 Family Theatre presents Jimmy Duranty and Barry Sullivan from Hollywood the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theatre Presents the Cadrimon starring Barry Sullivan and now here's your host Jimmy Duranty Thank You Tony Lafranco Family Theatre's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives If we ought to win peace for ourselves peace for our families and peace for the world Family Theatre oyes you to pray pray together as a family And now to our transcribed drummer the cadrimon starring Barry Sullivan as Bill All right you people Give me your attention. I Got something important to tell you. I want you to hear it Ain't up here for my health, you know Now first of all wait a minute bill wait a minute. You're not in front of the troops now You've got to go about this thing differently People don't like being told what to do Yeah, but you know what I got to say is one of the most important things in the world But they don't have to listen they can tune out They can tune out at least people don't know anything about you bill You can't just start talking as if you were the president and expect them to believe everything you say They've got to know you're qualified to advise them I died for them. Don't that prove I know what I'm about afraid not bill a lot of men died because they Didn't know what they were about All right, you tell them then you tell them I'm not up here for my health that I'm up here for theirs That I know what I'm talking about. All right, Bill. I'll bring in some people and we'll give them the true picture Then after they know you they can listen if they want I've known sergeant first-class bill Palacek for a long time and I've always liked him But I'll vouch for him later. I'd rather you heard first from a man who was his enemy I Guess you could say I was his enemy Of course a sergeant's worst enemy was the enemy, but I guess I ran the communists a good close second for a long time My name is Harold door and I was just starting my army basic training when I met Sergeant Palacek He was the field first sergeant of my training company And I hadn't known him for a day before I thought he was about the worst human being I'd ever met It started on the morning in that first day in and it was a kind of an impersonal anger at first Then it was his general attitude that made me man There were about 300 of us standing in that first formation in the company street It was cold and it was dark first our platoon sergeants called roll and Then sergeant Palacek took his turn My name is sergeant first-class Palacek In a little bit. I'm gonna be falling you out so the company commander can talk to you right now my turn First of all stay away from that orderly room Those people in there trying to line up your paperwork. You want to see somebody in there see me first There's something else you people ought to know As of right now, there ain't no one of you people worth the clothes you're standing in You're not civilians anymore But you ain't soldiers yet All right when I get through with you, you'll amount to something The next 16 weeks are gonna be your basic training. They're gonna be rough. I Know because I'm gonna see to it At the end of 16 weeks, I'm gonna be standing here looking at 300 men who've been tireder than they ever thought they could get You're gonna be going to classes until you're blue in the face Clean in your rifle till they think it's part of your arm and Drill until I've worn you down clear up to the neck And you know why? Because the better soji are the longer you stay alive. That's why I'm in business I'm not up here for my health. I'm up here for yours You're gonna learn how to be good soldiers and you're gonna die of old age every single one of you If any man of you after basic training goes out and gets himself killed in a shooting war That man is gonna have to answer to me It was later in the day when I put my dislike for the sergeant on a personal basis The rest of my platoon was having a GI party the process of scrubbing a barracks building Inside and out till it's so clean you almost can't stand it I'd gone up to the orderly room see if I hadn't a male on the way back I ran into sergeant Paula check Hey, you know me I'm talking to you and I come here Didn't I tell you to stay away that orderly room I had to see about my male you what I had to see about my male sir That's better, but it still ain't right Those people in there they got work to do And another thing why aren't you helping on your barracks you letting somebody else do your work I was only going to be gone for a minute. It ain't your minutes That's your name trooper door Harold or what Harold or sir Can't see any reason for calling a son. You got something to say say it out loud. I said I can't see any reason for calling a sergeant sir Sir, oh you can huh? No, and that's because you're not half as bright as you think you are You don't like the army. Do your trooper? No, man. You're in it and what's more you're on my list, um, I Guess your buddies have done enough of your work We're gonna talk about this some more, but right now you get back to your barracks. Yes, sir On the double the sergeant caught me a couple of times after that Like a lot of the others I got caught with my hands in my pockets had to do some exercises Yes, push-ups in the company street Once he got me for a couple of pockets being unbutton He cut the buttons off with his pen knife and let me spend the rest of the evening sewing him back on And then came the time when I was standing in line for chow outside the mess hall How'd you do today door? Oh, I qualify, but I don't think I fired expert How'd you do? Who about the same? You know when they put that target 300 yards away it gets pretty hard to hit I'll check hit it this sergeant. Oh, yeah But he already qualified once didn't all the cadrim and have to re-qualify every so often How'd he do him? Oh, oh Expert rifle But all he's good for firing a rifle. Oh, I think he's all right Oh, he's a vulgar in a big mouth to ape with no education at all. He hasn't got enough sense to come in out of the rain Big sergeant Paula check fired expert So what in every other way he's a bum a wasted effort couldn't even make a living in civilian life. Hello, door Didn't know I was around did you do it? Well speak up. No, sir. I didn't you got anything more to say to these people. No, you sure I'm sure No, come on door You and me are going to the CEO's office. Have a little chat The company clerk was the only one in the orderly room Sergeant sent him out to lunch Then we went into the company commander's office He sat down behind the big desk and Emotioned me to a chair in front of it Sit down You still feel the same way about being in the army Yes, sir. Ah, you can climb off your high horse. I'm gonna eat you Cigarette. Oh, no, thank you. No, there's something we got to get straight First of all if I had my way there wouldn't be any armies in the world But outside of this training company. I don't get my own way a whole lot. I spent my share of time in Korea Staring at the Sun in the summer and rubbing snow on my face in the wintertime just to keep awake There were times I would have taken two years KP just to come back to the States. I got no use for wars The world didn't have them there wouldn't be any armies. That'd be just the way I'd like it but And I want you to get this straight door as long as other countries have armies this country better have one And if we're gonna have an army then trooper It's gonna be the best Cuz the best one wins and the best soldiers come back That is they usually come back See what I mean, I think so, sir. I Guess if I have to be in an army, this is the best one to be in and maybe you don't like being pushed around most people don't And if you don't learn some discipline instead of me pushing you around it might be that the Enemy would be pushing your folks around All right, I gave you a hard time about running out in a GI party Maybe you thought it was important But it was when a man's under orders. He does his own work every second That's a habit you get into it right here in basic training You don't it'll mean lives later. I See what you mean Maybe you won't ever see combat. I'm putting a B on God every chance I get to see that you won't And Maybe you're right. Maybe maybe I am just a bum. That's what you call me a wasted effort Sure, but there are some things I can teach you And they're the things you'll have to know if you ever do see combat You're gonna learn them whether you like it or not nobody Nobody's gonna turn the lights out on one of you boys as long as I can help it He gave me a week's restriction to the company area Oh, not for sounding off about him, but for getting caught at it in his words a Trooper's got to know what's going on around him Would I say he's qualified to talk to the public you bet I would Next to the enemy I was his worst enemy And he was the best friend I ever had Sergeant first-class Palachek had a lot of friends. He never knew he had 300 from that particular training cycle, but he had friends he knew about to some Who knew him better than he knew himself? My name was Maura McCafferty when I first met Bill We went through high school together or through most of high school anyway Bill enlisted in the army in his senior year the year World War two broke out We wrote a lot of letters, but I didn't see him again until he came back from overseas Then we got married and we spent his leave time on our honeymoon Then set up housekeeping near the fort where Bill was stationed until Korea Wasn't easy getting used to Bill when he came back from there Sometimes he'd grind his teeth and mutter in his sleep And sometimes he couldn't sleep at all Those nights I didn't sleep much either It just didn't seem fair Awake Bill. Oh Yeah, yeah, I'm awake honey Just listening to that big mouse clock allows want me to put it in the drawer Might not hit in the morning It's not the clock anyway You dreaming again? Just lying here trying to get my thoughts sorted out So many things to think about I Can't even worry about the long-term things yet long-term things What we're gonna do when I get out, you know, how am I gonna support you can't think about those things much yet You don't have to bill will be alright Yes, sure it will It's a company, you know, I can't stop thinking about the company Not for a long time yet honey You go back to sleep. I will a little bit Want to talk? Talk that's about all I do was talk I get tired of hearing the sound of my own voice Have anything like that happens you honey? No You hear this voice going on Then you stop and wonder who's doing all the talking and when you stop think about it the voice stops You find out it's you And you wonder if there's ever anybody talking but you I get sick sicker here myself It's nothing I can do about it make-up classes called in cadence What happened today bill Lot of things But there's one thing I think about it was a rifle inspection this afternoon, you know Most of them kids had their rifles shining like sunlight Except in one spot where it really counts What spot is that rear sight mostly that little round peep sight you aim through I had a toy So almost every one of them I had to tell him to take his rifle back clean it over again Once they said so Joe this rifle is filthy. They only got mud on it But I can see fresh tracks in the mud don't bring it back till it's clean Did you being a little hard on them hard on them more a honey How are them kids gonna stay alive and combat if they haven't even got sense to keep their sights clean They're gonna do it That's why you've got to keep talking and guess bill You've got to give them a sense It's your job. Yeah, it's my job If I don't do it, right Somebody's gonna turn the lights out on some of them boys Sure is shooting if I don't do it right somebody's gonna turn the lights out on some of them Bill was hard to get used to But I think I knew my husband pretty well before he went back to Korea Bill was sweet And I know he'd never lie about anything important. I Think he was qualified to talk to just about anybody I'd listen to him if I were you When men gather together to study soldiering Some learn by watching and listening There are always some who give a minimum of effort to study some who'd rather follow the ones who've already learned Like me My name is Wellstrom There was a lot of basic training that was too much like school for me I never was any good at that kind of stuff So I just watched the others and if one of the other guys did a thing a certain way Then I'd do it just about the same way. I got by okay for a while But well, there's some things man has just got to learn for himself I learned that one day when the whole company was out in the field We were in the mines and booby trap area and some of the instructors from division faculty had just finished giving us a lecture about landmines Well after the first hour we got a ten minute smoke break We're all down at the bottom of a little hill and I saw the sergeant cut out for the top when he got there in turn I Didn't know it then but the whole hillside had been rigged and triggered No, not not with real mines, but with firecrackers set on mine fuses Sir, I asked if you're looking where you're going why I guess so sir What kind of a question is that am I a Firecracker made a lot of smoke, but I could see down the hill most of the company was laughing and I Guess I kind of laughed at myself Then I turned around so a sergeant Paula check He wasn't laughing. What are you laughing at? Well, it's room. I I Guess myself sir that have been a real mine. You'd be dead in a half. You'd be all over the landscape. You think that's funny No, sir, why'd you set it off? I I Guess my foot caught a trip wire sir. No well strum your foot didn't do it. You did it. You weren't thinking Look, we brought you boys all the way out here in the tulis to teach you about mines and booby traps And why would we bring you all the way out here to tell you something? We could tell you back in the company area. I don't know sir You don't how will I tell you the army spends a big part of your basic training teaching you how to stay alive This whole area is full of this kind of stuff phony anti-personnel anti-tank mines I'm gonna set a whole company out probe and form after the next lecture, but you you already found one Yes, sir. Awesome. I called you up this hill because I've been watching you sometimes you let other people do your thinking for you You just watch somebody your figure knows how Well when it comes to some things like mines, you don't always have somebody to watch you understand that Yes, sir Report to me after child tonight. I'm gonna ask questions about what you learned today You'd better have some answers He made me show him my notebook once a week after that, but I didn't mind much He made a lot of other guys do the same thing After basic training, I didn't see Sergeant Paula check anymore at not until one night about 10 months later in Korea Fighting was still going on and the communists were throwing everything at us except each other But most of it was going right over the top. I Was dug in there a little rise of ground near the front when I heard somebody crawling toward Take it easy. I'm on your team. Okay, come ahead. Oh man if they lower that stuff There's gonna be some lights going on along this line Hey Hey, you're Sergeant Paula chair. Yeah, don't you remember me? Huh? Well stroke You put me through my basic training tomorrow. Yeah, yeah, you're the tangle foot, you know, you don't look the same with a beard I didn't know you could grow one Yeah, yeah neither did I that's their big stuff going over. I understand. We've been knocking our day lights out of the Mista here. Yeah, they're great, huh? Well, I Better get on Where you going? Just checking the line. I'm gonna be moving up in the morning moving up. Yeah, you'll be hearing more about it Hey, there's Sergeant. Yeah I've been carrying this letter around for a couple of days now to your folks. What's to my? It's it's it's just a letter and any mailboxes where I'm going Maybe in a couple of days kids. Okay. I'll keep it then Thanks anyway Well, that's just getting too close. See you later Somebody ought to get busy and tell the world there ain't no glory in a war. Yeah, but You get pushed you push back Are you gonna get away from and I figure that out? Maybe I'll do the talent keep your head down. Same to you What a guy? Lord that was too close the sergeant Sergeant Paula check Sergeant that was when I first met Sergeant first-class Paula check Oh, we've really known each other for quite a number of years and he's spoken to me many times But this time was different What's going on here? Hey turned out the lights on your bill then I'm dead. You feel dead Feel different. Well, didn't you expect that? So I'm really I mean they really turned the lights out on me. Did they they really dead bill? I Gotta think this thing over. What do you have to think over? I got people. I'm gonna feel pretty bad with me Gone, what about my wife? Who's gonna look after it? Your people are in good hands And the boys I trained they too are in good hands, but the war there will be a truce in your war You mean war be finished. Well, that depends on the people They must decide that of their own free wills other people, huh? Look if I'm where I think I am I can have just about anything I want Anything within reason fine fine, then if you don't mind fall them all out I want a great big company formation right here in front of me Fall them all out everybody in the world. I'm gonna talk to them This thing is up to the people and I want to talk to them. I said within reason bill People must choose to do things If that should cease even for a moment man would lose the reason for existence Choice must come from man's free will. Yeah, sure. That's fine. I just want to help make up their minds And you said that I know I know but I said within reason Perhaps you could talk to a few 50 million But they must listen because they want to and I'll be reasonable 50 million and like you said they can listen if they want But they got to be from all over the world. All right, Bill, but it will take time to arrange Time to arrange and it can't be done your way It will have to be handled through normal channels. I've waited a long time for this Maybe that's a pretty good thing It's Given me time to think out What I want to say First off, I want you to understand I'm talking to all of you not not just Americans This program has heard in a lot of places like Asia Europe South America more than a dozen countries But it makes no difference to me what country you're in What you do for a living? Who you are I got an arrangement to talk to all of you people and well What I got to say is this peace is up to you Nobody else you personally if you want peace You got to go to God And ask for it Ask him to help your country's leaders find a good and lasting peace for every nation on earth Because unless God helps those leaders Unless he does you people are gonna be stumbling in and out of wars just the same way you have been for the last 40,000 years Now I never got my own way much outside of my unit in the army. I can't order you to pray for peace now All I can do is Ask Ask you for all of us for all the soldiers and civilians who Ever died or got hurt in a war Work on it you people peace Is up to you This is Jimmy Durranti again as we all know the purpose of family theater is to further the practice of prayer Family prayer just before the show tonight I was looking over a list of the hundreds of stars of stage screen and radio Who have contributed their time and talent to appear on family theater and in their way to urge you and your family to pray together? It's quite a list. We entertainers feel a real friendship to family theater We like to think of ourselves of members of this family too After all family theater is striving to bring to their audience hold sale entertainment and sound guidance Anyone who has been a steady listen at the family theater can vouch for the high Holds some quality of its entertainment as for the guidance it gives What could be of greater value to any American than the way of strengthening the unity of his country at its foundation? The family the slogan of family theater points that way very simply the family that prays together stays together More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of Tom Hollywood family theater has brought you the Kadrimen Starring Barry Sullivan Jimmy Durranti was your host others in our cast were Virginia Greg John Stevenson Whitfield Connor and Tom Holland With music composed and conducted by Harry Zimmerman and was directed and transcribed for family theater by John T. 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