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We're taking a break from posting new episodes, but I
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Please enjoy this episode, which was originally played on our
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thirteen at Great Detectives Dot Well. Today we have a
special treat for you. Today's episode is fictional, but it
could very well have actually happened that way. The writer
was associated with naval fiction, though definitely from another era.
Speaker 2: However. CS Foster, famous for the Horatio Hornblower series, Broke
the Ship, a realistic novel of Navy combat in World
War Two that was so realistic that it was chosen
as a selection for Words at War. So here now
from July twenty fourth, nineteen forty three is the Ship.
Speaker 3: Words that War presents the ship.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 5: With half a million men in the Royal Navy, it
is inevitable that there should be some coincidence of names
and ranks between characters in this book and officers and
ratings now serving That is so inevitable that the author
has made no attempt to avoid any such coincidence. All
he can do is to assure the reader that he
has attempted neither portraits nor caricature of any living person.
Speaker 4: You'll find that written on one of the front pages
of a book I read a few days ago, The
Ship by Sea US Forrester.
Speaker 3: Words That War.
Speaker 6: The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with the Council on
Books in Wartimes, brings you another in its series of
radio adaptations of.
Speaker 3: Great books of this War. Each week at.
Speaker 6: This time we bring you selected drammatic episode from some
of the most stirring of our war inspired literature. Tonight's
story End the Ship by C. S. Forrester, eminent English
author of Captain Horatio Hornblower and other fine books. Adapted
for radio by Edmund Burnbryer.
Speaker 4: The Ship is a glorious yawn about a glorious British
vessel and the men aboard her. A novel, yet as
you read it, you feel you're reading facts. It's tough,
authentic gripping this yawn. I read it and I was excited.
I hope you.
Speaker 3: Will be too.
Speaker 4: If the convoy didn't get through marta might fall. The
convoy had to get through, and there were only these
five light cruisers and a dozen destroyers to get it through.
The ship HMS Artemis was a light cruiser.
Speaker 7: Most did smoking the starboard vow green won nine. Most
did smoking the starboard bow green won nine.
Speaker 4: Some men would have been uncomfortable in the crow's nest,
not so ordinary seamen Harold Quimsby, whose idea of happiness
was a full belly and nothing particular to do. Thanks
to many hours of practice, Quimsby was able to watch
the whole horizon forward of the beam without allowing any
of his automatic movements to break into his inner thoughts.
He was thinking now of his first sea boys, back
in the almost unbelievably distant days of nineteen thirty nine.
Speaker 3: He'd been up on the crow's nest then, too, he
remembered when.
Speaker 4: His binoculars picked up a dot on the distant surface,
and he'd rung down to the bridge with excitement and
sea sickness.
Speaker 7: Just something over on the lip.
Speaker 8: Where are you speaking from a head?
Speaker 6: Masters?
Speaker 7: I mean the master said, then that's what.
Speaker 8: You say first, so that we know down here, and
you don't say over on the left to you, But
what do you say on the port Bow said, that's right,
but it's better to give a bedding. What does your
bedding indicator?
Speaker 4: Reason twenty one said, how do you say it?
Speaker 1: I've forgotten?
Speaker 8: Said port is red and scarb his green. Remember that
port wine is read, and then you won't forget. And
the twenty one this is clean enough is it? And nursey,
I guess yen, And now let's have your report. Remember
to say where you speaking, drump.
Speaker 7: And the Marstead sir Architect's side read two one.
Speaker 8: Pretty good, Crimsby, that you must say it twice over
you remember being too vet the guns are padding. We
might not hear you the first time.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, I mean now, I I said. He'd been
a very green hand at that time, This ordinary seamen
Harold Quisby. He felt uncomfortable all over again as he
remembered it.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: He looked attentively at the horizon, clinked, and looked again,
with his hand on the buzzer of the voice cube.
Speaker 7: Allbred Marstead smoking the starboard bow green one nine. Marstad
smoking the starboard bow green one nine.
Speaker 4: Most of the brains of the HMS artemists were now
on the bridge captain and torpedo officer, navigating lieutenant, an officer.
Speaker 3: Of the Watch, and chief yeoman.
Speaker 4: They stood there, unprotected even from the weather, nothing over
their heads and less than shoulder high around them, only
the thin plating to keep off the seas. When the
ship was taking green water over her bows. Death could
strike anywhere on that bridge, But then death could strike
anywhere in the whole ship, for the plating of which
he was constructed was hardly.
Speaker 3: Thicker than paper.
Speaker 4: Even a machine gun bullet could penetrate it if it
struck square. The ship was an eggshell armed with sledgehammers.
Mask he had reported, smoke green one ninzer.
Speaker 3: Very good, Give yoman, signal that to the flagship, the.
Speaker 4: Captain replying to his secretary Paymaster, Sub Lieutenant James Jerningham,
and giving the order to his chief Yeoman.
Speaker 3: So that's that, just three.
Speaker 4: Words spoken quietly to himself by Captain the Honorable Miles
Ernest Thawton Harrington Ure, a man of far fewer words
than name. However, the economy of a speech belied the
torrent of thought that went roaring to his brilliant mind
at the first report.
Speaker 3: The Italian fleet is out in full force.
Speaker 6: Difficult to tell how many seaworthy battleships they have out
to Toronto and Natavan. Well know now see them with
our own eyes, see them all, because Italians never venture
out except in fulliest possible force.
Speaker 3: So that's that.
Speaker 4: He twisted on his stool and looked round him over
the bulging sea. There on the port quarter wallowed the convoys,
the fat, helpless merchant ships that carried within them the
salvation of morton, food, new inner tubing, parantiaircraft guns, shells,
heavy guns, mountings and ammunition.
Speaker 3: The convoy had to get.
Speaker 4: Through, and if it were reckless to risk it for
such a frail as caught, then recklessness must be given.
Speaker 6: You can see the smoke now, sir.
Speaker 5: The flagship signal.
Speaker 6: Sir letter k acknowledge the flagship signal gidioman.
Speaker 4: The signal from flagship to port specified that Scheme K
would be carried out under the circumstances with moderate window
bass and the enemy to leeward. The captain had foreseen
these tactics were already open. On his knee were the
typerit noorders, which laid down what each ship should do
under Scheme K.
Speaker 6: Signals down sir for ten do you want no revolutions
or d you want no revolutions?
Speaker 4: The convoy was executing a wheel to port under full helm.
The cruisers were turning more gently and increasing speed, and
the destroyers in the advanced screen were doubling around. It
was a beautiful geometrical movement.
Speaker 3: Stead eh medchips midship.
Speaker 4: Then another signal ran to the mass out of the flagship.
It pludded, waiting for acknowledgment, and then went down.
Speaker 3: Darb A ten midchips harve ten mitchi or bridge ten
tide chaps in hide up.
Speaker 4: I'm getting more complete details from Quimsby. Aloft Paymaster Sub
Lieutenant James Jerningham turned to yell the message.
Speaker 3: To the captain.
Speaker 9: Six big ships, six destroyers.
Speaker 6: Two leading ships look like battleships, mighty heavy cruisers.
Speaker 4: Others are light cruisers. The captain figured quickly in his
mind that if Quimsby could see them now, the enemy
ships would be in sight from the bridge in about
four minutes.
Speaker 3: The voice of the range taker began its chance.
Speaker 7: Rhinds two or a rhinds two l five rhymes two double.
Speaker 4: In exactly four minutes, the enemy shot up suddenly over
the curve of the world, climbing over it with astonishing speed.
Speaker 10: For fifteen revolution for twenty seven knots.
Speaker 11: Or revolutions for twenty seven knots.
Speaker 3: Visibility was at its best.
Speaker 4: The enemy ships made hard, sharp silhouettes against the blue
and gray background. Pay Master, the sub Lieutenant James Jerningham
knew himself to be a coward, but sometime ago he
made up his mind to be a coward.
Speaker 3: Lacking and nothing.
Speaker 4: He spent hours in his cabin carefully studying the pictured
profiles of hostile ships.
Speaker 3: Study carried out in a mood.
Speaker 4: Of desperation, of despair, and he had a photographic memory
which enabled him to recall the very pages on which
he had seen those profiles, even the very print beneath them.
Speaker 12: The two leading ships are heavy cruisers Bozano sir. Nine
thousand tons, eight eight inch guns, thirty two knocks just
sure on the Nosa, and the last three cruisers look
like bandonai is. I don't know about the first one, though, Sir.
She's like nothing we've been told about. I suppose she's
the new one Codonna, and the intelligence people didn't get
her a prosia, right.
Speaker 4: I expect to write, I think I am sir. Out
of five hundred who started as naval cadet, only one
man ever reached the lofty rank of a Captain r N,
only a few.
Speaker 3: Grades lower than God.
Speaker 4: That's the thought Journingham had at that particular moment. It
was followed by another that saved him from some of
his bitter feeling of inferiority.
Speaker 3: He Journingham could spot shifts better than his captain.
Speaker 4: It did not mean he respected the captain left admired
him less. He would have admired him even more if
he could have read the captain's cool, unflurried mind.
Speaker 6: Out there six of the best. The Italians have the
vice admirals flag on the lead. There a Gentini, perhaps Abougette.
If they gate inches nearly on range, is now probably
open fired any moment our sixes couldn't put a share
within three thousand yards of them. Now they know their
superior strength, undoubted they've been informed about it from the air.
Possibly that's a screen out there for a stronger force,
more heavy users perhaps, and death of ships. Why should
they wait for reinforcements two heavy cruisers and four light
against our five light bruises. If they know that business,
they've turned to port close with us and finish us off.
If we knew ours, we would run like hares. That
the convoy go, that.
Speaker 3: Malta go.
Speaker 4: Later.
Speaker 6: The captain's report read at one three one oho hours
the enemy opened fire.
Speaker 3: It might be worth someone's wild it.
Speaker 4: Phio analyzed why the column of water thrown up by
an eight inch shell should be so beautiful. It possesses
a faint yellow tinge, meaning it's of the high explosive type,
and it's really a charming sight against sky and sea.
They're beautiful to watch as long as they miss. And
these powerful, all destructive eight inches were all distinct misses,
showing us a gunnery control instruments in the Italian ship
were not lined up as accurately as they should be. Now,
the British flagship was leading round to the enemy. That
was the way to deal with them. If they won't
come out and fight, go in and fight them.
Speaker 7: Nine one seven to below rine one seven do below.
Speaker 4: It was leading seamen Alfred Lightfoot's job to take ranges quickly.
That was his personal contribution to the perfect fighting.
Speaker 3: Hole which was the ship. And he did what he
was supposed to do without distraction. Niney.
Speaker 11: If the shell's got me nine money, I'll get it
in from no weather shell.
Speaker 4: Twenty one seconds ago, he's seen the flashes of the
guns at which he was pointing his range behinder, and
already Alfred Lightfoot had forgotten them. During those twenty one seconds,
those eight in shells had been hurtling towards the HMS Artemis,
hurtling through the air at the speed of more than
a mile in two seconds. Their path was curved, reaching
far up into the upper atmosphere, higher than the highest
out into the freezing stratosphere, before plunging down would toward
their target. Suddenly, Alfred Lightwood heard a noise as of
rushing water and of tearing sheets, and then the field
of his rangefinder was plotted out, and then a mess
upheaval of water. Is the nearest shell of the broad
Tide pitched close beside the star with a bow of
the art Twenty tons of yellowed water came tumbling on.
Speaker 3: Board, saluting the upward.
Speaker 4: Words were flooding over light Foot. Strange mind nine Hoopstuart
all hop time instantly training and professional pride masters, and
he definitely twirled the scows and brought.
Speaker 3: The enemy into focus once again nine one nine tallllo.
Speaker 4: It was then the paymaster's sub Lieutenant James Jerningham, saw
the Italian chap turn away, and he gravely noted the
time upon the pad in his lap. Later, the captain's
report read.
Speaker 3: The enemy withdrew. Wasn't a surprise for you?
Speaker 7: They're running away like that?
Speaker 3: No, sir, not very much.
Speaker 6: It made us be a trick to get us away
from the convoy. They're that pains would have a chance,
but I don't think so, no, sir. Something bigger than
cruisers out today are fans. They might be trying to
lead us into a chap.
Speaker 3: Stop it.
Speaker 6: We're staying between the eye Ties and the convoy, and
every minute brings us nearer to Malta.
Speaker 4: Joining him at that point said yes, sir. He was
frantically searching about in his mind for some contribution to
make to this conversation other than yes or a no, sir.
Speaker 3: Wanting to appear bright, he said, night is coming.
Speaker 6: Yes, the eye eyes are losing time, the most valuable
asset they have and is squandering at the commonist mistake
to make in war is to think that because a
certain course seems to you to be the best for
the enemy. That is the course he will take. He
may not think it best, or there may be some
reason against it which you don't know about.
Speaker 3: That's trucer. This was the longest beach ever heard from
the captain.
Speaker 6: And the next Communist mistake is to give unnecessary orders.
Speaker 3: Whipple up there, ordinary seamen.
Speaker 4: Whipple was now climbing the difficult ladder to the crow's
nest to relieve Quemsby.
Speaker 6: Whipple up there, will keep a sharp lookout without my
telling him.
Speaker 3: He knows what he's there for.
Speaker 4: Jerningham gates at him wordless. Now, in spite of his
efforts to appear bright. This was an aspect of the
captain's character which he'd never seen before, this courteous gentleman
with a smiling common sense and his insight into character.
When Whipple took over from Quemsby a lost and that.
Speaker 8: Thing in the front of the line is the flagship.
Speaker 7: Give my regard to the admiral when you get your commissioner,
no on, take your race.
Speaker 4: Five minutes later, there was no kidding around Corrich.
Speaker 11: Mastd more smoke visible on the port bow beyond the
enemy cruisers Red three eight masted, more smoke visible mastead
and a lot of new smoke is closing us.
Speaker 6: Signed Baron No.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 11: Red three nine mastad battleship in sight two battleships in
a never cruiser hitting a little abaft about Baron as
the other ship to turning. Now his turn of them.
Speaker 6: The behavior of the ship's company was most satisfactory.
Speaker 4: Another phase of the captain's report. Not one man in
ten an automist could see what was going on. In
the captain's opinion, the sordid news was dangerous.
Speaker 3: Go down to tell the ship about the situation.
Speaker 4: Journingham's mind was feverishly turning over words and phrases as
he just handed the ladder. He didn't have time to
assemble any But on the other hand, he didn't have
time in those few seconds to become self conscious, nor
had his weakness time to reassert itself. I've a message
for the ship from the captain.
Speaker 3: The petty officer.
Speaker 4: Beside the loud speaker hanging on the vault get switched
on and piped brillly. Sound of its call audible in
every part.
Speaker 3: Of the ship.
Speaker 9: The captain has sid me to tell you that we've
got the entire Kai navy imposibles that will hit hitty
cruisers at all.
Speaker 3: They've run away from us.
Speaker 9: Once the hitty cruiser is half Now we're going to
see if the battleship to run two three hours of
daylight there and the convoys stop to reach Morta po.
Speaker 7: Ducks with all the donelight the revolution, but anyone nuts
make smoke.
Speaker 4: Three minutes of smoke mean a smoke bank a mile
and a half long, far too wide for the anim
to watch with care all along its length.
Speaker 3: Later the captain's report.
Speaker 6: I found the smoke screen to be extremely effective.
Speaker 4: The smoke bank, allowing for spread, would be a quarter
of a mile thick. The captain had solved the complex
mathematical problem in his head.
Speaker 3: He turned to the voice cube beside him.
Speaker 6: Captain, Gunnery Officer, Gunnery officer, I'm turning to starboard now.
It will take us two minutes and ten seconds approximately
to go through the smoke. You'll find the eye ties
about red fire when we come out, but I shall
turn to port parallel to that course. Immediately open fire
when you are ready? All right, yes, sir, good by
guns then.
Speaker 3: Eight point to starvad Quartermaster done of it if he.
Speaker 4: Chip stop begging smoke, and the order went down through
five decks to stalk a petty officer Harmsworth in the
boiler room. Now the atomist was heading squarely into the smoke,
solidly away to starboard. One moment they were out in
that clear sunshine, and the next they were in wreeking,
oily darkness. Call the master didn't see that about it
in the smoke.
Speaker 6: I did reports.
Speaker 11: He's in the smoke and gone see anything.
Speaker 3: Shut fifty second.
Speaker 13: Fifty five seconds, one minute, fifty five seconds, ninety second,
one oh five seconds not long ago now, and the
smoke was just as thick as ever, extremely good two minutes.
Speaker 4: The Captain could see the navigating lieutenant plainly now, and
the Italians could just about see the shadowy gray form
of the.
Speaker 3: Automist emerging from the smoke.
Speaker 4: Four fifteen, an artemist, beautiful in the sunshine, swung round
a turner broadside upon.
Speaker 3: The colossal force. Long before the automist emerged, however, the.
Speaker 4: Gunnery lieutenant had given order all guns look.
Speaker 3: This took only fifteen seconds to accomplish.
Speaker 4: Therefore, when Broadsides was affected and the last gun ready
lamp came on. It needed only one word to throw
a quarter of a ton of steel and high explosive
from one ship moving at thirty one knots to another
ship moving at twenty knots nine miles away.
Speaker 6: Oh ho ho ha.
Speaker 4: Later the captain's report read hits what observed Ha.
Speaker 6: Ha ha.
Speaker 4: Twelve shells were in the air at once, while the
fountains raised by the sixth preceding ones still hung poised
above the surface. Every ten seconds the guns were ready
and loaded, and every ten seconds the shells were hurled
out of them four hits. The six broadsides was good shooting,
and the Italian Navy was firing back straight at Artemis.
Now there were bright flashes all down the line, and
sea and air were flung into convulsion.
Speaker 3: On the bridge. The sudden crash of the guns made
turning him jump it all. He hoped none of the
men on Beauty up here had seen him jump. The
second time he was sure his feet had left the deck.
Speaker 4: The gin was appalling, and with every broad side he
was shaken by the hot flash of the guns. The
captain gave an order to the navigating lieutenant, and soon
hims Artem is healed and turned abruptly away from the
enemy and back into the comforting smoke and darkness and silence.
Speaker 6: Captain got it there, hurry up, which should be opening
fired again in two minutes. An Artemis was already stealing
over on the turn as she punched back into the
seakouder enemies once more one minute. Every man of the
ship knew that the better he did his work and now,
the better would be his chance of life.
Speaker 10: Being ten minutes oh say o ha, and.
Speaker 4: The above part brought its tons of steel again toward
the eye tide part of this shooting superbric The captain
could see that with his own eyes as he turned
his binoculars upon the Italian flagship, the enemy Salvos were
creeping closer to him.
Speaker 3: He was nearly time to retire again.
Speaker 4: A mile away, another British ship, HMS Hero, had emerged
from the smoke screen, spitting fire from all our turn.
Speaker 3: With hera out of.
Speaker 4: The screen and the other cruises beginning to show beyond her,
it was for Automist to withdraw and leave the Italians
to their weary task of getting the range on these
new elucid targets FOURT ten and artemists plunged back into
the protecting spot.
Speaker 3: Then it happened.
Speaker 4: Fifty salvos if inspired at automist without scoring a hit.
Now when she was invisible in a smoky park, a
chance shell hitter.
Speaker 3: It was an eight in shell that hit the cruiser.
It struck the ship's side a yard.
Speaker 4: Above the waterline, and it penetrated the main deck as
at first, flinging red hot fragments of steel all around it.
Speaker 3: And with the fragments came.
Speaker 4: The flame of explosion. The ex gun turret bore the front.
The officer at the shell ring and the officer at
the ammunition poise killed by the jagged shield. One minute
they were alive and the next they were dead.
Speaker 3: One moment they were.
Speaker 4: Men, and then the shell burst right in their midst
and they were nothing nothing. The petty officer in charge
of the lobby and the others survived them only by
a few seconds. They died by fire, but it was
a quick death.
Speaker 12: Ships on fire after yes, pretty badly, apparently.
Speaker 4: Sir, very good, Jenny, Mum, oh, thank you, one turret
without but the A and D turts were firing away beautifully,
all four guns in white hot action at that moment,
a shell was fired from HMS Artemis, which changed the
face of the war, altered the whole history of the world.
Men and women in Nigeria or Czechoslovakia would feel the
impact of that shell upon their lives. Head hunting cannibals
in Papua, Iberian nomad seeking a scant living on the
frozen tundra of Asia, toddling babies in the cornfields of Iowa,
and their children's children, all in years to come.
Speaker 3: Oh something to that shell.
Speaker 4: Of the four shells fired in that salvo, three of
them missed.
Speaker 3: The four the.
Speaker 4: Shell from the left hand gun and turret a hit.
Speaker 6: Later, the captain's report read, the enemy turned away and
the action terminated.
Speaker 4: That shell hadn't done any particular damage when it hit
the Italian Majesty's battleship Lignano. But the duo Italian German
command of Sane Capitan surce Helmost von Bordica and Vice admiraljo.
Speaker 3: Gaspara Gezzano nor Centini were.
Speaker 4: Hesitating about what to do with a pesty little British ships.
And they were arguing politely, of course, on points of strategy.
Also they were suspicious of one another and well, you
know how it is with the Italians and the Germans.
The main thing is that when that historical sixteen shells
rucked full upon their beat turret and burst against the
twelve inch steel, it became the deciding factor that tipped
down the scale and swayed the balance of von Borica's
and Nocentini's hesitating mind.
Speaker 6: The enemy turned away and the action terminated.
Speaker 4: The enemies out of rain, sir, thank you guns.
Speaker 12: I believe I saw a torpedo hit on the second
ship while you were speaking, sir.
Speaker 6: Thank you, congratulations, thank you.
Speaker 4: Jurninggum, there was only the faintest glow to be seen
of the fire that had raged minutes before, and a
few more minutes with the hose would extinguish even that.
The ship emerged into the fading dust, for it was
now beginning to grow dark. Then the captain suddenly tensed
himself as his roving eye caught sight of a twinkle
of light ahead. And then he was able to relax
and even smile a little to himself in the twilight,
for that was the evening star shining out over the Mediterranean.
Speaker 6: Man's darkenship. Second degree of readiness, Yes, the captain could
now line his pipe, could now.
Speaker 4: Inwardly only perhaps relax. He could now afford to indulge
in the luxury of quiet thought.
Speaker 6: This long struggle will someday have an end, I suppose,
but not now, and not for months and years to come.
And even when it does end, the freedom which the
struggle will win can only be secured by eternal vigilance,
eternal probity, eternal good will, and eternal honesty of purpose.
That will be the hardest lesson of all. Peace will
be a severer test of mankind than war. Perhaps mankind
will pass that test when the time comes. As for me,
when that time comes, I will fight for the last die,
in the last ditch, before I will come fromise, in
the slightest with the blind or secret enemies of freedom
and justice. You have heard the seventh program of Words
at War, a series based on the great books of
this war. This evening we presented The Ship by C. S. Forrest.
Speaker 3: The script was.
Speaker 6: Written by Edmund Burnbryer of the NBC Script Staff. Next
week you'll hear Robert Saint John's book From the Land
of Silent People. The narrator tonight was played by Alan
bunts House. Jamison was the captain. Other members of the
cast were Victor b. Croft, Sid Cassell, Humphrey Davis, Ian McAllister,
Shirley Oliver, and Alfred Shirley. The original music was written
and conducted by Frank Black.
Speaker 3: The production was under the direction of Joseph Lawsy.
Speaker 6: This program has been presented in cooperation with the Council
on Books in Wartime for the National Broadcasting Company and
the independent radio stations associated with.
Speaker 3: The NBC Network. This program came to you from New York.
Speaker 6: This is a National Broadcasting Company.
Speaker 2: Welcome back. Well a very well told story, and those
who have listened to, for example, or read Horatio Homeblower,
we'll see a lot of parallels in some ways with
the characterization. I guess that's the one advantage of the
novel being able to get into different characters' heads. In
terms of the adaptation, well, we didn't have one listener
comment I wanted to share. This came from C. Peterson
who says, these episodes and this was regarding that this
is war series and Behind the Gun give a very
interested and sanitized view of war. Being a veteran war myself,
I know how ugly it is thank you for putting
these glimpses into my father's war out there. Well, I'm
glad to help him to provide that information. Of course,
there's always going to be some limit in terms of
particularly when you're dealing with information that's broadcast over the airwaves.
But I think Man behind the Gun and certainly the
USS Boise episodes were very powerful, I thought, but there's
not a way to fully capture all of the ugliness
and of war within the limits of broadcasting essentially what's
required to be a family program. But I do appreciate
your comment, Thanks so much, and thank you for your service.
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