The North Star Page #6

Why, the whole

village will be --

our time has come to fight.

It does no good for me to lie.

Men with rocks and clubs are

not good against machine guns.

Now, there will be

five men to a gun.

You know it, and I'll say it.

This may be the last time

we ride down a hill.

What do you say?

All right. Saddle your horses.

Take up your watch

at the pine grove.

And when Boris gets

here with the guns,

rush him down to the

north cornfield.

Pray that he arrives in time.

All right. The selected

men, dismount.

The rest of you wait here

until you see the gas aflame,

and then ride to the

schoolyard and ride fast.

Barricade it soon as you get in.

You know the plan.

Each group knows what to do.

Now let's do it.

All right. Now for

the gasoline.

Let's keep it pouring.

Down! We are fighting

in the village!

I'll take you!

They're our men!

They've come to fight.

Sophia, Nadya, our

children are home!

The children!

Nadya!

Grisha.

Anna!

My baby is home!

Damian, it's your mother.

Damian!

Mama.

Mama.

Grandpa!

Gran--

I have come for another

visit, Dr. Von Harden.

I'll only be a minute, doctor.

Sulfanilamide.

Come in, Dr. Kurin.

You do not like Dr. Richter.

I do not like

incompetent doctors.

I do not like much

of what I have done

for the past nine years.

You do not like bleeding

children to their death?

The boy died?

You knew he would die!

They took too much blood.

I am sorry for that.

Yes, I believe you when

you tell me you're sorry.

I'm sorry for many

things, Dr. Kurin.

Most sorry that it isn't

the world we used to know.

I have heard about

men like you --

civilized men who are sorry.

This?

This kind is nothing.

They will go when

their bosses go.

But men like you, who have

contempt for men like him --

to me, you are the real filth.

Men who do the work of fascists

while they pretend to themselves

that they are better than the

beasts for whom they work.

Men who do murder

while they laugh at those

who order them to do it.

It is men like you who have sold

their people to men like him.

You see, Dr. Von Harden,

you were wrong

about many things.

I am a man who kills.

You, uh, feel you'll

need this thing, huh?

I like it.

We will come home someday.

I want to sew again.

And you will want to

write your book again.

We are not so old.

They tell me you were

very brave, Grandpa.

And why not, child?

I'm of the same blood

as you and Clavdia.

It's gone.

There will be another someday.

Yes.

It will be different for us.

Wars don't leave

people as they were.

All people will learn this

and come to see that

wars do not have to be.

We'll make this the last war.

We'll make a free

world for all men.

The Earth belongs to us, the

people, if we fight for it.

And we will fight for it!

Our forest, our river

We'll fight for

land and home

Our land we'll deliver

back to its own

A dream we cherish

And never perish

And we'll be free

men once more

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