00:00This is a production of the U.S. Department of State.
00:31Sonata recording, take three.
00:48If you are but a dream
00:54I hope I never wake in
01:01It's more than I could bear
01:06To find that I'm forsaken
01:13If you're a fantasy
01:19Then I'm content to be
01:25In love with lovely you
01:30And pray my dream comes true
01:36I long to kiss you
01:42But I would not dare
01:46I'm so afraid
01:51That you may vanish in the air
01:58So darling, if our romance should break
02:07I hope I never wake up
02:14If you are but a dream
02:27I hope I never wake up
02:36That was a good one, Frank.
02:38Just give me five minutes and I'll have the other number ready.
02:40I'll get a smoke.
02:41Next number, boys.
02:52Somebody in for a licking?
02:53You bet.
02:54Bring a smearer.
02:55Yeah, but ten against one, that's not very fair.
02:58Ah, come on.
03:00What's it all about?
03:01None of your business.
03:03Scared to tell me?
03:04No, I'm not as scared.
03:06I'll fight you even.
03:08Not if I can help it.
03:09I just want to know why the gang war.
03:10We don't like him.
03:11We don't want him in our neighborhood or going to our school.
03:14I've been living here as long as you.
03:17What's he got, smallpox or something?
03:19We don't like his religion.
03:21His religion?
03:22Look, mister, he's a dirty...
03:23Ah, hold on.
03:25I see what you mean.
03:27You must be a bunch of those Nazi werewolves I've been reading about.
03:30Mister, are you screwy?
03:32Not me, I'm an American.
03:33Well, what do you think we are?
03:36Nazis?
03:37Don't call me a Nazi.
03:38My father's a sergeant in the army.
03:40He's been wounded even.
03:42Wounded, huh?
03:43Say, I bet he got some of that blood plasma.
03:45He was wounded so bad he had to get it three times.
03:48Son, anybody in your family ever go to the blood bank?
03:50Sure, my mother and my father both.
03:52Uh-huh.
03:54You know what?
03:55I bet you maybe his pop's blood helped save your dad's life.
03:59That's bad.
04:00What's bad about it?
04:01Well, don't you see?
04:02Your father doesn't go to the same church as his father does.
04:06That's awful.
04:08Do you think maybe if your father knew about it in time,
04:10he would rather have died than to take blood from a man of another religion?
04:14Would you have wanted him to die?
04:16Would your mom want him to die?
04:17No!
04:19Look, fellas.
04:20Religion makes no difference.
04:22Except maybe to a Nazi or somebody as stupid.
04:26Why, people all over the world worship God in many different ways.
04:31God created everybody.
04:33He didn't create one people better than another.
04:36Your blood's the same as mine.
04:37Mine's the same as his.
04:40Do you know what this wonderful country is made up?
04:43It's made up of a hundred million people.
04:45It's made up of a hundred different kind of people.
04:49And a hundred different ways of talking.
04:51And a hundred different ways of going to church.
04:54But they're all American ways.
04:56Wouldn't we be silly if we went around hating people
04:58because they combed their hair different than ours?
05:01Wouldn't we be a lot of dopes?
05:03My dad came from Italy.
05:05But I'm an American.
05:07But should I hate your father because he came from Ireland or France or Russia?
05:11Wouldn't I be a first-class fathead?
05:13You guys remember Pearl Harbor?
05:15Why, the Japs socked us so it looked like we could never do anything about it.
05:20But a couple of days later, something very important happened.
05:23Close your eyes and let me tell you about it.
05:26Go on, go on, close your eyes, all of you.
05:27I want you to imagine it.
05:29There was a Jap battleship, the Haruna.
05:33And one of our planes spotted it.
05:35Do you know what it takes to bomb a battleship?
05:38It takes guts and know-how and teamwork.
05:41And our boys sure needed plenty of it
05:42because that Jap was thrown up enough flat to get out and walk home on.
05:46But the pilot had only one thing on his mind,
05:49to get over that ship.
05:51And he did.
05:53And then the bombardier pushed a button and a 500-pound tomato
05:56smacked that Jap right in the middle.
06:00Yep, they sank it.
06:03And every American threw his head back and felt much better.
06:07The pilot of that ship was named Colin Kelly,
06:10an American and a Presbyterian.
06:12And you know who dropped the bombs?
06:14Meyer Levin, an American and a Jew.
06:17You think maybe they should have called the bombing off
06:20because they had different religions?
06:22Think about that, fellas.
06:24Use your good American heads.
06:27Don't let anybody make suckers out of you.
06:29Well, I gotta go to work.
06:31What do you work?
06:33I sing.
06:34Aw, you're a kid.
06:38Come here.
06:40They all stand here.
06:42And no hissing allowed.
06:45What is America to me?
06:50A name, a map, or a flag I see.
06:56A certain word, democracy.
07:04What is America to me?
07:10A house I live in, a plot of earth, a street.
07:20A grocer and a butcher and the people that I meet.
07:27The children in the playground, the faces that I see.
07:34All races and religions, that's America to me.
07:46The place I work in, the worker at my side.
07:54The little town or city where my people lived and died.
08:01The howdy and the handshake, the air of feeling free.
08:09And the right to speak my mind out, that's America to me.
08:18The things I see about me, the big things and the small.
08:24The little corner newsstand and the house a mile tall.
08:31The wedding and the churchyard, the laughter and the tears.
08:38The dream that's been a growing for a hundred and fifty years.
08:47The town I live in, the street, the house, the room.
08:56The pavement of the city, or a garden all in bloom.
09:04The church, the school, the clubhouse.
09:08The church, the school, the clubhouse.
09:13The million lights I see, but especially the people.
09:24That's America to me.
09:43So long, men.
09:44Bye.
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