Family Theater: A Different Drummer
Family Theater · February 17, 1954 · 28 min · 4,200 words
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Family Theater presents Jeanette McDonald and Robert Stack. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater presents a different drummer starring Robert Stack and here is your host is Jeanette McDonald. Thank you Tony LaFrano. Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives if we are to
in peace for ourselves, peace for our families, and peace for the world. Family theatre urges you to pray, pray together as a family. And now to our transcribed drama, A Different Drummer, starring Robert Stack as the Corporal. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he appears a different drummer.
An up-too-distant future, 1964. My home, a small city in the Caucasus. That's right, 1964. I've had 10 years to think over what I did. 10 years since I decided to lead Korean and American uniform and disappear behind the Iron Curtain, you probably wonder as a lot of Americans did what made us do it.
Why do we stay behind when the other PWs went home? Why do we become traitors? It's not easy to answer, and I can only speak for myself. But maybe if I tell you how it happened to me, you'll understand.
I remember it was December 1951, about a month after I'd been captured. When word got around the stock cave, that some of us were going to be transferred to another PW. You can't farther north near the Yalu River.
I wonder what's the deal, Mike. Beats me? Maybe they figure somebody's getting set to bust out of here. Didn't you know? Somebody is. Don't kidding. There are two of the guys in the next touch.
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