1945-03-28 The Frank Sinatra Show (CBS)

Das "WAVES" -Programm "Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service" sollte den Arbeitskräftemangel bei der Marine lösen und Frauen als neue freiwillige Kräfte gewinnen.

Frank Sinatra: "On Easter morning, if we could stand high on some windswept hill, look out across our country, we would see that nowhere else in the world is the meaning of Easter as wonderful as it is in America. From every church in the land, the wind would bring us the story of ancient Judea, where a young man stood on a hillside grove and preached to the people around him. He said, 'blessed our the meek for they shall inherit the earth.' He told them the poor would see the kingdom of God. He said, ' love thy neighbor as thy self.' And he spoke of peace on earth and goodwill toward men. But the young man was hated, and stoned, and persecuted. It was only because of his willingness to die for his beliefs that he was victorious over his enemies. Now, as we look back over at country, we find the story of that young man retold in the history of America. Because America was founded by people who were oppressed and persecuted; by people who had been denied freedom and tolerance; by people who ask equality not only for the rich, but for the poor; by people who wanted peace on earth. The people of America won those rights and ideals, but not without sacrifice and suffering. Catholics and Jews and Protestants had to shed their blood together at Valley Forge to get freedom of worship. Frenchmen, Spaniards, Irishmen and Poles had to break a wilderness together to get life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. People of all colors; black, white, red, yellow, they had to fight each other at Chancellorsville and Vicksburg before all men were proclaimed equal. America, indeed, was founded by people who were willing to die for their beliefs. In the years that have followed, the faith and the hope and the magic of that first Easter in Judea caused a great parade to surge across our America; a parade of people of all races, colors and creeds; a parade that sweeps up the broad avenues of New York and Chicago, goes through the fishing walls of Cape Cod and Gloucester, through the mining towns of Pennsylvania, across the cotton fields of Charleston and Memphis, over the broad plains of Dallas and Tucson, through the peaceful farm-lands of Iowa and Minnesota, and down the long fertile valleys of Oregon. This then is our Easter Parade: a march of freedom and tolerance and happiness across our America."

Easter Parade
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