 Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the original stories by Rose Franken brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself Have a coke and now Claudia Hey, David. Is it Sunday? No, that's Tuesday. That's what I thought Say David I've been thinking How much longer is our lease here? Two months then we'll have to move brilliant and where are we moving to I have no idea That's just it we move in two months and we have no place to move to my heart bleeds for me Well, aren't you concerned at all? Well, certainly I am but it's not the most important thing in the world by a long shot Well, it is to me and I'm gonna find an apartment today And where is this apartment you're planning to find today not far from here mama called last night After you were in bed with your cold She said she heard about a house that was just started to be reconverted be ready in about two months What do you think of that? I think that's pretty wonderful. You don't look as if you thought it you look as though You had something else on your mind Not a thing not a thing on my mind, but you say I've got a hurry. I want to leave with you So I can be the first person there. Oh There'll be a traffic jam in the bathroom No, there won't I'll go put on the coffee while you brush your teeth Then I can brush my teeth while you get dressed good good and say David Do you mind if I squeeze a can today? It'll be faster than orange. No, I don't mind Just so you take out all the pits out of the label. I'll use the strainer. Oh and David Be sure you wear a warm suit and please be careful today. I won't sit down in puddles. I won't wade through drafts I won't get warm. I won't get cold. How's that? It sounds pretty good. Say David Listen if we were to get this apartment it'd be the sort of thing that doesn't happen to people But it's got to happen to somebody somebody's what happened to us. Don't you think? David you haven't been listening to a word. I said mm-hmm. What's that? Oh Sure, sure. I didn't miss a thing. What'd I say? well You didn't listen No, darling. I I didn't My mind wandered off darling. What were you thinking? Nothing? Nothing special. Is anything wrong? Why should anything be wrong? I don't know Ever since we got up this morning. You seem to be thinking there's something else You only listen to half of what I said Well, I catch the other half the second time around and you aren't excited about the apartment the way I thought you'd be I'll get excited when and if we get it Oh, I'd rather be excited now because then if we don't get it I'll have had all the fun beforehand anyway That's one way of looking at it. Well, I am ready for breakfast. I don't know. You still don't look right to me What's the matter now my tie crooked? No, it's your face crooked No, just different not like you You're sure your cold's all right. My cold is doing fine. Hey, let me feel your forehead get away from my forehead I was only gonna feel I thought I was gonna have to wasn't going to have to wait for you You won't have to I'll tie my shoes with my toes. That'll be attractive the coffee should be ready by now Oh David, please smile. I haven't seen you smile all morning. How's this? Not very good. You look like a pumpkin. Don't you like pumpkins? I like pumpkins. All right, but I like you better I like you to be happy especially in the mornings Then give me my coffee and my toast and your boots and your salad Oh Please can you tell me who I ask about an apartment in this house? Lady, we've only just begun. There ain't no apartments here, but there will be won't there. Sure. There will be in time We just started on the job. Well, how big are the apartments going to be two rooms three rooms and four rooms Can you tell me how much the rent is look lady? I'm just the bill. I make apartments I don't rent them. Well, isn't there anybody here? I can talk to about it. Sure. She's right here now call her for you Thank you. Thank you very much. Hey super guess what? Somebody wants to see you about an apartment Say you sound as though there've been a lot of people ahead of me already. You didn't think you'd be the first, did you? well Yes, lady I'm waiting to see the superintendent. Uh, I will help you I am the superintendent. Oh, I thought you'd be a man I live here. I used to be the cook now. They are making over the house and I am watching over And you live here with all this noise going on? It is quiet at night. Oh You know, I never realized that a house could have so much Undone and still stand up. They are only just beginning Uh, you have come about an apartment, huh? There's a lot of people before me, I guess Yes, but it is foolish. This house is not finished maybe for six months Well, I know but I thought I could make a reservation for one Could you tell me about them two rooms three rooms four rooms? Uh more I cannot tell but I it will give you address of the man who sells them who sells them You mean you're ransom. Oh, no, they sell these apartments cooperative You buy them and you own them. Oh, it's that kind of a house Or you you don't want to buy apartment. No, I If if I was going to buy something I'd buy a house We only want a rent. I am sorry. That you will not find here. I thought it was too good to be true You look some more you will find I've been looking. You know, it's not so easy. No No, nothing is so easy these days. I'm afraid not Well, anyway, we don't have to really worry for two months. Oh, that's good Look at all those soldiers. There must be a parade. Oh, look They're so young And they wear uniforms to march in a parade for a war they hardly know about You mean the first war? Yes Our mr. Stay is for the first war So they will march Most of them look too young to fight even the last war But not too young to be in the army now Men march to the first war then to another war Now men march to remember Most of these boys are too young to have anything to remember I'm afraid I am too As your husband in the war. Oh, I wasn't married to him during the war I was lucky, wasn't I? It was all over when we met you were lucky. Yes, and I wasn't around for the first war Seems like I just got under the rope both times I got into the rope like you say both times My husband my son Twice wars Twice my men they go How awful I suppose it's something you you never get used to Saying goodbye Never Now I I try to get used to being lonesome All the time Lonesome you shouldn't be lonesome now Unless Oh, no That couldn't have happened. Yes, it happened Forced my husband Then 30 years later my boy in the pacific the Solomon island It is a place. I never even heard of before And every year Is our mr. Stay For all the wives who are not wives All the mothers who are not mothers All the sweet hearts who have no sweet hearts I think I'd have died if that had happened to me. No, you would not One lives One is left behind to live Someone must live who cannot forget Who remembers not only an army's to stay but And all the long days of the year And if there are enough people who Who can't forget Who remember that way And we won't have any more wars. You are young to say that You have a young hope And now I pray that you keep your husband and you keep your son Makes me feel as if I didn't have any right to them. Oh, you have the right and you must keep the right You must say to yourself See all these young men I want them to be very old men To live And to live together side by side If this comes to be You will never have my loneliness and my sickness In your heart When do we move? Isn't anyone here? Hey, when do we move? Oh, David, I'm so glad you're home. Oh, hello. We're not moving. They were selling apartments not renting them. Disappointed? No, it's not important. Since when? Since today Darling, how's your cold? Much better Oh, David, take care of yourself Don't let anything happen to your promise Hey, hey, what are you so solemn about? David, why didn't you tell me this morning it was armistice day? Oh How could you let me go around not knowing It isn't something that somebody could tell you about darling besides You had so many other things on your mind. I don't see how I could have forgotten Except I didn't have a chance to look at the papers and there was the apartment And I'd forgotten about the bells ringing Look darling, nobody's scolding you. I'm scolding myself. No reason to you knew this morning That was the look on your face And that that's why you weren't more excited about things And I going on as if nothing had happened Well, nothing has happened darling. That's just the point Nothing has happened to me. So Armistice day has just been something left over from the last war. Look, I Didn't expect you to feel anything about it or I would have said something You weren't born in the first war and you were just 12 when this one started So but you were old enough and you remembered this morning. See here darling You can't kick yourself because you just happened to be born a little too late, but if I wasn't Just think how one morning Just like this morning You'd have gotten out of bed Say goodbye I'm gone away someplace. I'd never even heard of before And then maybe not I can't even say it, David Don't say it darling You don't have to Yes, I do I do When others did and gave and Lived through so much. I I didn't even know exactly where some of the places we fought out were You learned a great deal today claudia. I grew up a little today, david That's more than many people do in a lifetime. You know for a while it made me Feel as if I'd lost you I won't forget that Made me a part of everything that's past Here darling Read this A few lines Written by a great man And you'll see just how much you have learned It can be Our moment of silence Here Here's the place You'll read it to me darling All right Listen No man is an island Entire of itself Every man Is a piece of the continent A part of the mainland If a claud be washed away by the sea The continent Is the less Any man's death diminishes me Because I am involved in mankind And therefore Never seek to know For whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee This transcribed program of claudia was brought to you by your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola And who thanks you for the privilege of joining your observance Of this armistice day