alone. You just watch me.
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Speaker 2: Thanks, nurse. Well, I guess we're ready for you now, Smitty.
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Speaker 1: Not too soon for me, Doc. I'm busting at the seams.
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Speaker 1: It's been the longest three weeks of my life.
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Speaker 2: Now, look, Smitty. Don't expect to see the minute the
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Speaker 2: bandage is off, huh? I've Doc in the room, so
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Speaker 2: it's not.
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Speaker 1: Okay. You told me that, Doc. Just get it off,
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Speaker 1: will you?
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Speaker 2: Now, I'm not making any promises either. The healing process is.
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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, but let's try it. Please.
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Speaker 2: Bandage is off now. Now... No.
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Speaker 6: No!
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Speaker 1: Not a darn thing. But I didn't expect to see
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Speaker 1: with the blinds down. You said it was dark in here.
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Speaker 1: How about the flashlight? You promised me.
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Speaker 2: I will, I will. Now take it easy.
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Speaker 1: Turn it on, Doc. Even if it's only a two-bit flashlight,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to see stars and angels and Ruth. Come on, Doc.
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Speaker 1: Let me see the light. Bring it closer.
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Speaker 2: See anything?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Like a locomotive headlight way off in the fog.
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Speaker 1: Bring it closer. Closer, Doc.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Al. The light was full on your face. Close. Close.
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Speaker 1: Doc, I can't be blind. Not for my whole life.
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Speaker 2: Look, Al, I.
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Speaker 1: Doc, please. All you medicine fellows, you're smart, you're educated.
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Speaker 1: You've got ways of fixing guys up. I did my best.
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Speaker 1: I fought. I'm not asking for so much.
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Speaker 2: Al, this examination isn't final. I told you yesterday it
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Speaker 2: wouldn't be.
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Speaker 1: When can we try again? Tomorrow, next week?
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Speaker 2: Well, you're still suffering from the effects of eye concussion.
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Speaker 2: There are still pieces of shrapnel that have to work
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Speaker 2: themselves out. And you'll probably have to have another operation
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Speaker 2: after a while.
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Speaker 1: When? When?
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Speaker 2: Well, we'll have to wait six months, a year. Even then,
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Speaker 2: there's no assurance you'll see.
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Speaker 1: Six months?
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Speaker 2: Well, what are my chances? Give it to me straight. I, uh...
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Speaker 2: I have a book here I want you to take
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Speaker 2: with you. And we have people right here who'll teach
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Speaker 2: you to.
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Speaker 1: No!
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Speaker 2: No!
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Speaker 1: It's one of them books for the blind. I don't
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Speaker 1: want any of that stuff. I want to stay on
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Speaker 1: my own.
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Speaker 5: I don't want any of that stuff.
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Speaker 2: Al. Al, right now I'm thinking of someone. A doctor
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Speaker 2: friend of mine. We went to school together. He was
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Speaker 2: blind from the time he was 10 years old. That
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Speaker 2: didn't stop him. He's married, got two kids. He's a
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Speaker 2: fine psychiatrist and a happy man. Are you listening to me, Al?
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying it'll be easy for you. One of
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Speaker 2: these first months aren't the toughest. But people get the
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Speaker 2: wrong idea about blindness. A blind man is not helpless.
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Speaker 2: He just has to do things in a little different
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Speaker 2: way from the rest of us. Are you listening to me, Al?
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Speaker 1: Before continuing with the second part of Pride of the Marines,
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Speaker 1: we want to thank Warner Brothers for making this story available.
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Speaker 1: We also wish to congratulate Warner Brothers Studio, which on
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Speaker 1: August 6th will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Sound Pictures.
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Speaker 1: Now for part two of Academy Awards, starring John Garfield
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Speaker 1: as Al Schmidt. in Pride of the Marines with Rosemary
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Speaker 1: DeCamp as Virginia. Nurse, come in. I want to get
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Speaker 1: this over with quick. Listen, Al. You got your pencil? Yes.
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Speaker 1: Dear Ruth.
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Speaker 4: What harm will it do to think it over for
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Speaker 4: another week?
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Speaker 1: What good will it do? I made up my mind
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Speaker 1: last night.
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Speaker 4: Your mind's made up. Well, how about giving Ruth a
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Speaker 4: chance to decide for herself?
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Speaker 1: To decide what? How to ruin her life? Look, she's
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Speaker 1: worked hard all her life. Me, the big shot. I
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Speaker 1: was going to give her all the things she never had.
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Speaker 1: She wasn't going to have to work anymore. What can
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Speaker 1: I give her now? But, Al... I won't have her
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Speaker 1: being a seeing-eye dog for me.
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Speaker 4: Oh, how do you know she'll feel that way about it?
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Speaker 4: At least tell her the truth, Al. Find out what
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Speaker 4: she wants. She's not going to stop loving you, writing
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Speaker 4: to you.
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Speaker 1: Then send her letters back. Suppose I do give her
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Speaker 1: a few bad days. She's pretty. She'll meet another guy.
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Speaker 1: She'll fall in love. You gonna write the letter for me,
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Speaker 1: or do I have to ask Lee Diamond?
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Speaker 4: I'll write it. Go ahead.
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Speaker 1: Dear Ruth, I guess this letter's gonna be a kind
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Speaker 1: of surprise, but I might as well give it to
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Speaker 1: you straight. I'm not coming back to Philly. Not now,
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Speaker 1: not ever. And as for getting married, I've decided, well,
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Speaker 1: it just ain't up my alley. I, uh, I hope
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Speaker 1: you'll be happy, and I hope you get.
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Speaker 2: Yourself another boyfriend real soon. Yours, Al Schmidt.
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Speaker 4: Al, here you are. There's a long-distance call for you, Al. Here,
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Speaker 4: I'll take you.
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Speaker 1: From where?
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Speaker 4: It's from Ruth, from Philadelphia.
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Speaker 2: I ain't here.
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Speaker 5: She must have received your letter.
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Speaker 4: Why don't you.
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Speaker 1: Don't you understand? I can't talk to her. Tell her
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Speaker 1: to leave me alone.
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Speaker 5: All right, Al.
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Speaker 4: Hello. May I accept the call, please? This is Virginia
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Speaker 4: Pfeiffer of the Red Cross.
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Speaker 5: Just a minute, please.
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Speaker 1: Hello?
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Speaker 3: Hello?
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Speaker 4: A friend of Private Schmidt's asks if she can accept
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Speaker 4: the call. Miss Virginia Pfeiffer of the Red Cross. Oh, yes.
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Speaker 5: She's been writing. Go ahead, San Diego.
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Speaker 4: Is this Ruth? Yes, Miss Pfeiffer.
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Speaker 5: I got Al's last letter.
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Speaker 4: He's not breaking off with you because he doesn't love you, Ruth.
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Speaker 4: Believe me, he does.
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Speaker 6: Then why?
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Speaker 4: Get set for a very bad shock, Ruth.
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Speaker 5: What is it?
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Speaker 4: Al has completely lost the sight of one eye... and
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Speaker 4: may never regain sight in the other. That's why he
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Speaker 4: broke with you. He's afraid of becoming a burden. Do
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Speaker 4: you understand now?
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Speaker 3: Hello?
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Speaker 6: Ruth?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 4: There's one thing I'd better find out, Ruth, and you
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Speaker 4: can think it over if you want to. It'll make
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Speaker 4: a difference in helping Al. Do you still love him?
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Speaker 4: Do you want him? I mean, as a husband.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yes. Yes, I do.
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Speaker 4: Remember, he may be totally blind for the rest of
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Speaker 4: his life.
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Speaker 5: What does that matter?
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Speaker 4: You don't want to think it over?
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Speaker 5: Think what over? I didn't fall in love with his eyes,
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Speaker 5: not the color of his hair.
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Speaker 4: I fell in love with him, with a man.
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Speaker 1: With Al.
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Speaker 6: That hasn't changed because something has happened.
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Speaker 4: To his eyes.
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Speaker 7: ¶ ¶.
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Speaker 2: Captain Burroughs says to go in, Smitty.
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Speaker 1: Ah, good morning, Schmidt.
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Speaker 2: Morning, Miss Pfeiffer. Morning, sir.
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Speaker 4: Morning, sir.
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Speaker 5: Hi, Al.
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Speaker 1: Oh, sounds like Lee.
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Speaker 2: That's it.
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Speaker 8: Sit down, everybody. Schmidt, I've got great news for you.
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Speaker 8: You're getting the Navy Cross.
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Speaker 2: Congratulations.
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Speaker 4: Al, it's wonderful.
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Speaker 1: Say, that is something.
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Speaker 8: And Corporal Diamond's getting one, too, although the ceremonies won't
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Speaker 8: be held at the same place.
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Speaker 1: That's great, Lee. Give me a wallop.
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Speaker 8: The Navy has decided that you'll get your award at
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Speaker 8: the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Corporal Diamond's going to go on furlough, too,
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Speaker 8: and he'll be on the train with you. And you'll
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Speaker 8: leave tomorrow and be home in time for Christmas. I, uh.
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Speaker 2: I gotta go back there.
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Speaker 1: Sorry, Schmidt. You're under orders. You're going back.
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Speaker 2: Tomorrow?
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Speaker 1: Tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Goodbye.
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Speaker 1: And good luck.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.
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Speaker 3: Where are we, Lee?
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Speaker 1: Still crossing Ohio, I guess, Al. Lee, I've been thinking
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Speaker 1: it over. I don't want to see Ruth. We're finished.
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Speaker 1: There's no point in having her wake over the corpse.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to see her at all, Lee. You
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Speaker 1: send a telegram for me. Tell Ruth not to come
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Speaker 1: to the station. Look, Smitty, that's not fair. She probably
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Speaker 1: planned a Christmas celebration. You're going to see her. Lee,
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Speaker 1: you send that wire.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 2: I'll send it.
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Speaker 1: First, I got something on my chest. Al, back there
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Speaker 1: in the canal, I thought something about you.
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Speaker 2: I never told you.
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Speaker 1: It was after you got that grenade in your face.
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Speaker 1: Toward morning it was when we thought them Japs were
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Speaker 1: coming in on us. Remember what you did, Al? You
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Speaker 1: pulled your. 45 and I thought you meant to kill yourself.
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Speaker 1: You kept yelling, tell me when they come in, Lee.
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Speaker 1: I can't see, but you tell me where they are
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Speaker 1: and I'll shoot them. Al, I was scared to death then,
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Speaker 1: laying on the ground, waiting for a Jap bayonet. But
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Speaker 1: I couldn't help thinking something. I thought that kid Smitty
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Speaker 1: has more guts than any man alive. But I was wrong, Al.
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Speaker 1: I think you're only hopped up by excitement like you're
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Speaker 1: taking a shot or something. I don't think you've got guts, Al.
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Speaker 1: I think you're kind of yellow. You haven't got the
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Speaker 1: guts to see Ruth. Shut up. Shut up. You're a
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Speaker 1: stinking liar. You're talking because you know I can't crack
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Speaker 1: you in your lying face. Okay, okay. Just ask yourself
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Speaker 1: a question. Would you do it over again if you
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Speaker 1: knew you were going to be blind, Al? Would you
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Speaker 1: join up? Would you ask for combat instead of shore duty?
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Speaker 1: Would you do it over again?
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Speaker 2: Al.
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Speaker 1: Listen to me. Sure, you're in a tough spot, but
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Speaker 1: it's not peaches and cream for everybody else. What problems
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Speaker 1: have you got? You're in one piece, ain't you? Your
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Speaker 1: wife don't have to turn over on her insides when
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Speaker 1: she sees you. When you go for a job, there
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Speaker 1: ain't nobody gonna say, we got no use for ex-heroes
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Speaker 1: like you. That's what you think. Sure, there'll be some
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Speaker 1: guys who won't hire you even when they know you
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Speaker 1: can handle a job, but... Well, there's some who won't
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Speaker 1: hire me because my name is Diamond instead of Jones.
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Speaker 1: Because I celebrate Passover instead of Easter. Al, don't you
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Speaker 1: see what I'm talking about? You and me, we need
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Speaker 1: the same kind of a world. We need a country
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Speaker 1: to live in where nobody gets booted around for any reason.
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Speaker 1: I'm all mixed up. Mixed up and scared. Dragging up
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Speaker 1: the heels and yelling.
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Speaker 2: No, Al, no.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't telling the truth before. You're not yelling. You're
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Speaker 1: a swell guy, a wonderful guy. You're You're a pure
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Speaker 1: sort of guy if ever I saw one. But, Al,
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Speaker 1: don't leave all your guts behind on Guadalcanal. Okay, Lee,
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Speaker 1: but now we send that wire. Al, didn't what I
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Speaker 1: say mean anything to you? Yeah, but I'll still send
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Speaker 1: that wire.
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Speaker 7: You're Ruth.
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Speaker 1: I know you from our snapshot. I'm Lee Diamond. Didn't
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Speaker 1: you get his telegram? Yes, I did.
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Speaker 5: But I decided to come down to the station anyway.
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Speaker 4: Oh, Lee, help me.
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Speaker 6: I've got to get him back where he lived amongst
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Speaker 6: his friends. He's got to know.
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Speaker 1: He's pretty set on not going.
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Speaker 5: Where are you taking him now?
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Speaker 1: The Navy hospital.
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Speaker 5: He's got to come home first, even for just an hour.
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Speaker 1: He won't go with you. He won't.
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Speaker 5: I have Al's car here.
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Speaker 6: Couldn't you tell him that the Navy car may be...
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Speaker 6: I'll take him to the house, and then tonight I'll
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Speaker 6: drive him to the hospital.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, Ruth.
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Speaker 5: I want one chance, Lee. Won't you give it to me, please?
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Speaker 5: It's this whole life I'm fighting for.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and yours, I know. Okay, I'll see how good
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Speaker 1: a liar I am, Ruth. Hang on.
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Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 1: Boy, sounds like Philly all right. Good old Philly. Say, Lieutenant,
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Speaker 1: where are we? I can't see so good yet. Can't
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Speaker 1: you hear me, Lieutenant?
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Speaker 5: I've ordered against talking while driving. Okay, okay.
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Speaker 1: You don't mind if I talk to you, though, do you?
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of hopped up about coming home. I've got
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Speaker 1: to talk to somebody. Okay. I, uh.
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Speaker 1: I guess that must be your perfume I'm smelling now.
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Speaker 1: It's nice. If you don't mind my saying so, it's
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Speaker 1: the first time a lieutenant smelled nice to me. Kind of...
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Speaker 1: Kind of reminds me of a perfume I once gave to... Say,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm bugs. Everything reminds me of something today. Well,
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Speaker 1: you take this car. I know there was something bothering you, buddy.
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Speaker 1: You hear that little motor knock when you give it
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Speaker 1: a gas? I had a jalopy once that did exactly
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Speaker 1: the same thing. I got a little eye trouble, look.
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Speaker 1: That's why I come here. To get it fixed up. Say,
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Speaker 1: are we here at the hospital?
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Would you take this out for me, Lieutenant? It's not heavy.
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Speaker 5: Yes, this way.
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Speaker 1: Thanks. I'll take the bag now. You just lead the way.
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Speaker 5: Some steps now.
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Speaker 1: Wooden steps. Say, this hospital must be an old dump.
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Speaker 1: That's all. Was something holding us up, Lieutenant? Al. Ruth. I...
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Speaker 1: I thought there was something familiar.
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Speaker 5: Al, I had to do this.
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Speaker 1: What's the use? It's no good.
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Speaker 5: Al, it's Christmas Eve. Come on, Al. You've got to
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Speaker 5: come in. You're home.
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Speaker 2: You're home.
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Speaker 4: Al, where are you going?
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Speaker 1: Stop following me around. I'm blind, Ruth. I'm helpless. I'd
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Speaker 1: be a drag on you all your life.
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Speaker 5: Why don't you let me decide that?
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Speaker 1: Because I'm nobody's lapdog. That's why I got too much pride.
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Speaker 5: Pride? You don't have any pride. You want to feel
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Speaker 5: sorry for yourself. You want to feel lonely. You haven't
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Speaker 5: got the pride to accept being blind like a man.
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Speaker 1: I'm going right now. You get in that car and drive.
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Speaker 1: I won't do it.
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Speaker 5: You're going to stay right here and you're going to
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Speaker 5: listen to me. I won't drive you.
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Speaker 1: That's fine. That ties it all up. I could beat
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Speaker 1: your ears off for saying that. But there's one card
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Speaker 1: you missed. I may be blind, but I know where
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Speaker 1: the phone is in this house. I'm calling a cab.
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Speaker 4: You wait a minute here.
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Speaker 5: Oh, Al, don't you understand?
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Speaker 6: If you go out of this room now, you'll leave
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Speaker 6: me to die. Stumble all through my life. What is
26:48
Speaker 6: there to pity about a brave man? Suppose there never
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Speaker 6: was a war, darling. What if we were married and
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Speaker 6: one day I got hit by an automobile and was
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Speaker 6: left to cripple?
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Speaker 5: Would you walk out on me? You know you wouldn't.
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Speaker 6: Oh, darling, my heart has been falling over things all
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Speaker 6: year because you've been gone.
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Speaker 1: I need you, Elle.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 9: Sure, you'll need me, too, but what's wrong with that?
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Speaker 9: Why shouldn't two people need each other? I don't know
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Speaker 9: what I'll do if you leave me. I need you
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Speaker 9: too much.
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Speaker 1: Ruthie, Ruthie, don't. I don't want to make you cry.
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Speaker 4: I need you, Al.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to make you cry. It's just that, well,
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Speaker 2: I was.
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Speaker 1: Only an ordinary guy before, and I wasn't worth you then,
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Speaker 1: and Now I'm less than an ordinary guy. I can't see.
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Speaker 5: Less than ordinary?
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Speaker 1: You?
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Speaker 6: Oh, sweetheart, don't you realize that every single man who's
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Speaker 6: fought is no longer ordinary? Don't you realize that millions
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Speaker 6: and millions of people were looking to Guadalcanal every day.
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Speaker 5: While you were fighting there?
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Speaker 6: They were.
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Speaker 4: Millions of them.
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Speaker 5: Every civilized person in the world.
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Speaker 6: And it wasn't any ordinary guy who kept the Jets
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Speaker 6: back that night.
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Speaker 5: It was one of the most extraordinary guys in the world. You,
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Speaker 5: Al Schmidt.
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Speaker 1: Marine.
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Speaker 5: Al. Al, where are you going? I, um.
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Speaker 1: I guess I'd better unpack that kit, Ruthie. Oh, Al.
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Speaker 9: Oh, Al.
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Speaker 1: Well, looks... Looks like I'm home for keeps, baby.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Today, in Army and Navy hospitals throughout our land, thousands
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Speaker 1: of men are being helped toward the happy endings they
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Speaker 1: so rightly deserve. Doctors, nurses, and the full resources of
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Speaker 1: medical science are working tirelessly to give the sick and
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Speaker 1: wounded their chance to live full, useful lives. Many of
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Speaker 1: the medical miracles that are being performed upon these men
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Speaker 1: are possible only with the aid of the remarkably effective
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Speaker 1: new drugs, such as penicillin and the various sulfur compounds
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Speaker 1: made available in the past few years. In the development
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Speaker 1: of these new drugs, in their constant refinement, their wider distribution,
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Speaker 1: as there is suffering, the House of Squibb is dedicated
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Speaker 1: of the Marines was written for radio by Frank Wilson
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Speaker 1: with an original musical score composed and conducted by Lee Stevens.
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Speaker 1: Our producer-director is Dee Engelbach. John Garfield, whose performance you
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Speaker 1: enjoyed today as Al Schmidt, is soon to be seen
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Speaker 1: in Warner Brothers' new production, Humoresse. Rosemary DeCamp, who played Virginia,
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