IT CAN'T LAST

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh mother if you're taking a look at the morning [Music] morning Freddie [Music] hey right up the churchyard question with my bike key they was pretty close their season opens tomorrow always you to say the air smell different on the opening day maybe the first frost at night dead leaves someone burning brush off somewhere can I have an apple sure thing say let's see the paper Freddie toss her up here listen to this mother another 25 thousand prisoners though I said the war to be over this fall looks like he's right doesn't look like it could last that much longer Hey then maybe glad to be home for Christmas huh quit well maybe not that soon Savior heard from that brother of yours lately not for a couple of weeks mother's kind of worried you tell your mother not to worry about Quincy Martin he can take care of himself yeah well I gotta get going so long Freddie news like this and a morning like this hard to keep your mind on the wall makes you think of things like a new car plenty of gas in the tank and tires with real treads on maybe a bag of charcoal under the seat and the steak in order people Oh roof roof you all rascal make your mouth water old boy well whoopee long rule can't last much longer walk on he's almost done any way you look at it it's almost over [Music] coffee roof let's go get it the bottom lashes [Music] Rachel and pilot ten minutes to objective over Roger out how'd you figure that Wendy with a slide rule you cannot gather them too much alone you lose touch with time radioman to pilot turn request correct time for the land in the greenhouse over local correct time standby 21:39 mark for the information of the unseen audience in the turret gunner see 21:39 makes 939 on that dark kilometer you count the years by that le does 41:39 make 739 in the morning my time looks like morning dungeon for the look like morning in Connecticut find something it might not hear make seven something ham in God's country God's half of it east half of it sing it out for himself I have often smells a morning coffee right this minute clear from k-band of Buffalo hello red leader this is Colin bass report whether over [Music] carnate this is red leader top 22 bottom six cloud covers tell them over when leader conveyed the plan under mattress or well yep make 739 a.m. and October what's the hater October you're doing huh the same one thing could you twelve times a year only warmed over and warmer Connecticut it's horri frost on the grass and grouse in the pine box never see the Litchfield County Hills at half past seven in October no ever expected and again you change look out five six seven Starlin base this is red leader Tallyho skunks heavy cruisers destroyers seven transports course seven three request permission to attack over here goes old blood and guts lazy again red leader gone vain permission granted Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] three [Music] how bad clink oh I see hello radioman dupatta [Music] we I know a lonely spot when they light it up and how do you feel good well only here [Music] if I never came up did he didn't even try to get out [Music] could it be hot [Music] [Applause] you're the guy who called it October okay but I don't tell time by pathetic I don't crazy it kind of brings it nearer sure [Music] they should think of a cloud these two using a zig link trainer for they trusted us out a student pilot and he still thought they'd get teachers navigation back at school remember that came Pacific on the screen and the cloud they used to squirt across it too full of really look really nice things [Music] only then if you lost yourself in the log you could talk to the wave on the other end of the wire tell them to turn the lights off [Music] and she did the hair you're worth [Music] sort of silly look back home [Music] remember that way like curly hair the nape of the neck you don't wanna feel your head with the look the long way back to that sloth two years in how many missions 40 50 no need to think of the world going on somewhere else without you is not father first time ever felt like that was it Carl see remember yeah I remember where we lost [Music] give a call in the flat top and no ads I guess we all knew why but it didn't help much the light about God cares about God and I skipper cool as a cucumber Rain Purple Rain vector tall create then have that voice all strange boys calling us into a strange ship I learned about Navy sailor right then when we hit that tank but geez before they hurt us what we need Pete is a wave at the other end of the phone turn that sky [Music] [Applause] [Music] or you and I are alone I'm telling you never were two guys so much alone what do you mean alone have we got the squadron shiver but where are they 300 miles south-southeast they got home and haven't we got the flattop back of the squadron you're a good guy Pete I can't last and that much longer and back to the front honestly if they Heil forget us [Music] sure-sure quince back in the fleet the whole damn country every man and woman in it every kid in those pine locks in Connecticut whatever time it is in the afternoon whatever they're doing wherever they're going there isn't one that wouldn't be with us they're all part of the same thing twins same thing we are the same war Oh hard ways Oh tight they're all part of it around there all around here here weather like this mother couldn't get it out of my head all day an open car angel of gas that gun in the pool evening Freddie night Freddie the man can't think about war in this kind of weather the war almost finished at that can't last much longer mother it can't last [Music] you're right mr. Squires the war can't last much longer part of it can't last much longer not the way it's going not if we keep it going the way it's going but that doesn't mean mr. Squires and you would be one of the first to say so if you thought about it you and thousands of others like you that doesn't mean that the war is any easier to fight it is tough to dive in the last flak to land on the last beach to slug it out in the last engagement as the first if anything it's tougher mr. Squier the hardest blow to hit in a fight is the last one because it is the last it takes everything a people had to hit the last blow in a war and make it last the heart and all the wheel and all the purpose your heart your will your purpose you can't forget the war because it's almost over mr. surprise it's because it's almost over that you must think about it think about it as you've never thought before and work for it harder and give to it harder it's as hard mr. Squires to fight in the last battle of a war as in the first it is hard forgive me to die at the end of as its beginning maybe it's even fun [Music] you [Music]