Memories of Jerry

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Guest (Male): Oh man, there's a story here. I want to hear it.
Guest (Male 2): I thought I'd come up and commune with nature.
Guest (Female): Yeah.
Guest (Male 2): In what planet?
Guest (Male 3): You can't do this, Plato. It's against the law.
Guest (Male 2): So is killing.
Guest (Female): Jerry! Jerry!
Guest (Female): Now, let's see. Where did we put that book?
Guest (Male): Whoa!
Guest (Female): Jason!
Guest (Male): Connie!
Guest (Female): You scared me.
Guest (Male): I scared you. You scared me.
Guest (Female): Oh.
Guest (Male): Are you all right?
Guest (Female): Yeah. I Oh, why didn't you tell me you were in the computer room?
Guest (Male): Oh, well, I'm sorry. I didn't know you were out here. I guess I ought to put up a light or something.
Guest (Female): No, I just forgot this bookcase slides back and forth.
Guest (Male): It does hide the entrance, that's for sure.
Guest (Female): Look at this mess.
Guest (Male): I'm sorry. Here, let me help you with those. Were you looking for a particular book?
Guest (Female): Yeah, I was looking for Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.
Guest (Male): Oh, let me see. Here you go.
Guest (Female): Thanks.
Guest (Male): It must have been stuffed in the back somewhere. Huh?
Guest (Female): What's the matter?
Guest (Male): Well, this book.
Guest (Female): The Terminus Factor by Seth Kreyer?
Guest (Male): Yeah, it was a popular novel in the early seventies, but I wonder why Dad would keep a copy of it.
Guest (Female): Why wouldn't he?
Guest (Male): Because he always told me he hated this book.
Guest (Female): Really?
Guest (Male): Yeah.
Guest (Female): That is weird.
Guest (Male): Hey wait, something fell out.
Guest (Female): A postcard. Look, it's addressed to you.
Guest (Male): Me? Let me see that. Oh my.
Guest (Female): What's wrong?
Guest (Male): Well, the postcard's from Jerry, my older brother.
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Guest (Female): That's a postcard to you from Jerry?
Guest (Male): Yeah, from Vietnam.
Guest (Female): And this is the first time you've seen it?
Guest (Male): Yes.
Guest (Female): Hey, are you all right?
Guest (Male): Huh? Oh, yeah, I was just remembering. I wonder why Dad never gave me this.
Guest (Female): Well, maybe he thought it would be too painful for you. I mean, with Jerry dying and all.
Guest (Male): Yeah, it probably would have been. I still would have liked to have had it though.
Guest (Male): What?
Guest (Female): What's so funny?
Guest (Male): Just something Jerry wrote here. He says, "How's track, Judge?"
Guest (Female): Judge?
Guest (Male): Yeah, it was a nickname he gave me. Jason the Judge, he used to call me. He said it was because I didn't laugh until I was about two years old.
Guest (Female): Is that true?
Guest (Male): Yeah. I didn't find things all that funny, I guess. According to my folks, Jerry was the first one to make me laugh. He could always make me laugh.
Guest (Female): Well, what else did he write?
Guest (Male): Oh, "How's track, Judge. Hope you aren't giving Fosbury a bad name."
Guest (Female): Who's Fosbury?
Guest (Male): He was the inventor of the Fosbury Flop. It's a high jump technique. You see, Jerry was a track and field star in school and he used to coach me.
Guest (Female): Oh. Well, what does this mean here? "Never forget, little brother, Plato was wrong."
Guest (Male): Plato, there's a name from the past.
Guest (Female): Yeah, the distant past.
Guest (Male): No, no, no, not Plato the Greek philosopher. You see, Plato was the nickname of Leonard Plateman. He was a friend of Jerry's. Oh, man, oh man. Where has the time gone? All these memories, like it happened yesterday.
Guest (Female): All right, go ahead.
Guest (Male): Go ahead what?
Guest (Female): Remember, I know you Whitzers. There's a story here. I want to hear it. Tell me about you and Jerry and Plato and the Fosbury Flop.
Guest (Male): Well, when I got to junior high, I wanted to follow in Jerry's footsteps, you know, be a big track star. But while he broke school records, all I managed to break was the high jump bar.
Guest (Male): Oh man, not again.
Guest (Male 4): No, no, Whitaker, Whitaker. How many times do I have to tell you? You jump over the bar, not on top of the bar.
Guest (Male): Sorry, Coach.
Guest (Male 4): Sorry, sorry, sorry doesn't fix my bar, Jason. Look at this thing. It's supposed to be a straight bar, but you've turned it into a giant V bar. It was a brand new bar, Jason.
Guest (Male): I'll replace it. I'll buy you a new one.
Guest (Male 4): Oh, forget it, forget it. Look, Jason, I hate to do this. I really do, but I'm just afraid it's not working out. I'm going to have to cut you from the team.
Guest (Male): Oh, don't do that, Coach. Please.
Guest (Male 4): Well, listen, I'm sorry, Jason. I know you've been working real hard and everything.
Guest (Male): Really hard. I'll work even harder.
Guest (Male 4): I know you will, but you know hard work isn't enough, Jason. You have to have talent. And you're giving Fosbury a bad name. If you had just inherited even a little bit of your brother's ability, it might be different. But you didn't, and it isn't. So you're out, Jason. I'm sorry.
Guest (Male): It's okay. I understand.
Guest (Male 3): Well, I don't.
Guest (Male): Jerry.
Guest (Male 3): Hey, Judge. Coach, you got to give him another chance.
Guest (Male 4): Jerry, why bother?
Guest (Male 3): Because I think he can make it over this time, that's why.
Guest (Male): Jerry, maybe I shouldn't.
Guest (Male 3): Sure you should. Come on, Coach, what have you got to lose?
Guest (Male 4): Well, another high jump bar for one thing.
Guest (Male 3): Well, then do it for me, all right? For all those those meets I helped win.
Guest (Male 4): All right, all right, I'll I'll set up the bar, but just one more chance, Jason, got it? Now, go get in position.
Guest (Male): I don't know about this, Jerry.
Guest (Male 3): Why not? You can do it.
Guest (Male): I haven't been able to so far.
Guest (Male 3): All you need is a little more lift in your takeoff leg. And when you're up in the air, arch your back more. Then after you got your bottom over the bar, kick up your legs.
Guest (Male): I thought that's what I was doing.
Guest (Male 3): Then this should be a piece of cake.
Guest (Male): Jerry, I don't, I don't know about this.
Guest (Male 3): Listen to me, Judge, I believe in you. You understand? I believe in you. You just need to believe in yourself.
Guest (Male): What if I let you down?
Guest (Male 3): You won't, no way.
Guest (Male 4): Hey, hey, fellas, I ain't got all day here.
Guest (Male 3): Okay, Coach. Do it.
Guest (Male): All right, I'm doing it.
Guest (Male): I took three slow, deep breaths, and then shot off toward the pit, huffing and puffing with the strain.
Guest (Male 3): That's it! Go! Go!
Guest (Male): Then, as I got to the bar, I jumped as high and as hard as I could.
Guest (Male): And knocked the bar right off the pedestals. Oh, man.
Guest (Male 4): Hey, you okay, Jason?
Guest (Male): Yes, sir.
Guest (Male 4): All right. Well, if you boys will excuse me, I have other things to do. Jerry, don't be a stranger.
Guest (Male 3): All right, Coach.
Guest (Male): See, Jerry, I knew I shouldn't have done it.
Guest (Male 3): What are you talking about? You did great. Your form was almost perfect.
Guest (Male): But I missed.
Guest (Male 3): So?
Guest (Male): So, I made a fool out of myself.
Guest (Male 3): Judge, you broke the bar on your last jump. You think going from breaking the bar to having almost perfect form is making a fool out of yourself?
Guest (Male): Well, no, I guess it isn't.
Guest (Male 3): Of course not. Come on. Let's go get a soda. I have to drop off some papers at the university. The student union has a great ice cream shop.
Guest (Male): Okay.
Guest (Male 3): Race you to the car. On your mark, get set, stop.
Guest (Male): Huh?
Guest (Male 3): Just kidding. I meant go.
Guest (Male): Hey, no fair!
Guest (Male 3): So we went over to the student union building, had some sodas, and talked about high jumping and all sorts of things. And that's when he sprang the surprise on me.
Guest (Male): Surprise?
Guest (Female): What surprise?
Guest (Male 3): How would you feel about going up to the cabin for the weekend?
Guest (Male): The cabin on Lake Michigan?
Guest (Male 3): You know of another one?
Guest (Male): All right! Who else is coming?
Guest (Male 3): Nobody. It'll just be you and me. We'll go boating, swimming, hiking. We'll even work on your high jump.
Guest (Male): Please, I want to have fun. Can we go across the lake into Canada?
Guest (Male 3): Absolutely. We can do a little hiking there too. Oh, and we need to collect some bark specimens for Dad.
Guest (Male): Bark specimens?
Guest (Male 3): Well, he's doing some research for Universal Encyclopedia.
Guest (Male): He sure knows how to have a good time, doesn't he?
Guest (Male 3): Hey, hey, I almost forgot. Camping on the shore.
Guest (Male): Um.
Guest (Male 3): What's the matter?
Guest (Male): Nothing. It's just that I don't see why we should go camping when we've got the cabin. I mean, it's almost like camping as it is.
Guest (Male 3): But it's not camping. Besides, it's good practice for me. I'll probably be doing a lot of it in Vietnam.
Guest (Male): Yeah, Vietnam.
Guest (Male 3): Whoops, that sure killed the mood.
Guest (Male): Don't say killed.
Guest (Male 3): It's just an expression, Judge.
Guest (Male): I don't care. I don't like it. You know I don't want you to go.
Guest (Male 3): Okay, okay, I'm sorry. Let's just drop it. We'll go up to the cabin, we'll have the time of our lives. No Vietnam, no war.
Guest (Male): And no high jump.
Guest (Male 3): Right. Just you and me and all the marshmallows we can get sick on.
Guest (Male): Hey, Jerry! Hey, Jerry!
Guest (Male 3): Hey, Plato.
Guest (Male): That's Plato? What happened to him?
Guest (Male 3): Well, he sort of turned into a flower child since you last saw him. Long hair and beads. That's the latest rage.
Guest (Male): Yeah, and what planet?
Guest (Male 2): Hey Jerry, man, we got a rap.
Guest (Male 3): Plato, you remember my little brother?
Guest (Male 2): Yeah, the Judge. Peace, your honor.
Guest (Male): Likewise, I'm sure.
Guest (Male 3): What's up, Plato?
Guest (Male 2): I just got a bad scoop about you, man. Is it true you're actually thinking of volunteering to go to Nam?
Guest (Male 3): I'm not just thinking about it, Plato, I'm doing it. I'm handing in the paperwork as soon as we finish our sodas.
Guest (Male 2): Oh man, you're hawking me royal. It was bad enough when you became a ROTC.
Guest (Male): ROTC?
Guest (Male 3): Oh, that's what the Plato types call us ROTC cadets.
Guest (Male 2): But now you're going to quit that and volunteer? Man, at least ROTC would have kept you out of the war until you graduated.
Guest (Male 3): I'm a languages major. That makes me a specialist and they need me right now. I'll finish school when I get back.
Guest (Male 2): Yeah, if you get back.
Guest (Male 3): Plato.
Guest (Male 2): Don't do it, man. Don't give in to the imperialism of a fascist government. What the world needs now is love, sweet love.
Guest (Male 3): Yeah, that's the only thing that there's just too little of.
Guest (Male): I know that song.
Guest (Male 2): Hey, look, man, at least come to the peace rally at the University Mall.
Guest (Male 3): Plato.
Guest (Male 2): It starts in a half hour. If you could just hear the speakers, man, you'd know the truth.
Guest (Male 3): I know the truth. I've heard what the speakers have to say and I don't agree with them. So thanks, but no thanks. Besides, Judge and I have to go home and pack.
Guest (Male): Pack?
Guest (Male 2): You taking him to war too?
Guest (Male 3): Yeah, he'll be my secret weapon.
Guest (Male): We're going to our cabin on Lake Michigan.
Guest (Male 2): Ah, the cabin. I remember that place. I went there with your family when we were, what, in the fourth grade, right?
Guest (Male 3): Right. And Judge here was just a baby.
Guest (Male 2): Yeah. Man, that was fun.
Guest (Male 3): We're going to have fun now too. Hey, why don't you come with us? It'd be like old times.
Guest (Male 2): Yeah. Old times. No, no, forget it, man. If you want to ignore what's happening all around you, then you can just go to your cabin and stay in the dark. I'm going to change the world. Peace, brothers.
Guest (Male): He sure is different.
Guest (Male 3): He's just a little misguided right now, like a lot of people around here. Come on, let's go drop off those papers.
Guest (Male): We went to the ROTC administration building, dropped off the papers and Jerry said goodbye to everyone there. But we walked out to a small riot, a so-called peace rally that turned into a near war as some of the protesters decided to use force and fists to get their collective point across. Our timing couldn't have been worse. We became an immediate target for the protesters who rushed right at us screaming.
Guest (Male 3): Get behind me, Judge.
Guest (Male): They blocked our way and kept screaming and shouting at us. We retreated back into the building when several of them threw rocks smashing windows. Finally the police came and shot tear gas into the crowd breaking it up so we could leave.
Guest (Male 3): You all right, Judge?
Guest (Male): Yeah.
Guest (Male 3): Don't pay any attention to them. They don't know what they're talking about. Look, I I know you've seen some bad things about Vietnam on the news and maybe some of it's true, I don't know. You put some people into certain situations and they give in to evil.
Guest (Male): How do you know you won't?
Guest (Male 3): Because I have a strong ally. Jesus. He's watching over me, Judge. I know he's always with me. Okay? Okay?
Guest (Male): Okay.
Guest (Male 3): Okay. Now let's forget about what happened and just concentrate on our trip.
Guest (Male): So, that's what we did. We went to the cabin, and while we were there, we forgot all about riots and protesters and Vietnam. It was just us. Oh man, we had a ball. We did everything we'd planned. Swimming, boating, hiking, even bark collecting. Jerry taught me words and phrases from languages he knew. I really had the best time. But one evening toward the end of the trip, we were getting our camping gear together when we met with a surprise.
Guest (Male 3): All right, you got everything?
Guest (Male): Yeah, I think so. Do we have to do this?
Guest (Male 3): Will you stop? We're going to have a good time, okay? Now, come on, I want to set up the tent before it gets dark.
Guest (Male 2): Peace, brothers.
Guest (Male 3): Plato.
Guest (Male): Plato?
Guest (Male 2): Right on. So, can I come in?
Guest (Male 3): Uh yeah, sure.
Guest (Male 2): Groovy. Man, this place is just like I remember it.
Guest (Male 3): What are you doing here, Plato?
Guest (Male 2): I changed my mind about your invitation. I thought I'd come up and commune with nature, wash civilization off my body and cleanse myself of materialism. Like Thoreau said, man, simplify, simplify.
Guest (Male 3): Simplify, shmimplyfy. Plato, you hate nature. You get hives walking across the lawn.
Guest (Male 2): Hey, man, I'm trying to open my mind to new experiences.
Guest (Male 3): Come on, who are you trying to kid? I mean, it must be something pretty big to take you away from the anti-war movement. I mean, that's the most important. Oh. Oh no. No, Plato, tell me you're not doing this, please.
Guest (Male 2): Hey, you're fast, Jerry. No wonder the army wants you.
Guest (Male): Do what? What's he doing?
Guest (Male 3): He got his draft notice.
Guest (Male): So?
Guest (Male 2): So I'm not going. I'm dodging it. I'm running away to Canada.
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Guest (Male 3): You can't do this, Plato. You can't run away. It's against the law.
Guest (Male 2): So is killing, but the government's doing it by the thousands in Nam. I'm a person of conscience.
Guest (Male 3): Oh, please, spare me the anti-war bilge. All that's just an excuse. You want to take the easy way out.
Guest (Male 2): Hey man, this road is anything but easy. I'm leaving everything I've ever known, my whole life behind.
Guest (Male 3): So am I.
Guest (Male 2): Yeah, but the difference is, I'm doing it because of something I believe in. You're just blindly following an immoral government.
Guest (Male 3): I'm not blindly following anything.
Guest (Male 2): Oh no, I forgot. You volunteered.
Guest (Male 3): Yeah, I volunteered. As a matter of principle. A principle of duty, of honor. You used to know about those things, Plato. Just admit it. The real reason you don't want to go is because you're scared, right?
Guest (Male 2): You bet I'm scared. I'm not ashamed of it. Can you honestly say you're not scared?
Guest (Male 3): Sure I'm scared, but not enough to make me desert my country.
Guest (Male 2): Look, man, I'm leaving at sunrise. Taking a boat across the lake to Canada. I just came to see if, why don't you come with me?
Guest (Male 3): What?
Guest (Male 2): You heard me. You said it yourself, you're scared. You don't want to get killed. So come with me to Canada. Come with me and and live.
Guest (Male 3): Plato, just think about it, all right? Think about it.
Guest (Male 2): I'll be waiting for you at the boat dock in the morning.
Guest (Male 3): Let's go, Judge.
Guest (Male): But Jerry.
Guest (Male 3): Let's go.
Guest (Male): We were both very quiet as we set up the tent, lit a fire, and cooked dinner. We went to bed without saying much more than a couple of words to each other. I knew Jerry was doing a lot of thinking. I didn't know what to think, except that deep down inside I was afraid for him. Afraid that I might lose him. I don't know, maybe running to Canada was the answer. I slept fitfully and in the middle of the night I woke up.
Guest (Male): Jerry? Jerry, where are you?
Guest (Male): He wasn't in his sleeping bag or even in the tent. I clambered outside and I saw him sitting by the lake. So I moved toward him quietly and I heard him talking, praying, pouring out his heart to God.
Guest (Male 3): Lord Jesus, I I think I know what I'm supposed to do, but I'm scared. Very scared. You did teach that we should be peacemakers, but I know that running isn't right. I need your help, Jesus. Show me the way. Show me the way.
Guest (Male): I was still really concerned, but I was also comforted to hear my older brother praying. I just hoped that God would lead Jerry to the right decision. And in my heart, I thought I knew what that decision should be. Well, I went back to bed and slept soundly for the rest of the night. Too soundly it turned out because when I woke up, the sun was just rising and Jerry was gone. I jumped out of my sleeping bag and ran as fast as I could to the dock. And just as I got there, I saw Plato's boat taking off. And there was Jerry, standing on the dock waving to him.
Guest (Male 2): Peace, brother.
Guest (Male 3): God bless, Plato.
Guest (Male): Jerry! Jerry!
Guest (Male 3): Morning, Judge.
Guest (Male): Call him back. Call Plato back, please.
Guest (Male 3): Judge, he's made up his mind.
Guest (Male): No, no, call him back so you can go with him.
Guest (Male 3): What?
Guest (Male): You have to, Jerry, please. You can't go to Vietnam, you have to go to Canada.
Guest (Male 3): No, Judge, Judge.
Guest (Male): I don't care if it's against the law. I'd rather have you alive. Please, Jerry, please. Please.
Guest (Male 3): All right, all right. Just just just calm down now, okay? It's okay. Just calm down. Look, Judge, I thought and prayed long and hard about everything last night. For the first time in my life, I had to question, deeply question my convictions, my beliefs. And through all that questioning, the answer always came back to the same. Go. Go to Vietnam.
Guest (Male): But Jerry, what if you die?
Guest (Male 3): Jason, listen to me. Plato wanted me to go with him so I'd live. But for me, running away to Canada wouldn't be living. Not if it meant betraying my God, my country, my family, you? That's not living. Living is honoring my commitments all the way to the end, just like Jesus did. Remember? Jesus died so we could live. He conquered death so I don't have to be afraid of it. Neither do you. That's why I'm going, Jason. And why there was really never any choice about what I do.
Guest (Male): Oh, Jerry.
Guest (Male 3): Come on.
Guest (Male): Jerry.
Guest (Male 3): It's okay, little brother. There's no need to fear. Really. God is with me.
Guest (Male): The next day we packed up and went back to Chicago, and then the day after that we all went to see Jerry off at the airport. He hugged each of us, and then walked out and boarded the plane. That was the last time I ever saw him. Five months later to the day, November 12th, 1971, I came home from school to find Mom and Dad crying. They had received the visit. Jerry had been killed in a skirmish. He died protecting others.
Guest (Female): What was that date again?
Guest (Male): November 12th, 1971.
Guest (Female): Wow.
Guest (Male): What?
Guest (Female): Well, this postcard is dated November 7th. He'd mailed it only a few days before.
Guest (Male): What do you know? This was the last thing Jerry sent us from Vietnam.
Guest (Female): Yeah. You think maybe that's why it was in this book?
Guest (Male): What do you mean?
Guest (Female): Well, maybe it arrived on the same day your mom and dad heard about his death.
Guest (Male): Yeah, Dad must have been reading The Terminus Factor when he got the postcard and then used it to mark his place when the State Department guys came to the door. No wonder he said he always hated this book.
Guest (Female): But he could never bear to get rid of it.
Guest (Male): Yeah. And I think we should just keep it the way we found it.
Guest (Female): Me too. Here's the card.
Guest (Male): Thanks. Never forget, Plato was wrong. I won't forget, Jerry. I won't forget.
Chris: Sometimes doing what's right can be very difficult. It can even put you or someone you love in danger. And as Jason learned in today's adventure, it might mean losing someone you love, by them leaving or even dying. But Jerry knew that even though death was a very real possibility, he didn't have to be afraid because Jesus was with him no matter what.
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