:05:02
I won't live that long.
:05:06
What did you think
of Mr. Parker being at the station?
:05:09
Say, Clint. Speaking of Mr. Parker,
will you do something for me?
:05:14
Sure. What is it?
:05:15
Well, will you talk to him for me
and tell him I'm not going to take that job?
:05:20
And why should I tell him that?
:05:23
It's kind of hard to explain.
:05:26
But you see, the Army changes a fellow.
:05:30
It kind of makes you think different.
:05:33
I don't want to spend the rest of my life...
:05:35
answering a factory whistle,
instead of a bugle call...
:05:38
or be cooped up
in a shipping room all day.
:05:41
I want to do something worthwhile.
:05:42
Jim, how can you talk like that?
:05:44
He's tired, Mother. Excited.
:05:47
You don't know what you are saying.
:05:49
But tomorrow morning,
after a good night's sleep...
:05:53
you'll be ready to take up
where you left off at the factory.
:05:56
A soldier of peace
instead of a soldier of war.
:05:59
I don't want to be a soldier of anything.
:06:05
You see, Mom...
:06:08
I want to get out.
:06:09
Away from routine.
I've had enough of that in the Army.
:06:12
You found another job?
:06:15
Not exactly, Mom...
:06:17
but you see, I've been doing
engineering work in the Army...
:06:21
and that's the kind of work
I want to do now.
:06:23
A man's job.
:06:25
Where you can accomplish things.
:06:27
Where you can build, construct, create.
Do things!
:06:31
That sounds very nice.
:06:33
But after all...
:06:35
a job in the hand is worth two in the bush.
:06:37
I don't want to tell you what to do, Jim...
:06:41
but when you were in the war...
:06:43
every time I passed the factory...
:06:46
I was wishing for the day
my boy would be working there again.