This Is the Army Page #3

To a land that's free

Let us all be grateful

For a land so fair

As we raise our voices

In our solemn prayer

God bless America

Land that I love

Stand beside her and guide her

Through the night with a light

From above

From the mountains, through the prairies

To the oceans white with foam

God bless America

My home sweet home

ALL:

God bless America

Land that I love

Stand beside her

[SINGING CONTINUES O VER SPEAKERS]

-Goodbye, Daddy.

-Bye, dear.

-Don't be Iate.

-Nope.

Right, Pop?

Right, son.

[" GOD BLESS AMERICA"

PLAYING O VER RADIO]

Kind of makes you think of BIake,

doesn't it?

Makes you think of a Iot of things.

We're going to be in this yet, Mom.

[TURNS VOLUME UP]

-HeIIo, son.

JOHNNY:
Hi, Mom.

JERRY:

HeIIo, darIing.

-New song?

-Brand new, first time on the air.

Brand new my eye.

You know, I threw that song

out of Yip! Yip! Yaphank! 22 years ago.

Sounds better now.

God bless America

My home

Sweet

Home

[APPLAUSE]

[EXPLOSIONS]

JOHNNY:

I guess that's aII, Mrs. NeIson.

I just wondered if there was

anything I couId do.

No, Johnny.

Thanks.

He was a great guy.

Yes.

How is--?

Dorothy and BIake's baby?

WeII, naturaIIy,

Dorothy is very upset and she--

She feeIs kind of aIone and heIpIess

with a baby that BIake never even saw.

I asked her to move in here with us,

but her pride and....

I don't know what she's going to do.

JOHNNY:
Must be tough on a young wife,

a baby.

I hadn't thought about it.

CaII me

if there's anything I can do, pIease.

Thanks, Johnny, but Ted is the man of

the house now and he'II Iook after things.

I'm sure he wiII.

-Goodbye.

-Goodbye.

Look, Ma, Iook.

Ted gave aII his stuff to me.

Even his best cIothes.

Ted?

Yes, Mom.

I've got a IittIe business to take care of

for BIake.

Gee, I hope this is a Iong war.

I wanna get in it too.

[PAPER CRINKLING]

-There you are.

-Thank you.

Thank you.

-I'd Iike a coupIe of dozen miIitary marches.

-Yes, sir.

Johnny, what happened to you?

Nothing, I just changed cIothes.

-You've enIisted.

-You knew it was gonna happen.

Oh, you Iook wonderfuI in that uniform.

Not any better than the rest.

We aII have the same taiIor.

It's 9:
30 and I gotta report at 5:30

in the morning.

That gives us eight hours

to do the town.

I can't Ieave yet.

Dad isn't coming back tonight.

-I've gotta keep the store open tiII 1 0.

-Miss DibbIe, this is war.

-We're cIosing the joint right now.

-Oh. Oh.

-Come on, quit staIIing.

-Wait a minute.

[DANCE MUSIC PLAYING O VER SPEAKERS]

[CROWD APPLAUDING, CHATTERING]

Ladies and gentIemen,

Miss Frances Langford.

[APPLAUSE]

[BAND STARTS PLAYING

"WHAT DOES HE LOOK LIKE" ]

[SINGING]

Johnny Doughboy overseas

Filled with pride and joy

Stopping everyone he meets

And shouting, "It's a boy"

What does he look like, that boy of mine?

Since the news came

I can't get him off my mind

Does he resemble his homely dad?

Does he look like the girl

That I left behind?

Bring on the Germans

And bring on the Japs

Bring on the first who you can find

One for the rascal I haven't seen

And one for the girl that I left behind

ALL:

What does he look like,

that boy of mine?

Since the news came

I can't get him off my mind

Does he resemble his homely dad?

Does he look like the girl

That I left behind?

Bring on the Germans

And bring on the Japs

Bring on the first who you can find

One for the rascal I haven't seen

And one for the girl that I left behind

[APPLAUSE]

That must be a wonderfuI feeIing

for a soIdier:

-To know there's somebody waiting for him.

-Yeah.

-EspeciaIIy a wife.

-A wife?

Sure, it's very simpIe.

We stand in front of a minister,

he asks me the question, I say, " I do."

Then he asks you the question,

you say, " I do."

Or do you say, " I do" ?

Honey, what couId I offer you

as the wife of a soIdier?

A home, any kind of Iife together?

Just the right to write me Ietters.

You have that now.

I couId sign them " Mrs. Johnny J.P. Jones."

I've practiced.

And address them to Private Jones,

U.S. Army.

-Destination:
Unknown.

-But, Johnny--

Look, honey, we've been going together

since we were kids.

We can wait for marriage a IittIe Ionger.

Much as I Iove you,

that's just not for us right now.

We're not gonna get married

before you Ieave?

No, honey.

And I know that's best.

It was proven to me.

How was it proven?

WeII....

[SIGHS]

That's what I thought.

Oh, Iook, that wouId be

the romantic thing to do.

FeIIas aII over the country,

aII over the worId...

...marrying just as they get into uniform.

I don't have the right.

I've offered you the right.

WeII, I guess I better get home.

Thanks for Ietting me know

how you feeI about things.

PIease don't foIIow me, Johnny.

I'm IiabIe to say something

I'II be sorry for the rest of my Iife.

[PEOPLE LAUGHING]

DarIing? DarIing, where are you?

-Here. What is it? What's the matter?

-Oh, it's Danny.

Danny's enIisted.

Oh, that's wonderfuI. A son who does it

the hard way. Where is he?

Hiya, Pop.

-The Navy?

-WeII, Pop, between us...

...we have the situation in hand.

He does Iook rather nice, though,

doesn't he?

But, Danny, how couId you?

[PLAYING BUGLE CALL]

LEADER:

One, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four.

-One, two, three, four.

-Hey.

-What's going on?

-One, two--

-Bend down, here's the buII of the woods.

-Hey, arms down.

What's the matter with you, Twardofsky?

Don't you Iike our earIy caIisthenics?

-I didn't Iike them at first.

-Didn't at first?

-How do you Iike them now?

-I'm stiII on first.

-Sarge?

-Sarge?

-How'd you get in the Army?

-PoIitics.

Po--? Is that a reason?

Look, sarge, and I got three reasons

for being in the Army.

First, I'm patriotic.

Second, I Iove my country.

And third, they naiIed me.

And that goes for me too.

Listen, you two boys report to me

immediateIy after this formation.

Take them away, sarge.

You and my big mouth.

-Sergeant McGee.

-Eddie.

-Why, I see you're stiII with your first Iove.

-That's exactIy right.

-Look at aII the peopIe coming in.

-Yeah, it Iooks Iike Sunday at the zoo.

Gotta hang up a sign saying,

"PIease do not feed the soIdiers."

See your father?

-He's with the C.O., getting reacquainted.

-So is mine.

Took another war

to get those guys together again.

There's a Iot of mothers and sweethearts

in that mob.

Speaking of sweethearts, get a Ioad

of that miIitary objective approaching us.

-ShaII I trip her?

-Hey, take it easy, yard bird.

The young Iady happens to be

a friend of mine.

-HeIIo, Johnny.

-HeIIo.

-I didn't expect to see you here.

-Neither did I.

Look, Tommy, why don't you take

a ride now? I'II see you Iater.

Okay, maybe I'II pick up an MP.

WeII. What brings you way up here

in the sticks?

Dad came down

to the oId-timer's reunion...

...and he insisted that I come aIong

at the Iast minute.

Sit down.

Thanks.

How do you Iike my new home?

WeII, it's big enough.

-What do you think of the Army by now?

-SweII.

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