"[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]" "Eat up, Ted." "I'm putting you to work this morning." " Good." " I thought he's supposed to be a guest." "No, don't you believe it." "I wanna be treated like family." "These are nice birds." "Birds." "[JASON SHOUTS] [TED SCREAMS]" "[JASON LAUGHS]" "JASON:" "See, Ted, there's nothing to it." "Why don't you give it a try?" "Oh, well, she doesn't even know me." "[JASON PLAYING "HAVA NAGILA" ON PIANO]" "[ALL LAUGHING AND SHOUTING]" "ERIN:" "Hey, don't do that!" "I can't believe there'd be such a thing as extermination camps." "Well, Hitler's said some terrible things about the Jews." "It's up to the CO to decide but I don't think you're drill instructor material." "It's because I'm Jewish, isn't it, sergeant?" "I have my reasons." "That's all you need to know." "JOHN-BOY:" "The battlefields of World War II were thousands of miles from Walton's Mountain but those times brought about many changes for my family on the home front." "My brother Jason was training recruits at nearby Camp Rockfish and like all servicemen, forming the close relationships that became so important during the war." "For the youngest members of our household the changes were not too drastic." "There were still chores to do, school to attend and the joys or sorrows that went with such events as bringing home report cards." "[STUDENTS LAUGHING AND CHATTERING]" "BOY:" "Come here." "Oh, Elizabeth, would you take this cocoa out to John and Ben, please?" "Jeffrey!" "Don't you have something to show me?" "Sorry, Nana." "Well...." "What have you got to say for yourself, young man?" "Nothing." "I guess I'm just not as bright as I used to be." "Now, that's not so!" "I don't want to hear talk like that." "You can make it up." " No, I can't." " Yes, you can, Jeffrey." "All you gotta do is your homework instead of fooling around all the time." "You should know, teacher's pet." "You know something, Jeffrey?" "You're right." "You're not very bright." "You know, she's right." ""Science, A. Algebra, A." "Civics, B. English, B."" "Jim-Bob, this is good." ""History, C"?" "Must be a mistake." "Who cares when the Normans invaded England?" "Just remember what Tennyson said:" ""Men always learn from their lessons in history."" "The quote is, "If men can learn from history what lessons it might teach us."" "And Coleridge said it." "Well, honey, come back here." "I wanna see your report card." "What's wrong with her?" "I don't know." "She didn't say two words on the way home from school." " Oh." "Would you sign that for me?" " With pleasure, son." "Then I'll buy you some cocoa." "Well, all I know is this:" "Headquarters has already put out an order for six new drill instructors." " You could be one of them." " Me, a DI?" "Sure." "Soon as you found out you had one left foot and one right one you took to soldiering like a bluebird takes to the sky." "That's real poetic." "It's not original." "My grandpa used to say it a lot." "Your grandpa should've known my grandpa, he had a lot of sayings." "Like he used to say:" "[IN YIDDISH ACCENT] "If you have to hit a child, use a string."" "[IN NORMAL VOICE] That's when my brothers got in trouble." " And you never got into trouble?" " Once." "I put a goldfish in Aunt Sadie's soup." "Heh." "No, those were the good old days." "Now Grandpa Lapinsky's back in Poland Leo and Sammy are somewhere in the South Pacific and Ma's worrying herself gray about all of them." "She shouldn't have to worry about you too." "You get that drill instructor job, it'll keep you here training recruits." "She'd like that." "It's not gonna happen though." "Sergeant Barnes won't let it." "Why not?" "Barnes knows you're a good noncom." "Maybe." "But Sergeant Barnes is anti-Semitic." "What?" " Believe me, he doesn't like Jews." " You're crazy." "I know." "And there's Honey Bear's mama." "You see, she's kind of upset." " Mama." " Yes." "Now Honey Bear's mama says:" "[IN HIGH-PITCHED VOICE] "Honey Bear you ate your dessert before dinner again." "[IN NORMAL VOICE] Then Honey Bear--" Look at that face." "He's got tears in his eyes and he's got honey all over his face." " It's Mommy honey." " No, that's baby bear's." "[IN HIGH-PITCHED VOICE] "Please don't tell Papa Bear."" "[IN NORMAL VOICE] That's what Honey Bear says." "See that?" "[CAR DOORS CLOSE]" "I think I hear someone coming." "Who's that?" "Is someone coming?" "I think I hear your mother." "Who's that?" "Who's that?" "Who's that?" " Hi." "Hi, Daddy." "MARY ELLEN:" "Hi." " Honey, how are you?" "ERIN:" "Fine." "Come on." "I remember when you used to read me funnies." "You still good at it?" "I heard no complaints." "I'd better go change." "I have a date after supper." " You be home early." " I will." " All right." " Hi, Rose." "ROSE:" "Hi." "I will have you know that John Curtis ate every last bite of his supper." "Good, I'll take him to bed while he's still in a good mood." "Now, you go to bed, it's time for bed." "Good night." "I think something's wrong with Elizabeth." "She's out on the porch and she isn't very friendly." "I have a notion it's something to do with her report card." "Could she have gotten a bad one?" "I mean, that's never happened before." "Don't be too hard on her, John." "Now, 14-year-old girls sometimes have special problems." "Can you tell me at what age they don't have special problems, Rose?" "You wanna talk about it?" "You know, if you're having trouble at school, there's ways to solve that." " There is." "I can quit." " That's a little drastic, honey." "There's plenty of brothers and sisters to help you with your studies, you know." " Daddy, I got straight A's." " Straight A's?" "Elizabeth, if I'd gotten straight A's when I was your age Ma and Pa would have declared a national holiday." " What's wrong with straight A's?" " It stinks." "All the girls think I'm a teacher's pet and the boys call me "big brain."" "Even Stevie." "Oh." "I thought Stevie was at the head of your list." "Now he's at the bottom." "They're all just jealous, Elizabeth." "It doesn't matter." "My life is ruined." "[DISHES CLATTERING]" "Uh-oh." "That's Rose." "I was supposed to help her with supper tonight." " Supper is almost ready." " Don't expect me to eat anything." "Straight A's." "[SQUAD GRUNTING]" "Squad's coming." " They're making good time too." " A buck says it's Corporal Moran." " You're on." "I think it's Lapinsky." " You serious?" "Sure." "Ted's coming along real well." "You got a bet." "I ought to be giving you odds." "[BARNES LAUGHS]" "I remember the first time I took a squad out on one of these exercises." "It was pouring." "I never saw a muddier bunch of guys." "Squad, halt!" "You owe me a buck, sarge." "TED:" "Squad, halt!" "Forward march!" " Sound off!" "SQUAD:" "One, two!" " Sound off!" " Three, four!" " Sound off!" " One, two, three, four, one, two!" "Three, four!" "Squad, halt!" "Order, out!" "At ease!" "Flag was where it was supposed to be, sergeant." "East side, hill number seven." "Good job, corporal." "Sarge, they were the first group in." "Oh, yeah." "Passes all around, corporal." "Ten-hut!" "Port arms!" "Double time!" "Forward!" "Sergeant what do you think about Lapinsky for one of those DI openings?" " I wouldn't." " Sergeant?" " It just wouldn't work." " Why not?" "He's good." "None of the other squads are even in sight yet." "He's a good enough soldier." "Just doesn't have the mettle to be a sergeant." "Look, if you wanna recommend him to the CO, that's your business." "I intend to." "Evening, Ted." "We're here on an official business." "You've been nominated for one of the six drill instructor positions coming up." "BARNES:" "I'm gonna be perfectly honest with you, Lapinsky." "It's up to the CO to decide but I don't think you're drill instructor material." " Why not?" " I just don't." "But Walton here put your name in so we have to consider it." "It's because I'm Jewish, isn't it, sergeant?" "I have my reasons." "That's all you need to know." "JASON:" "Ted!" " I'm gonna knock" "I'll shove your teeth down your anti-Semitic throat!" "JASON:" "Snap out of it, Ted!" "Now, that's what I don't like about you people, pushy and hotheaded." "Get back in there!" " Hold it!" "Calm down!" " I should have killed him!" "Look, no matter what either of us thinks of Barnes one thing he said is right." "Unless you settle down, you're not getting that DI job." "I'm just sorry you were there to stop me." "[SIGHS]" "I got this letter." "Bad news?" "My grandpa's dead." "I'm sorry, Ted." "[JASON SIGHS]" "I know how you feel." "I lost my grandpa too." "[TED CLEARS THROAT]" "Well, I guess I'll wash up." "Ted." "You've got a weekend pass." "Why don't you spend it with me and my family?" "I'd like that, Jason." "Thank you." "I don't blame you for being upset." "But Sergeant Barnes, he doesn't have anything to do with your grandpa dying." "Yes, he does." "He has everything to do with it." "[JOHN GRUNTING]" "JIM-BOB:" "King me, please." " Aww...." "It's your game, Jim-Bob." "I'm beat." "Come on, Daddy." "I've seen you get out of worse spots than this." "I'm just too sleepy now." "Maybe the corporal would like to take over for me." "It's your move, Daddy." "Jim-Bob, the only move I'm gonna make is upstairs to bed." "How about you, Ted?" "After that hike today, I'm surprised you're still going." "When I get tired enough I'll be able to sleep." "Anyway, I like looking at these old pictures." "Your family's a lot like mine, except we were born in a city." "I've never been on a farm before." "Why don't you have Jason show you around tomorrow?" "TED:" "This is your grandpa?" "That's him." "Why don't we finish this game tomorrow?" "Nope." "Oh, Jim-Bob, you're a rough man." "You should practice up." "I'll play you again." "JOHN:" "Aah!" " Good night, everybody." " Good night, Jim-Bob." "I appreciate you letting me stay." "I'll be right up, Ted." "Jim-Bob will show you where to sleep." "I thought you said your friend was a barrel of laughs." "He hardly said a word all night." "He just found out his grandpa died." "He's taking it kind of hard." "Sorry to hear about that." "I think he'd like to talk about it, but he just can't." "He'll sort things out." "We'll try to make him feel at home." "That ought to help." "Maybe you can play checkers with him." "There we go, hot off the griddle." "You know I can't eat all these." "They do feed us at the mess hall." "But not like this." "These are the best pancakes I ever ate, Rose." "ROSE:" "Well, thank you, Ted." "Eat up, Ted." "I'm putting you to work this morning." " Good." " I thought he's supposed to be a guest." "No, don't you believe it." "I wanna be treated like family." " Hey, then you can do my chores." "TED:" "Ha!" "Ooh." "I think that's a very good idea." "It'll give you extra time for studying." "JEFFREY:" "On a Saturday?" "You don't hear your cousin Elizabeth complaining about homework, do you?" "That's how she got to be as smart as she is." "I'd rather be dumb than walk around having everybody call me a teacher's pet." "Be quiet, Jeffrey." "Teacher's pet, teacher's pet, gonna get your panties wet." "Jeffrey!" "You go up to your room and stay there until I figure out a sufficient punishment for that kind of behavior." "Now, get!" "Mercy." "He didn't mean it, Elizabeth." "He's just ashamed of his grades." "I know how he feels." "Well, from here on, you're never gonna catch me doing homework anymore." "What was all that about?" "She got all A's in her report card and all her friends are teasing her about it." "I had friends like that at school too." "I gotta work some of these pancakes off." "Where do we start, boss?" "Well, the first thing you gotta do is take off that uniform and put on some overalls." "Do I get a straw hat too?" "I don't know." "What do you think, Rose?" "Can you see Ted in a straw hat?" "Well, I can, but I don't know about the livestock." "It's liable to start a stampede." "[ROSE LAUGHING]" "Jason, do these bite?" "JASON:" "You better watch it, Ted, they've got teeth." " They'll take your toe right off." " No." "Seriously?" " Look out." " I don't like the look of them." " Look out for this one here." " Which one?" " That's the ringleader." "Careful." " I don't even like chicken salad." "ELIZABETH:" "Jason!" "[JASON  TED YELL]" "You are so mean." "They don't bite." " They don't...?" " They're very safe." "He lies." "Come on, just feed them." "Just take a little bit and...." " Really?" " Yeah." " They like this." " Yeah." "Birds." "Hi, birds." "These are nice birds." "Birds." "[JASON SHOUTS] [TED SCREAMS]" "[JASON LAUGHS]" "JASON:" "See, Ted, there's nothing to it." "Why don't you give it a try?" "Oh, well, she doesn't even know me." "Oh, I'm sorry." "Myrtle, this is Ted Lapinsky." "Ted, this is Myrtle." " Hi, Myrtle." " Come on." " Here you go." " Once in my life." "[JASON LAUGHS]" " Hey!" "You got it, your first time." " Hey!" " Well, here we are." " These are pigs." " No, these are rabbits." " Here, let me feed them." "I got nothing against feeding pigs." "I just don't like to eat them." "Do they really eat this garbage?" " They really eat this garbage." " Ha-ha-ha." "[WHOOPING]" "Thanks for the ride." " We'll give you a lift home too!" " And a hand with the groceries." "JASON:" "If you think that was bad, you ought to drive with Jim-Bob sometime." " Ike." " Hi, kid." "I'd like you to meet my friend, Corporal Ted Lapinsky." "This is Ike Godsey." " I'm very proud to meet you, corporal." " It's my pleasure, Mr. Godsey." " How do you do?" "I am Corabeth Godsey." " How do you do?" "Jason's told me so much about both of you." "Lapinsky." "That's an interesting name." "Foreign, isn't it?" "Yes, ma'am, all the way from Chicago." "Ha!" "Corabeth, this is the list of some of the stuff I need." "Excuse me." "TED:" "Whew." "You got some store here, Mr. Godsey." "Huh." "Wow." "Well, it looks like you carry almost everything." "We got everything from A to Z. Ammunition to zinc." "But you said almost." "Is there something you don't see?" "Because I probably have it somewhere." "How about bagels?" "Have you got bagels?" "Bagels?" "Um...." "Bagels." "Is there some other name that I might know it by?" "Well, it's round with a hole in it." "Looks like a doughnut, but it's not sweet." "It's a roll, really, it's a Jewish roll." " Oh." "I haven't had one in so long." " Oh, it sounds tasty." " I'm sorry, I don't have it though." " Well, that's all right." "You know, huh, the layout's different but this place reminds me of my father's delicatessen." "Ooh, delicatessen, from the French word délicatesse which means "delicacy."" "It could be, ma'am." "I always thought delicatessen was a German word but it would mean the same thing." "It's kind of a specialty shop, isn't it?" "Not exactly." "Everything's already prepared, though." "May I?" "Yeah, sure, yeah." "Over here is the meat and the fish." "Cold roast beef, corned beef, tongue, salami, and herring and gefilte fish." "Gefilte what?" "Gefilte fish, you'd love it." "And smoked white fish, things like that." "And down here is the pickles and the sauerkraut and the Greek olives, and three different kinds of coleslaw and potato salad and the relishes." "And over here is the dairy case." "Six" " No, seven different kinds of cheeses." "And sweet butter and sour cream...." "I haven't even got to the baked goods yet." "And I didn't wanna mention Iox because I might cry." "I guess I'm just homesick." "CORABETH:" "Elizabeth, I think everything is here." "However, I know that you did not make out this list because there are misspelled words on it and we all know you got straight A's in school." "We're very proud of you." "She's as smart as she is pretty." "Corabeth, my daddy will come by and pay for this later." "Hey, aren't you gonna give me a chance to act like a gentleman?" " Great to meet you both." " So long, corporal." " Bye, Jason." " It was nice talking to you." "IKE:" "Same here." "How come they're not biting, Jason?" "They're not biting." "Fishing is supposed to be fun, Ted, it's not work." "The object is to catch a fish." "Mainly, relaxing is what it's for." "My grandpa used to fish all the time and he claimed he never caught a worthwhile fish when he was awake." "Well, my grandpa and I never went fishing but we used to take the bus to the Foster Avenue beach and sit and watch the sailboats on the lake." "And he'd tell me how he wanted to go back to Poland." "Got his wish." "[JASON PLAYING "HAVA NAGILA" ON PIANO]" "TED:" "Left, right!" "[ALL LAUGHING AND SHOUTING]" "Left!" "Kick, kick, kick." "ERIN:" "I'm lost." "TED:" "And you get tired." "ELIZABETH:" "I got it." "I got it." "TED:" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "ERIN:" "Hey, don't do that!" "TED:" "Here we go." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on!" "Come on!" "[PLAYING STOPS]" "JASON:" "Ted." " What's the matter?" " I'm sorry." "This dance, the hora, my grandfather loved it." "We had a grandpa who loved music." "He's gone now too." "He's gone, yes." "As all grandfathers should be allowed to go." "But not my zayde, my grandfather." "He was murdered!" "Ted, what are you talking about?" "I got this letter." "My folks sent it to me." "They smuggled it out of Europe somehow." "It was written by a friend of our family." "It's faded in spots." "See, parts are missing." "And it's in Yiddish, which I don't read too well but I get the meaning loud and clear." ""The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising." "It took those Nazis five months to break it using airplanes, tanks, everything."" "And it says:" ""Yacov Lapinsky, one of the leaders lived to be captured, taken to a place called Treblinka." "We all know of the slave labor camps." "For the first time, now we learn of extermination camps."" "Extermination, that's the word here." ""In Poland, in Germany, where thousands have been taken among them Yacov Lapinsky and...." "And...." "He was killed by poison gas."" "Poison gas." "My grandpa." "It was hard times when Grandpa came to live with us." "Papa's deli was close to going under." "Gave too much credit, couldn't turn down his neighbors." "I remember those days." "It wasn't easy." "Daddy had some rough times too." "It was Grandpa who kept us all going." "He'd seen the hard times in the old country." "He kept telling us we were living like kings." "And you know, we started believing him." "My grandpa could do that too." "He used to tell us things about nature that made us feel rich even though we were dirt poor." "And my grandpa would help out in the deli but he always seemed to have time for us kids." " Such stories he would tell us." " And songs." "My grandpa knew more songs than anybody I ever met." "The two grandpas should have known each other, Jason." "It would have made for some lively times, that's for sure." "Do you remember that song I heard you singing in the barracks?" " Your Uncle Irving's favorite?" " Yeah." " You wanna sing it again?" " You wanna join me?" "We shouldn't wake up everybody." "Pianissimo." "[SINGING] When shadows fall" "And trees whisper day is ending" "My thoughts are ever wending home" "BOTH:" "When crickets call" "[KNOCK ON DOOR]" "Come in." "John, did I wake you?" "No, Rose, I can't sleep thinking about what Ted said about his grandfather." "Well, I'm having the same trouble." "Do you think that could be true?" "I can't believe anything about any extermination camps, Rose." "Well, Hitler said some terrible things about the Jews." "But murdering a whole group of people?" "You do business with people down there in Washington." "Is there anybody you could ask?" "Matt Sarver knows a senator or two." "Well, do you think he'd mind if you called him?" "I wouldn't give a damn if he did." "Well, I'll just pray Ted's story isn't true." "Makes a man feel like he ought to be in the army." " Good night, John." " Good night, Rose." "BOTH:" "Night covers all" "And though fortune may forsake me" "Sweet dreams will ever take me home" "[SNIFFLES]" "Yes, senator, I understand." "You see, it's just that the young man" "Of course I believe you, senator." "Yes, sir." "I was in that one too." "I remember." "Yeah, it does make good sense, sir." "Thank you." "Sorry to bother you on a Sunday morning." "You've eased my mind, sir." "Thank you." "Goodbye." " Good morning." " Good morning, Elizabeth." "How come you didn't go to church with the others?" "I felt like walking alone." "JOHN:" "Morning." " Good morning." " Nice day, isn't it?" " Very nice day." "I was wondering if I could say a prayer for your grandpa in church today." "I'd be grateful, Elizabeth." "See you later." " Bye, Daddy." "JOHN:" "Goodbye, honey." "Feeling any better today?" "Being able to talk was a help." "I really slept last night." "I was just talking to Washington." "A friend of mine put me in touch with a Senator Roberts." " You were talking to a senator in there?" " Yeah." "He said there were no foundation of those rumors you heard." "Well, Mr. Walton...." "The letter." ""Now we hear of extermination camps," that's what it said." "We already know there are slave labor camps." "Yeah, he told me things were pretty bad over there." "But he also said there's a lot of propaganda." "It happens in war, you know." "I remember during the last war seeing pictures of German soldiers bayoneting babies." "Sometimes rumors are more powerful than rifles, you know." "I'd love to believe what the senator says." "[TED SIGHS]" "I've prayed that if my grandpa had to die, he died in the fighting." " And not the other way." " Now, listen, son." "Maybe those kind of mass killings happened way back then but this is 1943." "Human beings from one group doing that to another group not today." "It's just unthinkable." "So was another World War until it happened." "So you don't go to church with the others?" "No, I'm not much of a churchgoer." "How about you?" "I go to temple on the holy days, but that's about it." "If I had a temple, it would be that." "Walton's Mountain." "TED:" "Named after your father?" " No, after his great-grandfather." " How would you like to go up there?" " Sure." "Oh, I really would." "We could have a picnic, the whole family." "You know how to make sandwiches?" "Does a bear sleep in the forest?" "I spent my entire childhood in a delicatessen." "Let's go." "We can get it done before the family gets back from church." "Great." "This is wonderful." "We're gonna need some cold cuts and we'll need...." "[TED HUMMING "HAVA NAGILA"]" "You sure know how to handle that knife." "Thanks." "More people are cut by dull knives than sharp ones." " That's true of the ax too, you know." " Really?" "I hope Rose doesn't mind us using up her pretty roast." "Me too." "How are the potatoes doing?" "I can't tell, they may be a little hard still." "We don't want them too soft for the salad." "Oh, they're perfect." " They are?" " Let's see about these eggs." "Hot eggs!" "Hot eggs." "[HUMMING]" "Yes!" "They're ready too." "Okay." "What do I do with these potatoes?" "Let's just dump the whole works into some cold water." "Oh, yeah?" "Yes, sir." "[TED LAUGHS]" "Jim-Bob, where is everybody?" "JIM-BOB:" "Talking to Rev. Bradshaw, telling him how good his sermon was." "They don't get here soon, I may walk." " Hi, Jim-Bob!" " Hi, Jim-Bob!" "ELIZABETH:" "Ick." "I think I'll walk anyhow." "How come you weren't at the dance last night?" "We were hoping you'd be there." "An Army buddy of Jason's stopped by the house so I thought I'd stick around." "We didn't see Elizabeth either." "It's too bad she couldn't get a date." "FLO:" "Well, some of us can get dates and others can get straight A's." "LUCILLE:" "I know what I'd rather have." "FLO:" "Me too." " See you later." " Bye, Jim-Bob." "Yuck." "You shouldn't pay attention to them, Elizabeth." "They're just creeps anyway." "Elizabeth." "What have you done to my Sunday dinner?" "We're moving it to the mountain, Rose." "You telling me you two put this together?" "Certainly, Walton-and-Lapinsky-catered picnic." "Well, for pity's sake, don't forget the salt and pepper." "And what are we going to drink?" "Hot chocolate, Rose." "We're all ready to go and you're not." "All right." "Don't leave without me." "I've gotta get my picnic outfit." "Daddy, here's some plants for Grandpa's grave." " Put them in the truck." " All right." "Your father's buried on the mountain?" "That's where he wanted to be." "We bring plants when we go up there." " Well, I might be intruding." " No, Pa would be glad to have you come." "Well, then we better get this stuff cleaned up." "JIM-BOB:" "Come on, Elizabeth, you gotta go." " Daddy?" "JOHN:" "What, honey?" "I don't feel like going, I got a stomachache." "JOHN:" "Elizabeth." "What's wrong with her?" "Some girls from school made cracks about her getting good grades but no dates." "Wish she wouldn't take things so seriously." "You know, it's pretty important at her age what your friends think." "Would it be all right if I talked to her?" " Where is she, Jim-Bob?" " The tree house, probably." "She's pretty stubborn." "Don't count on her changing her mind." "Well, I just think I know how she feels." " You up there, Elizabeth?" " No!" "Do you mind if I come up?" "I was never in a tree house." "[GRUNTS]" "Very nice." "Secluded." "I don't think I'm gonna go to the picnic either." "It's your business." "I'd like to talk to you." "About what?" " Your report card, for one thing." " Now, don't you start in on me." "I got good grades too." "Come up." "[ELIZABETH SIGHS]" "See, it's not as bad for a boy to be smart." "But girls, in school they're supposed to learn cooking and childcare." "You know what my teacher wants me to take next?" "Chemistry." "That's terrific." "She thinks you got enough going to make something out of yourself, maybe go on to college." "It only makes me feel more different." "Tell me about it." "I was the Jewish kid in class, remember." "On top of everything, I had to go to Hebrew school, which I hated." "And the kids on my block didn't just call you names they threw things." " What did you do?" " I threw them back when I could." "Mostly I ran." "Sometimes they caught me." " Got beat up?" " No, not always." "I remember one time my grandpa came to walk me home from school." "A bunch of the neighborhood kids were yelling insults at us." "My grandpa didn't understand every word but he knew an insult when he heard one." "He started calling down curses on these tough kids." "[IN YIDDISH ACCENT] "May you grow like an onion with your head in the ground." "If you were twice as smart, you'd still be an idiot."" "[IN NORMAL VOICE] And the one I really liked:" "[IN YIDDISH ACCENT] "You should inherit a hotel with a thousand rooms and be found dead in every room."" "[SIGHS]" "[IN NORMAL VOICE] My grandpa looked so fierce that they were convinced he was in direct contact with God and could call down floods and earthquakes." "Who knew what other kind of disasters?" "And things were a lot easier on me after that." "He sounds a lot like my grandpa." "What would your grandpa have said about your getting straight A's?" "He would say, "If the good Lord gave you a mind, he meant for you to use it."" "If you go to the picnic, I will." "ALL [SINGING]:" "Clementine" "Light she was and like a fairy" "And her shoes were number nine" "Herring boxes, without topses Sandals were for Clementine" "Oh, my darling, oh, my darling" "Oh, my darling, Clementine" "You are lost and gone forever" "Dreadful sorry, Clementine" "I can't believe this country." "It's like a travelogue, in color yet." "Wait till we get up to the top." "You can see everything from there." " Chicago?" " Sure, on a clear day." "Wait till you get that third stripe, you'll be able to come here all the time." " Will you be staying in Camp Rockfish?" " Sure, he'd be cadre just like me." " That'd be neat." " Yeah, that would be neat." "This nice feast just didn't happen." "We gotta thank somebody for it, and I'll tell you who did it all, Ted." "JASON:" "Let's hear it for Ted." "You did it too." "[ALL CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]" "There's someone else we should thank." "Dear God we ask you to bless this food." "We thank you for letting us be here under these trees and this blue sky." "We ask you to bless all those we love both here on earth and in heaven." " Amen." " Amen." "ALL:" "Amen." "JOHN:" "Well, dig in." "JASON:" "Better move fast, Ted, or go hungry." "[JASON  TED LAUGH]" "ROSE:" "Oh, Ted." "Mmm." "Oh!" "Ted, this is so heavenly, it's sinful!" "JASON:" "Where are the sandwiches?" "BEN:" "Over here." "JASON:" "Where?" "Over here?" " It needs a little work." " Yeah." "Looks pretty messed up." " We can do it." "MARY ELLEN:" "Here we go." "[CHATTERING]" "You know, it's funny, but I still don't feel like enough of a Walton to work around Grandpa's grave." "Well, Cindy dear, you ought to, with that young one inside you." "I suppose." "And Ben invited me." "But somehow, I would have felt like an intruder." "I mean, they were all so close and they loved Grandpa Walton so much." "I notice you're not up there." "Well, I feel so lucky to be part of this family that, heh, I feel the least I can do is give them a little privacy." "Nana, Nana!" "Look at all these pine cones we found." " Look at this." " Oh, my word." " I wanna go show them to Uncle John." " Oh." "This is the biggest one I found." "This one is." "I'm gonna show him this one." "Listen, both of you, whoa-down here." "Whoa-down to about 100 miles an hour." " Now, see that pine tree over there?" " Yeah." "Now go and get some more pine cones from there and when you get enough all together, we'll make something with them." " Like what?" " It's a surprise." " Now, scoot!" "Both of you." " Come on!" "What are you gonna make, Rose?" "Cindy, since you're about to become a mother I think you should know how to keep children busy." " And this will be good practice for you." " What would?" "Helping me to figure out what to do with all these pine cones." "[LAUGHING]" "Thanks a lot." "Ha-ha-ha." "JOHN:" "Where's everybody else?" "Where's Cindy?" "BEN:" "I think they just wanted us to be left alone with Grandpa, Daddy." "There's no need for that." "I have a feeling maybe Ted's doing the same thing." "Maybe he's got some private thoughts for his grandpa too." "Why don't you go get him?" "The more the merrier as far as Pa's concerned." " That's a good idea." "I'll go talk to him." " I will too." "How come you decided to come along, honey?" "Well, Ted asked me what Grandpa would say about my grades." "I guess everybody's gonna have to get used to me being smart, including me." "Hey, Jason." "You all through over there?" "There's no reason you couldn't join us." "Well, you know." "I've been wanting to talk to you about something." "The drill instructor job." "You don't want it, do you?" "I wanna volunteer for a unit that's going to Europe." "It's too late to save your grandpa now, Ted." "It's more than that." "But I do wanna find his grave." "And after the war's over, to say a special prayer." "To put his soul at peace." "And mine too." "I wanna know where my grandpa's buried, Jason." "That prayer." "You wanna try it out on us?" " I think my grandpa would like to hear it." " You mean now?" "For both grandpas, Lapinsky and Walton." "Come on." "All right, everybody, it's getting late." "Daddy." "Before we go, Ted's got a special prayer he'd like to say." "Well, it's called Kaddish." "It's our mourner's prayer." "It's over 5000 years old, from Israel." "It glorifies God and affirms our faith." "And mostly, it asks for peace for our loved one and for everyone." "We could use that kind of prayer, son." "Okay, everybody, gather around." "[SPEAKING IN HEBREW]" "JOHN:" "Amen." "JOHN-BOY:" "We were tragically mistaken." "It was only near the end of the war that we learned that there had indeed been extermination camps Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Treblinka where unspeakable and unthinkable horrors had been committed while on Walton's Mountain, a young man prayed for his grandfather." "ELIZABETH:" "Daddy?" "JOHN:" "Yes, honey?" "ELIZABETH:" "Do you think they'll send Ted Lapinsky to Europe?" "JOHN:" "I guess so." "It's where he wants to go." "ELIZABETH:" "I'm going to pray he'll be all right." "JOHN:" "That might help, honey." "It sure couldn't hurt." "ELIZABETH:" "Good night, Daddy." "JOHN:" "Good night." "[ENGLISH" " US" " SDH]"