- Herbert Marshall: Hello Canada. What you're about to see is an imaginative glimpse into the future - a Hollywood view of the year 1960.
- Cary Grant: Ladies and gentlemen, I'm here with you to read to you a letter which I wish it had never been necessary to write. It was written by a Canadian soldier, and was found in his kit after his death. I want you to hear it. "My dear son, The doctors tell me that I'm going to die soon. It's hard to believe it because I'm in no pain and it seems absurd that a man who has so much to live for should die so easily. I can't leave you much what's known as real property to worry about, but I can leave you truth, honour and tolerance - those precious things that were jeopardised by the forces we're fighting."
- Herbert Marshall: One thing I do know - most of us are doing too much thinking about 'after the war'. Too many of us are thinking and talking and acting as though it was all over, right now, or just a matter of days or weeks at most. Right now, this minute, our finest young men are fighting for our peaceful homes. The security of our children. The right to live and think as we please. Certainly they're fighting for a shining future, but they're doing their fighting today. And those boys, they're not saying, "I don't think I can make it this time. I did my part in yesterday's battle. Maybe I'll feel more like fighting tomorrow, or next month." No, they're giving all they've got - right now. So it looks as though we're being asked to do awfully little - to put our money where it can make more money for us. Well, I don't know what I can say beyond that, except to ask every one of you to remember when your Victory Loans salesman calls on you to buy more bonds than ever before.
- Cary Grant: This soldier-father couldn't afford to die. This boy couldn't afford to lose his Dad. Can you say you can't afford to buy Victory Bonds?
- Mrs. Ames: Do you remember how funny he used to be?
- Mr. Ames: Carson? Hmmm. I remember a little fella around that time called Charlie Ruggles - he was really funny.
- Mrs. Ames: I don't remember him.
- Danny Ames: Must've been before my time too.
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