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Fred Custer Story

Destination Freedom · 1950 · 29 min · 4,058 words

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Freedom. Listen. It's the Freedom Bell. Hey, the Freedom Bell, my friends. And this is Paul Revere, called back from the shadows by the sound of the Freedom Bells to cry again a warning that the feist of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Destination Freedom is presented by Station WMAQ in the interest of human freedom the world over. Paul reveals the symbol of warning that's ready to ride down the skies to soften the law. His destination is now and forever freedom.

There's lots of things that are implied in our way of life that aren't just spelled out for us. Sometimes we take them for granted. And sometimes we get spool headed and go ahead and do them when everybody else says we're foolish.

But that's the American way. Now you take the right to do the job we happen to think is the job for us. There isn't some commissar to tell us to be something or other because he thinks so, or to say where we got to work.

That's up to each one of us individually. All right, now you take Fred Kuster. Fred was a farm boy in one of our sort of backward areas. Husky last never had much education but a good farmer Hey Mary, what's going on?

See you in a chicken. It's time. Ah, it's time. Matter of fact, it's time. What's matters to us? You're looking to speak of today. Oh, you mean now she's ready? You shouldn't be out of the oven there with the flour?

Well, you sent me back to get him a drink of water. Why don't you take it out to him, Mary? I'll finish up with you. I think so. You take him away. I want you to help him.

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