Benson worked for money andhe made plenty of
mistakes.
Well, just multiply these thoughts by millions of
fellowslike me.
I guess were notvery refined when we get mad,
Adolf.
We cannot compute mortality statistics for
occupiedPoland. Imfrom Blue Eye, Missouri, and the side-walks of New
York.
The Navy wasnt supposed to sink five Jap
aircraftcarriers in the battle of Midway.
NARRATOR: Thats what the clock keeps ticking,
Adolf. We kick about taxes and we kick about red tape.
NARRATOR: Heres one from an airplane
plant.
NARRATOR: How about it, twenty million workmen?
Were crazy about jigs and dies and tools that maketools. The war against the
children of your foesWith bombs and treachery and slow starvation. Thats what youve
done to the women of Germany. Four and a half million of us by the end of this year.
I used to be a carpenter and a schoolteacher and a soda jerkerand a mechanic. Its a
war in which laborer andemployer must fight shoulder to shoulder or perish side by
side.
It will go to Corregidor andthere await
transportation. We sat around and argued, over here, while you were cooking with
gas. The last war was bad and yet it was far awayFor us, for most here, for the
lucky.
But I am not so much like those people in Ohio as I
usedto be.
Bataan may fall but the eventual outcome of the war
isforeordained.
All unions are now a part of the Labor
Front.
NARRATOR: Heres one from an airplane
plant.
Nobody ever leftthis world alive and very few of us
get to die for a cause. Every time I complete myparticular work on an airplane
assembly, I speed it on the way tomy sons.
We are not a people who could survive
bynonresistance.
But I have also seen some very wonderful acts
ofcourage, self-sacrifice and loyalty.