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I want to steal rocket ship from Luna arriving from Moon at rocket cradle for the election.
Mommy, is that it? Is that the one with daddy on it?
Billy, I told you before daddy's spaceship arrives here several hours ago.
The spaceship from Mars is in here since 11 o'clock.
And where is he? What on earth do I see my daddy?
Cause darling, all the soldiers have to go through quarantine and army regulations and all sorts of things.
Why am I daddy's a space soldier? All but he had all sorts of adventures. All but he has to.
As mentioned, please. Quiet, Billy. Listen.
All of us is a military personnel of rocket ship NASA.
Flight 82 from Mars. All they blew far.
Resort to day five.
Oh, Billy, that's us. The soldiers are going to come out in a few minutes.
Come on darling, come on.
Billy, no, no. What's that noise? Why are you here?
Watch where you're walking, Billy.
Of course, he'll know you there. He'll see me first and then he'll see you.
All I ever saw is his picture.
Stand by that rope, Billy. We can take eight five from here.
Boy, you'll tell me all about the war on Mars.
Oh, Billy, it's so good to have him back.
Five years. Five long years.
Can I see the spaceship later, how long?
A lady, maybe?
Reminds me of the military personnel of spaceship villains.
Lynn, you're not crossed for white lines.
They're starting to come out now.
Look, that man here in the white uniform.
He's in a town of gunners. My picture of towns all about them.
Eleven weeks on the spaceship getting tomorrow.
Eleven weeks coming back to Earth.
And more than four years fighting on Mars.
Five years.
Billy, stand by, do cross the white lines.
Life, nothing.
Rocket ship, greater from Earth to Moon.
Will glass broken infinity?
From rocket grid line.
Left, left, right, right.
There, there, y'all.
There, there, y'all.
Who was there? Nothing on me, a band.
They're going to play music.
They're welcoming the soldier's home, Billy.
The first soldier's home from the war on Mars.
Mars knows he's coming out, mommy.
Oh, Billy, I'm so excited.
Do you see what?
Hey, mom, that's a rocket ship with the green uniform.
Oh, boy, he should rocket time.
I don't see him.
I don't see him yet.
So many men, so many.
Can I have a drink of water, mom?
I'm thirsty.
I don't see him yet.
I still don't see him.
I want a drink.
Billy, not now.
Oh, look, I think that's daddy.
No.
No, it's not.
Oh, my, Michael, where are you?
I'm going to show my daddy, my toy gun.
What place Facebook is together?
What a fondly.
Billy, I see him.
I see your daddy.
Will, which one is he?
Place one, Billy.
He's looking around to see over here.
He's in the yellow uniform over there.
Michael, Michael's out here.
Here we are, Michael.
He sees his mommy.
He's running through as he's pushing the other people away.
Oh, you look so wonderful.
Where are you?
Michael, Michael.
Oh, my mama, where are you trying?
The girl is coming home, dude.
Michael's coming home.
He's going to kill ya.
Your daddy has come.
Oh, my God.
Mary.
Mary darling.
Tommy.
Oh, so long since I've held you.
But, Michael, you've got to meet your son.
Hello, son.
Hello.
Is that all you've got to say to your daddy?
He doesn't have to say anything.
Just let me look at him.
Oh, you've got forever to do that now, darling.
Because you're a home.
Oh, and so your head's come home.
Three o'clock in the afternoon, mom.
Why is daddy asleep?
He was tired, Billy.
He wanted to rest.
He didn't talk much when we came home, daddy.
No, but he will.
No one he will have a lot to talk about.
Hey, I think I heard him getting up.
We'll open the door carefully and begin.
Now be quiet in case he's still asleep.
All right, I'm awake.
Oh, well, you slept two hours.
I haven't been asleep, I'm just lying here.
You're something wrong, Michael.
Do you feel all right?
Sure, sure.
Just can't get used to being home.
I'll make a snack for you.
Billy, now you can talk to your father.
Come here, son.
Sit on the bed.
OK, dad.
I'll call you when everything's ready.
What do you want to tell me, Billy?
I don't know.
But your mother said it.
Do you like me?
Well, of course I like you.
Will you play with me?
Well, I'm a little tired, son, but now I guess it can be arranged.
What do you want to play?
Soldiers, face soldiers.
You're a soldier, no?
There's nothing else.
You don't like me.
Just play something else at home.
Oh, the kids think it's all my dad's a face soldier.
Nobody else in my gang has a dad who's gone to Mars.
I told him when my dad came home, he showed me how to play real soldiers.
And he had a bite.
Stop talking about it.
Yes, sir.
Well, don't say yes, sir, do me.
I don't ever want to hear you say that.
Wow.
Stop crying, man, aren't supposed to cry.
Face soldier.
200 years of the world hasn't had a war.
200 years of human race finally got peace.
Federated world in the years after 2000.
Science flourishes, civilization grows.
Then we learn how to travel and how to space.
First the moon for scientific observations.
Then we go on to other planets, Mars.
The one planet we know is capable of sustaining human life.
And all the 200 years of peace gets rotted away.
Because the Earth wants to explore Mars and a Martian's object.
New worlds to conquer where the Columbus is of 2000 plus.
And the interplanetary war begins.
We have to fight for every canal, every inch on Mars.
Well, I don't want any son of mine thinking it's so great.
I hate it.
Hate it.
I was going to place face soldier.
Face soldier.
What did I do for the romance of Mars, the mysteries of the unknown?
How can you or anybody on this particular world,
what it's like in that unhuman place called Mars?
Place, face soldier, play.
I remember the patrol.
Patrol into the red grass.
Blade, sharp as sword, covered with that thickness of a Martian vegetation.
We went on patrol 14 of us.
I was the patrol leader.
All right, let's stop in it.
Oh, oh, oh.
No, that's not what it is.
Can't see anything.
Just the red grass.
Wait, about a mile and a half over there.
A sand belt can give me a glasses.
Yeah, that's right.
However, the grass meets the sand belt we're going to be careful.
Those sand spiders, more dangerous than a cobra.
One bite in your dead and half a minute.
Men are all wearing shin boots.
We better put on our mask and gloves, too.
Sometimes a spider crawls up the clothing.
OK.
Masks and gloves, protective gear.
Oh, no.
That's too quiet.
I've always got the feeling the Martians are around when it's this quiet.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
We'll go on now.
Leo, you take four men and cover the left.
Use electric rifles.
Yes, sir.
Have no Roni take four men and cover the right, torpedo pistol.
Yes, sir.
Ted and I'll take the other men and move straight on.
Ted, we're used atomic shell clips in our guns.
We meet our position and have to blast them.
Leo's and more Roni's groups can cover us as we move around the area we've radiated.
And better keep our belt, Gregor County's handy.
OK, Captain.
Let's move.
This line from the grass sticks to every tail.
Kevin, Kevin is sharp rough.
And certainly aren't any Martians on that sand belt every time.
They're around here at all.
They're between us and the sand belt, hiding in this red grass.
Look at that.
Sir, boy, no step on this good order.
Didn't see it.
That's too slow.
The flowers are hard as ivory.
It's a carnivorous plant.
You walk too close to it with about your leg and half.
Mars, the nightmare planet will keep moving.
And keep your eyes peeled for killer vegetation and enemy Martian.
It's getting hot.
It always gets like another about this time of day.
Leo's group is moving ahead.
Apparently they found nothing dangerous yet.
Hello!
Hello!
Are you waving?
Everything's OK.
Don't be too sure.
Look over there.
Hands to them.
Looking across the sand belt.
They come up in seconds, blasted by hundreds of miles an hour.
Everybody down, hit the set.
What's it doing?
I think you're right.
Those are all others.
It's grass-blade, like in sea, and take a line down in a bed of knives.
Hold the dirt.
Fish on the sand, bro.
200 miles an hour.
There's no sand.
Like a forest.
There's sea.
There's humans with dust.
Going down.
Far, going down.
Wait a few seconds.
All right.
Get up.
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 12.
Two men missing.
Here comes Leo.
Two men, David and Mark.
What happened?
I'm dead, sir.
Wind tore David's jacket.
A fan spider bit him.
Wind carried a swarm of men to the grass.
What about Martin?
Don't know what caused it.
He's dead, all right?
Come on.
Let's take a look.
There he is, sir.
You're in this natural, not blue the way it turns on a fan spider,
killed you.
Let me see.
Good lord.
What's the matter?
The Martians.
Martians, they got him during the same storm.
Must be around somewhere.
Look at his back where I open the jacket.
Hit by a sonic beam.
Right.
Super sound wave gadget of air.
Turn your guts to jelly.
The Martians are here, all right?
Now warn the men.
Right on.
Give me your pocket magnus, speaker.
Quick.
Here you are, sir.
Right.
Leo, crawl in your belly over to the boys.
Keep rolling.
OK.
Let me know when you get there.
Meanwhile, I'll talk of the magnus speaker.
Yes, sir.
Martians will hear me.
So here's some lingua they want to understand.
Now, guess this.
We got company for things.
You figure happy and remember the animal.
Is Leo there yet?
Can't see him.
Wait.
He's coming on the new way, chef.
Talk it.
Snap on your ear, front.
OK, Leo.
No sign of the enemy.
We're fanning out.
We're covered by the red grass.
We passed word shoot first.
Good.
That's an electric rifle.
Enemy sighted.
Tell me, cut one.
There is 200 yards.
President Barack Obama.
Virginia, we are counting on you.
Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress
to raid the next election and wield unchecked power
for two more years.
But you can stop them by voting yes by April 21st.
Help put our elections back on a level playing field
and let voters decide not politicians.
Vote yes by April 21st.
Paid for by Virginians for fair elections.
And Doug, there's nowhere I wouldn't go to help someone
customize and save on car insurance with Liberty Mutual,
even if it means sitting front row at a comedy show.
Hey, everyone, check out this guy and his bird.
What is this your first day?
Oh, no, we help people customize and save on car insurance
with Liberty Mutual together.
We're married.
Need a human, him to a bird.
Yeah, the bird looks out of your leg anyways.
Only pay for what you need at Liberty Mutual.com.
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President Barack Obama.
Virginia, we are counting on you.
Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress
to raid the next election and wield unchecked power
for two more years.
But you can stop them by voting yes by April 21st.
Help put our elections back on a level playing field
and let voters decide not politicians.
Vote yes by April 21st.
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Let's move in, give me everything you say.
Come on, Dad, my video.
I'm trying to crawl through this grass.
How pitiful, pistols.
Our own age group has made contact.
Leo, Leo?
Yes.
Whoever reaches 100 yards through atomic grenade.
Right.
The Martins haven't returned any fire yet.
They're probably waiting to be at closer.
And they'll fan the area with that sonic beam of the ass.
Shed was at 100 yards.
He's throwing the cookies any second.
Plug your ears.
Check.
That should have fling them out.
Oh, we've got to be careful.
We can't go in to see.
We don't have any anti-radiation gear.
No sound from the Martins.
Nothing.
Leo, Leo, any report from you?
Yeah, I think we got it.
Absolutely no sign of life.
Roll south a few hundred yards.
Then east.
Probe their positions.
Right.
Captain, I'm pretty sure it's all clear.
Yeah, probably right.
I just feel conservative right now.
I think I haven't verified the Martins are cleaned out.
This heat is sinking grass.
What a bomb.
At least the moon is dead.
Why would we set us right when we got to the moon?
No, we had to go on.
Now this was taken.
Listen.
The sonic beam.
The Martins are attacking them.
They've had a group of themselves.
They've got the bomb.
They're shattering up loud.
Let's move in there.
We can't help them just find the truth.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
What do you think I know of that?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
What do you think I know of that?
What a tool for us against the Martian patrol.
Try to reach Leo.
Leo, Leo, come in Leo.
Oh, my God.
Here it is, it is open.
You're staying here.
We've got to stay here and try to get out later.
But Leo, Leo's my brother.
My brother.
Well, here's your snack, darling.
I hope you like.
When, Billy, I thought he was in here with you.
He went up to play.
I don't know.
Oh, he's been so looking forward to having his daddy back.
All the kids in the neighborhood are waiting to meet you.
He's been boating about you.
He's been boating about you.
He's been boating about you.
He's been boating about you.
He's been boating about you.
He's been boating about you.
He's been boating about you.
He's been boating about you.
He's been boating about you.
Ever since we got worried that you were coming home.
Yeah, I know.
Michael, is something wrong?
Did you and Billy have a quarrel?
He's...he's a stranger to me, Mary.
A stranger?
You're wrong, darling.
You were just a baby when I left.
I...I can't get used to him.
Oh, but you will.
You can't help loving him.
I can't get to know him until he stops his terrible business
of reminding me all the time.
Reminding me of what I want to forget.
But he's proud of you.
Of what you've done, of what you've done.
You know, I told him what it was really like up there.
You ran out of here crying.
Michael!
Well, what do you want me to do?
Throw out my chest and brag about being a hero?
Pretend that a planet called Mars
had Satan himself with the aid of a few million devils
must have created.
Pretend that Mars is heaven.
It's fighting a war so far away.
It takes months to get there as fun for the kiddies.
I'm...I'm sorry, man.
He just...just leave me alone.
Michael, this isn't like you.
How do you know what I'm like after all these years?
I hardly know myself at this moment.
Five years away from people.
Away even from the one world in the universe
that contains human beings.
But there were other men with you all the time,
hundreds, thousands of them.
What do you mean you were alone?
I don't understand.
Michael, darling, I'm worried about you.
A spaceship.
Half a mile long.
Eleven weeks in flight can find quarters.
The same blank faces of men torn from their planet
catapulted into infinity.
A flight of controlled cosmic dust.
Being alone.
And on Mars, the base dug underground,
living in plastic shells or barracks.
Never being able to move except in patrols.
All of us men in a nightmare.
And being alone in our souls alone.
Give me some coffee.
All right, Michael.
Here you are.
Thanks.
Michael, you're home now.
And you're not alone anymore.
Good coffee.
Tomorrow, tomorrow afternoon and evening, that is.
Yes.
I'm giving a party for you.
At first, I was going to have it a surprise for you.
But I think you should know.
I don't want a party.
We've all families here.
And all your old friends, they want to see you, Michael.
Everyone's so happy you're home.
Call it off.
I don't want to see them.
And you understand?
I don't want to see them.
They're smug hello.
They're glad you're back, Chetta.
They're what's it like in another world?
And how's Mars old man questions?
They wouldn't understand the answers if I could somehow force myself to talk about it.
But it won't be like that.
They love you.
They're happy to ask.
For the last time, no.
Darling, you can't go on like this.
Fighting the Martians and your memories.
And fighting the human beings who love you.
For your sake, Michael, I am not going to call off the party.
Everyone is coming just as I planned.
And you've got to meet them.
And too for yourself, you've got to understand for yourself that you are home again on Earth.
And that you have a life to live once more.
Do you mean that, Mary?
Michael, darling, I do.
Because I love you.
Well, I'm really a stranger in this house.
Not really the head of it.
Still alone.
A barracks filled with chint ker-
Tavana.
Bobby.
All right, Mary.
Have your party.
Without the guests of honor.
Michael.
Michael.
All right, good to get out of the house.
Walk or walk forever.
Sun shining.
Beautiful and peaceful.
Trees.
Tall trees.
Green and yellow leaves.
No red grass.
No red grass anywhere.
The birds.
The wonderful times they make.
Five years.
Never saw and never heard a bird.
The only creatures that ever made a sound of them with a marsh and control is.
Fat, greasy lizards that screamed like tortured souls.
Look at those flowers.
Blue, green, red orange.
Clean, white.
Sweet, glorious mail.
Peaceful.
So peaceful in which to be alone.
A grass.
The grass was short, soft carpet like blades.
A carpet of green.
Cool and gentle.
I just sit on the grass.
Lie on the grass and rest.
Rest and think.
Think.
Think.
I remember when Chad and I got back to command post.
The marsh and sky was dark.
Clouds of ban ever looked like these clouds.
We hadn't spoken to each other for a long while.
How we got away alive from the ambush I'll never know.
And now we were coming to the base.
On the commander.
And at the full report captain.
Yes, commander.
That's right, sir.
The fourth successful ambush by the marshes in as many days.
I'm going to have to do something drastic to stop it.
Air observation doesn't help.
Endless miles of grass and sand.
The marshes are small.
Hide in the stuff.
Take on it's coloring like chameleon.
If it weren't for the sonic beam, those killing sound waves
could probably handle them.
I know, I know.
Can't the Air Science Council work out a fencer?
As they're trying to.
But even if they do, we'll get it up here.
They'll be decimated.
I'm thinking of an old weapon.
That's an outlawed weapon, isn't it, commander?
Outlawed on Earth?
Yes.
They're not fighting on Earth, captain.
Sometimes I wish they'd never invented space ships.
Well, let's not worry about it now.
You may need some rest.
Report to the hospital barracks. Take five days there.
Yes, sir.
Oh, one more thing.
Lieutenant.
The twelve men on the patrol are lost.
One was your brother, am I right?
Yes, sir.
I'm sorry.
Thank you, sir.
I'll get you the barracks and get some rest.
We got a lot to do in five days.
I'd better get on them.
A commander is sorry.
Now get to the barracks.
Don't say it's so hard.
No, why shouldn't I?
It isn't just because Leo is my brother, but...
...because he was someone special.
I feel on this rotten apple called Mars where all people out of touch
were the decent things of our world.
Oh, look, kid.
Every man who lives here lives up here in his own vacuum.
Can't believe what's happened to him.
Finding himself in a place where things are unreal to the human mind
or everyday reality.
But I had something.
I had the one thing that made me a human being up here.
I had...
I had someone who loved me.
No, my love.
And now he's dead.
And I've got no one.
I'd like everyone else up here now.
I've got no one.
Mary?
Mary!
Mary!
Mary!
Mommy isn't here.
Where is she, Billy?
She was crying.
She went next door to the Navy.
Why'd you make my mommy cry?
You're not nice.
I don't like you.
I'm...
I'm sorry, son.
I...
I guess I haven't been very nice at that.
Come here, Billy.
Son, I brought back a lot of bitterness from the other side of the universe.
But a little while ago I thought back to what another man told me on Mars.
And I realized something that I didn't understand at the time.
I'll be all right from now on, Billy.
You and I are going to be real friends, real pals.
Can we... can we play soldiers?
How would you like to play baseball or build model jet planes together or go on a hike in the woods?
See, that'll be swell. I'd like that.
You didn't care what you did with your dad just so you did something with him, huh?
And all you could think of was soldier because that's what I did.
Just proves how right Ted was.
To be together and to love someone.
That's what makes us human beings.
Michael.
Hello, Mary.
Daddy and I are going to play baseball and have a hike in everything.
Oh, Michael.
Michael.
It's all right now, darling.
It's all right.
Your soldiers come home.
Next week, another exciting and unusual story from the world of tomorrow,
and the years beyond 2,000 AD.
Be sure to listen.
2,000 plus is produced by dryer and when all some productions incorporate it.
In today's cast, Bill Griffith, Portrait Mike, Joan Shea was Mary.
Alan Shea was Billy, Charles Metley's head, and Lon Clark was the commander.
The orchestra was conducted by Emerson Buckley, music composed by Elliott Jacobi.
Sound, wall shaver, and Adrian Penner.
Engineering is on the right.
Both are Ken Marvin speaking.
This program came from New York.
President Barack Obama.
Virginia, we are counting on you.
Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to raid the next election
and wield unchecked power for two more years, but you can stop them.
By voting yes, by April 21st.
Help put our elections back on a level playing field and let voters decide not politicians.
Vote yes, by April 21st.
Paid for by Virginians for fair elections.
And Doug.
There's nowhere I wouldn't go to help someone customize and save on car insurance with Liberty Mutual.
Even if it means sitting front row at a comedy show.
Hey everyone, check out this guy and his bird.
What is this your first date?
Oh no, we help people customize and save on car insurance with Liberty Mutual together.
We're married.
Ah!
Me too a human, him to a bird.
Yeah, the bird looks out of your leg anyways.
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