Patrioscript; Conquered, the unconquerable, and I

Yeah. College radio playing patriotic. And on. Today's play is one of a series produced by the college radio players under a grant from the National Association of educational broadcasters through the fund education foundation. New York Harbor the Statue of Liberty. And coming to America and much of. Icelandic she stands at the Statue of Liberty the mother told me how she would look and how I must not lose one moment but must go to her quickly before it was too late. Rani said run to America before they can trap you here in Iceland. Did not you run in Iceland there is no need to run north in America my father said I wonder how it would be. We were always running

always waiting for the knock on the door always hiding. Sometimes it seems that in all my childhood even we were waiting for them to come and conquer us. The Nazis the communists the kilos always the fear the constant. I was never afraid. My ancestors were Vikings Marta Vikings who braved the North Seas when no other man would have dared to sail. They did not care man or nature my father your father you speak so much. Have your father where is he then. If he was so eager to have you come to America why did he not come with you in Katine forest. They slaughtered our Polish leaders and dumped them into crude ditches body upon body thousands of them. All the rich blood of Poland poured into the ditches of Katine and buried all that was fine and noble and brilliant in Poland they killed buried it in the graves of Cashion forest. This strong of mind the sturdy of body the leaders the officers killed and buried at Katine.

Huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Did you hear it. Did you hear the voice Austin. It was only the wind blowing through the statute and my father said If you listened she would speak. Perhaps you did not hear Asta because you are not tired or poor. You breathe free now. The wretched refuse. The homeless tempest tossed to me only as she said the home I have a home. I come only because I wanted to come. I have a home in Iceland in the homeless tempest tossed to me. She sat down. Did you speak to me here or did you hear a voice last I heard a voice. I did. Soft and low. A woman's voice drawn like your voice on step. Yet there was a softness a compassion in a close daughter are you the daughter of bigness and memory of Poland

the graves for Bohemia the strains of the walls. No more of Vienna and the gayety is gone and there are only tears in Warsaw and Cracow and Vienna. You look tired woman. Take my hand my arm has been raised for so long. My hands have reached out to help so many. You take my hand. Though you have known democracy over a thousand years. You have not brought as many paths as I take my mark. I will show you there are rivers and forests that are now red with the blood. You will see that beautiful things together. The three of the conqueror. Call Grubel. The sounds of the

will and the atomic weapon. This is a woman of America. That's why did you want something. I mean I got to have a date tonight. Got to rush him and put on the old legs and get out of there. This is the day the blood will be all you need to score. Don't you get that kind of love. I didn't have time. Dolly I just got an hour for lunch. I work a 40 hour week as it is. There are one hundred and sixty eight hours a week give you time to stop the blood. I tell you it's like this lady. I'm not doing that kind of stuff anymore. Good one. One time I asked for you and your game plan because it's into government service. I'm replacing the man now for the paycheck you get the

40 hour week what's left of it. There's not much left by the time the government wakes up its percent and you've got to have health insure. Once in a million other deductions on deduction Perhaps I Told You Lately I've cut out that stuff. The government can have this will me. No think you. I'm sitting this one out. I'll see you at the dinner as long as our government does administrator for the good of the people and is regulated by their will. As long as it's a curios to us the rights of persons under property the liberty of conscience and the press. It will be worth defending. You just say something Andrew Jackson said. And join the dance then. But be cautious lest you become the goose that crumpled empire. The police the police will arrest you for what you just said about the government. It is her freedom. Given to her by that government. Her freedom of speech. We dance to drain our meek. I danced with Ragnar one night under the flares of the Northern

Lights. I too like to read you real ones with an army man. Washington mine he was one who liked to dance but knew when to stop and he had good friends besides his own men. Those those for. Laughlin. And I had a cobbler fell in South Carolina fighting and Baron Steuben. And though the hoops for. Those Polo co-CEOs go and Polaski. Take my daughter. Close your eyes against wars and we will walk together you and. We will walk together and. The three of us. The congress. The churches of America as you choose then.

Mary. We are the tabernacle. Freedom. Your freedom of worship. We must cling to these freedom. The three of us. Are violent Kansas waving in the wind. As golden as the lamp and the harbor as bright as the light beside the door. Your freedom from want. How shall I know they will not come and take away the voting the men and women are voting. These are the government these people

going to the polls. Women women. Listen to me. Did you go to the polls to clubs listen to me. Did you vote today. Today was the day to die I am an amendment to the constitution for which your mothers fought. Have you forgotten so soon. Free hard citizens of the United States. Shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state count of sex. Be vigilant you hold so lightly your right to vote. You will read only your fashions and never. Know. Not only was the mold in the Danube and the Rhine flow their blood into the Columbia and the Ohio and the Missouri. They'd be less the white birch of Minnesota.

The yellow pine of Louisiana. And the sugar maples of New England become the Forrest of the team. To hold out the enemies of freedom. Guard it well and you know it well believe in it. Hold firmly to your faith and it. Made your mistress in the American woman at home. She is asleep. Tell her we have come and I would have her shown to conquer. But faith in America teller I would however show these two women the duties of the American woman in defense of America. She is asleep and does not wish to be disturbed when she awakens tell of it I came a knock at the door and she was sleeping.

Color that someday they might come while she is sleeping. Only they may not bother to know. Is it something so important then it can't we know it cannot wake. There is not time. Is it something about these these foreigners here. They are lions never. These are part of me. I have grown tired women my arms have reached around the world my hands outstretched across the ocean. Ma heart grieve for my son who shall never come home. My veins have grown thin from too much bleeding and my eyes are weak. I would say they brought nothing with them nothing. They bring the culture with the desire for freedom and has give me.

You give me your father's. The right hand. And while you watch the work on the farm and by the fireside. Or. How can I close my ears to the cries of your father one moment.

Stand back with your life. On. College radio. And I was directed by. Heard our liberty and today's story was Nancy one felt it was played by Sally born and Nancy not amount was much of others in today's cast included Eleanor Douglas Joe Tam and production was by Tom Reed and Robert gets engineered to conquer the unconquerable and I was presented by the Grinnell College

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