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01:16The peace and beauty of the land and sky around Walton's Mountain
01:20was a source of constant comfort to all of us
01:23during those difficult depression years.
01:26Some of the changes that were going on in the world
01:28did eventually reflect themselves on our mountain,
01:32like the increase in the number of airplanes that spotted the sky.
01:36In particular, I remember an airmail plane
01:39that used our mountain as a landmark.
01:42My mother especially liked to wait for the plane to go over,
01:46and sometimes watching, she'd get the look on her face
01:49people have when they watch wild geese
01:51winging their way south to warm, sunny days.
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02:00Wish you two would hurry up.
02:01You got a bunch of starving men here.
02:05And starving ladies.
02:06You're not a lady.
02:08What am I?
02:09You're just a little girl.
02:11Well, stay that way as long as you can,
02:13because when you get to be my age,
02:14it's nothing but work and worry.
02:15I would prefer a little less philosophy
02:17and more food this PM.
02:21Here.
02:22Thanks.
02:22He could help, you know.
02:23Well, it's not my turn.
02:25So what?
02:26Well, I'll help you anyway, then.
02:27Gee, thanks.
02:28You're welcome.
02:29Oh, have you kids got your money saved up
02:30for Mama's birthday present?
02:32Not much.
02:33Eight cents.
02:35How about you, Jim Bob?
02:36It's upstairs.
02:37I'll count it later.
02:38Oh, all right.
02:39Your supper, sir.
02:40Thank you, ma'am.
02:41You're welcome.
02:42Must be awful to be somebody's wife
02:44and have to do this every day of your life.
02:46Well, if you don't learn to be a little more pleasant,
02:48you won't have that problem to worry about.
02:51Well, once you've found your true love,
02:53you'll be plenty willing to do for him,
02:54just like when your grandma found me.
02:57Well, I'm going to have a whole nother life full of glamour.
03:00I bet you can't eat to spend.
03:02I heard that.
03:03Well, I hope we don't all starve to death
03:04before we get to see that glamour of yours.
03:07I think I understand men a lot better than Mary Ellen does.
03:09You're a born slave, Aaron.
03:11You two stop picking on each other and let's eat.
03:13Eric, I sure wish your mama'd come in.
03:19She's out looking at the airplane.
03:20Good lord, you'd think she never saw
03:22an airplane before in her life.
03:24Whenever there's anything up in the sky,
03:25it's always interesting.
03:28Last week and a half, you'd think
03:29that plane was the only thing that mattered to her.
03:33John, why do we have enough?
03:34Enough what, honey?
03:35Enough money for mama's birthday present.
03:38Well, with Jim Bob's savings included,
03:41if that turns out to be as much as I suspect it is,
03:43we'll probably be able to buy her some nice chocolate,
03:45make her a good cake.
03:46And some candles.
03:48Oh, you got that much, do you?
03:49Mm-hmm.
03:52How many do we need?
03:54Well, I'm not sure how much
03:56mama's looking forward to this birthday.
04:00Why don't we put on about 12?
04:02Yeah, well, this food'll taste like it's 12 years old
04:04if she don't come in here.
04:06John boy, will you tell your mama the food's getting cold?
04:11Yeah.
04:14You slave away all day and then there's nobody here
04:16to appreciate it, that's all you have to do.
04:19Did you get mama a present?
04:21I sure did.
04:22What is it?
04:24Surprise, something I made for myself.
04:32He's late tonight.
04:33Never been late before, always like clockwork.
04:37Gotten to be a regular part of your day here.
04:40Seem marvelous to you to be waved at from an airplane?
04:43Yeah, brings the sky down close to you, doesn't it?
04:51There he is.
05:03There he goes.
05:05Oh, oh, oh, you think I'm being silly, John boy?
05:10No, I don't.
05:16Think she'll like it, Jason?
05:17If she can figure out what it is.
05:19Shut up, Ben.
05:20What about the color?
05:22No worries, she'll love it.
05:25Hey, quiet.
05:32Sorry, I'm late.
05:35Maybe someday when I grow up,
05:36I'll be another Amelia Earhart.
05:38Maybe that's who I'll be when I grow up.
05:41Well, I've been too busy to think about such things.
05:45Guess I have too, grandma.
05:49Didn't he just go by?
05:54John, listen, something's wrong.
06:05Where is he?
06:06I don't know, but he's in trouble, isn't he?
06:08Sounds like he's circling back.
06:10There he is, right there.
06:13See?
06:17He's too low, he's gonna land in the pasture road.
06:24He's trying to land in the pasture, he's gonna crash.
06:26John boy, get the truck, turn it around,
06:28put the lights out at the end of the...
06:29Get those lights, all of them.
06:30Get the one on the left.
06:31Come on, come on.
06:31Stand by.
06:32Stand by.
06:33Stand by.
06:35Get those lights.
06:36Come on.
06:37Come on.
06:45Come on.
06:54Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold it.
06:56Hold it.
06:57Right here.
06:58All right, here, quick.
06:58Here's the light.
06:59Here.
07:00Okay, go.
07:01Keep it apart.
07:02There you go.
07:03Is that that one?
07:04Okay, come on.
07:05He took it out of the end of the road.
07:06Get way down there now.
08:03Easy, easy.
08:19Elizabeth.
08:26You won't believe it.
08:29That's the trickiest landing I ever made.
08:31Well, you're lucky to be alive at all, young man.
08:35Easy.
08:37Easy now, easy, easy, lad.
08:59I've got a broken oil line.
09:01I've got oil all over the magneto.
09:07And I've got a gasoline leak.
09:10If you think it'll look better in the morning,
09:11why don't you come up to the house with us?
09:14Well, that makes sense.
09:17I so appreciate your help.
09:18My name's Cooper.
09:19Todd Cooper.
09:20John Walden.
09:21Mr. Walden, I need to use your phone to call Atlanta.
09:24Tell them the mail's safe and I'm alive.
09:26You don't have a phone, but we can get you the one.
09:29Okay.
09:31Okay.
09:36Oh, uh, someone here and I are already friends.
09:41It's Mama.
09:42She waits for you every night.
09:43I never expected you to fall out of the sky.
09:47I never expected anyone quite so beautiful.
09:53Would you kids like to give me a hand?
09:56Can't leave the mail unguarded.
09:57Sure.
10:02There you go.
10:03Here's one.
10:04Ben, Ben, give me one.
10:05They're too heavy for him.
10:05They are not, Ben.
10:06Ben, would you leave me alone?
10:13This here's a Stearman, just like my model, isn't it?
10:15Yeah.
10:23Hey, champ.
10:25Take it easy.
10:26That's U.S. mail.
10:32And when that engine started missing,
10:33I knew I had to come down.
10:35And I remembered your pasture.
10:37Just like Lindbergh.
10:39That was a mighty impressive display
10:40of flying ability, young man.
10:42Yeah, well, if I can't take off in the morning,
10:43I'm gonna have to truck those pouches down to the train.
10:46Where is the nearest train stop?
10:48Rockfish, about six miles from here.
10:50Yeah.
10:52That was my last flight.
10:54Would have liked to have gotten it through on time.
10:56Changing jobs?
10:58Yep.
10:59Went on to a more exciting kind of flying.
11:00More exciting than flying the mail?
11:02Oh, barnstorming, air shows, racing.
11:05It's a real kind of flying.
11:06All in the mail, well, that kind of gets to be
11:08kind of like driving a truck after a while.
11:09You're giving up a steady job
11:11for a flying circus in these times?
11:13Probably pays more than chopping wood, ma.
11:16Of course, there's days we can't fly.
11:18I don't pay us for waiting for the weather to clear.
11:21Flying up there in the sky like a bird,
11:22I just can't imagine what that must be like.
11:24Yeah, it gets to be pretty exciting at first.
11:27Then after a while, flying back and forth
11:29between Washington and Atlanta,
11:30it gets kind of dull.
11:31Dull?
11:32Sure.
11:34Mr. Cooper, where do you call home?
11:37Well, it used to be Washington, D.C.
11:39From now on, it's gonna be the backseat of an airplane.
11:41Joining an air show in Florida next week.
11:44Must be kind of hard on your family
11:45with you streaking through the sky all the time.
11:49Well, I'm a loner, Mrs. Walton.
11:52No family to speak of.
11:55If I could trouble you for a ride down to that telephone,
11:56Mr. Walton?
11:57I have a little work to finish up.
11:59John Boyd, take Mr. Cooper down to Ike's, will you?
12:01Oh, yeah, sure.
12:04Should I go?
12:06We should talk about flying.
12:07Oh, I've had enough flying for today, kid.
12:12Tomorrow, huh?
12:13Promise?
12:14I promise.
12:15After I fix the plane.
12:16If there's time.
12:21Don't sound like much of a promise to me.
12:24Yes, indeed.
12:25It does seem that young man has something else on his mind.
12:28That's no excuse for hurting a child's feelings.
12:34John Boyd.
12:37Here's the money for Mama's birthday present.
12:39Don't tell anyone.
12:41Not a word.
12:42Don't lose it.
12:44I promise.
12:49Let's go.
12:50You must get to see a lot of the country.
12:53I do.
12:55A lot of flying's changing.
12:57Five years ago, we had hardly any instruments.
12:59Now, there's even talk about putting radios
13:01in the mail planes.
13:02Must be getting a lot safer, though.
13:04Safer, yeah.
13:05The fun's going out of flying fast.
13:08Rules.
13:10You mean, it's getting just like any other job, huh?
13:11Same thing every day.
13:13Yeah.
13:13I mean, it's a lot of fun.
13:15I mean, it's a lot of fun.
13:16I mean, it's a lot of fun.
13:17I mean, it's a lot of fun.
13:18It's a lot of fun.
13:19Yeah.
13:21That and other things.
13:24Aviation's settling down.
13:26Growing up.
13:28Getting established, you might say.
13:30I guess that's why you want to go barnstorming, huh?
13:39How far to that telephone now?
13:42Almost there.
13:49Can't even give up walking, can I?
13:51Words don't often go unheard.
13:53I guess I'm gonna have to give up now.
13:55Murray, I'm gonna have to end this.
13:56Let's just say it was just trying to get
13:59us in some weird position.
14:00Come on, guys, it was just an idea.
14:03It was just a fear that I had.
14:10Dick, I don't think you put yourself out for me,
14:13Chris.
14:14Don't expect me to.
14:15I'm not would-be, just like you are.
14:17Yeah, I guess I can understand that.
14:20There ought to be something here, though, that I can give to Olivia.
14:25And, operator, if anyone tries to reach me, tell them I'll be flying out early.
14:30No, I don't have a number where I can be reached.
14:37Oh, thanks.
14:38Oh, I bet Olivia liked it.
14:41Oh, that's beautiful.
14:47Real tortoise shell. Gave one of those to my... to a girlfriend once.
14:52That's really too much, I. Thank you, anyway.
14:55Well, like I always said, the only thing that exceeds my income from this store is my generosity.
14:59Now, you take it, and wish Olivia a happy birthday for me.
15:03Well, thank you very much. You'll really appreciate it.
15:06Thank you, I. Good night.
15:08Thanks for the gift of your telephone, Mr. Garfield.
15:11Bye.
15:17Bye.
15:35Time to call it a day, Grandpa.
15:37My bones have just been telling me the same thing.
15:40Your bones should have told you that an hour ago. Come on.
15:43You're right, Ma. I'm dead tired.
15:45Me, too.
15:48Hey, did you reach Atlanta?
15:50Yeah.
15:55Young boy, you want to get him some quilts and bed him down in the bar?
15:58Yeah, sure.
16:00Oh, a few people wouldn't mind setting your alarm kind of early.
16:03I'd like to get that plane in the air as soon as it's light.
16:05Well, get up real early around here. We'll get you started.
16:08Thank you. Good night.
16:11Night.
16:18Something wrong, Ma?
16:20I'm uneasy.
16:22Any reason?
16:24Got a feeling about that young man.
16:27I think he's hiding something.
16:48Happy birthday, Liv.
17:10Come on, Perka. It's a day for celebrating.
17:12I don't feel right, John.
17:15I don't feel like I'm supposed to.
17:18You sound a little bit like Jimbo.
17:22I just feel so un... I'm so... frightened.
17:28I feel like I've lost myself.
17:33Liv, honey, you're too young for that.
17:36Birthday's just around the corner.
17:39Liv, honey, you're too young for that.
17:42A birthday like this upsets you.
17:45It's not my birthday, John. It's my life.
17:52What would I be if I didn't have you and the children in this house to tell me who I am?
17:57Without all of you, I wouldn't be anything.
18:05Don't pay any attention to me. I don't even know what I'm talking about.
18:09You are upset, aren't you, honey?
18:14I just feel so dull and shabby and tired.
18:20I feel like...
18:24age has taken away my spirit.
18:33Yeah, Liv.
18:39I think I understand what you mean.
18:48Well, we got a lot of kids and did a lot of planning for this day, and they're waiting outside.
18:53Oh, Lord.
18:59Give me a minute to pull myself together.
19:02Happy birthday, Liv!
19:05Happy birthday!
19:08Here you go, Mama.
19:10Happy birthday, Mama.
19:12Now, you're supposed to stay in there and you're not going to do any chores.
19:15And don't worry about any work or anything. We're going to take care of it for you all day, okay?
19:21Sit back and enjoy yourself.
19:25Come on, we got to get going.
19:30The real surprises are for later.
19:34And more.
19:38I think I'll get me some breakfast.
19:40Oh, stay and have some of this. Lord knows there's enough here to feed an army.
19:43It wouldn't be fair, Liv, if they made it for you. Besides, I have to get your present ready.
20:05Morning.
20:06Morning.
20:08Think we'll get her to fly?
20:11Doesn't much look like it.
20:13Morning.
20:15How's it going?
20:17I think I'm grounded.
20:21I'd be much obliged if you'd give me a hand trucking those mail bags down to the train.
20:25Ah, there's no train till tonight.
20:27You fly out of here this afternoon, you could beat that train to Atlanta.
20:30Well, maybe.
20:32I still need ignition wire and copper tubing for that broken line.
20:36All that takes time.
20:38Well, we could order your stuff from Charlottesville, have it delivered to Ike Godse, and you could pick it up right there.
20:42How long will that take?
20:44About three or four hours.
20:46Mr. Cooper, if you'd like, we'll help you fix your plane.
20:49It'd be fun.
20:51A lot of free labor here. Going to work.
20:55All right, let's give it a try.
20:57Now, let's hurry.
20:59We'll put that cake in the oven before your mama gets down.
21:01Grandma, how much baking powder?
21:03Just follow the recipe.
21:05I get to put in the chocolate.
21:07The chocolate's for the frosting. Now, you girls be careful.
21:09You get the ingredients all mixed up and you'll just waste them.
21:12And we won't have any cake at all.
21:14Uh-oh, did I put in the baking soda or a pinch of salt?
21:16Oh, good Lord.
21:18Oh, stop it. Let me taste.
21:20Salt.
21:25All right, son. Now, put it directly under the axle, right in the center.
21:29Got it? Watch your fingers.
21:31Lower.
21:32Give me the lug wrench again, Bob.
21:34Here you are, Daddy.
21:36You people sure know how to work together.
21:38Up here, you have to.
21:40Here.
21:42Put these back in, will you?
21:44Can't take a chance on losing one of them.
21:46How's it going down there?
21:48Well, we're getting there, son.
21:50See ya.
21:53Oh, Aaron, we can't put them on the table.
21:55No.
21:57You girls keep them slamming doors and stomping your feet,
21:59and you'll have a cake that'll make your mama want that birthday.
22:00Who wouldn't want a birthday?
22:02Well, you gotta live a good many of them before you'll understand that.
22:04Now, let's clean up this mess. Mary Ellen, you wash.
22:06Grandma, I washed yesterday.
22:08Mary Ellen, you wash. Aaron, you dry.
22:10Elizabeth, you take the things over there.
22:13Happy birthday.
22:20That was just delicious. Thank you.
22:22Mm-hmm.
22:26Well, I guess I'll just go for a little walk.
22:28Have a nice walk, Mama.
22:36Sorry to be keeping you away from your work, Mr. Walt.
22:39So am I, but with this crew helping, we'll catch up quick.
22:44What exactly is it you do here?
22:46Supply lumber to a few customers.
22:48Mm-hmm.
22:50Cut railroad ties,
22:52pump the paper factory,
22:54and cut firewood.
22:55Make any kind of a living?
22:57We could buy.
23:01Anybody been around asking about the plan?
23:03Nobody I know of.
23:05You expecting someone?
23:07Not exactly.
23:09Guess while that wheel's off,
23:11might as well smear some grease on the axle.
23:13Hey, right there.
23:15That's it. There it is, right there.
23:17Hold your finger. Hold your finger.
23:19Come on, get the patch kit. Come on.
23:26Morning.
23:28Morning.
23:38Just think,
23:40a few hours you'll be up there,
23:42flying along as a freezer bird.
23:44I hope so, Mrs. Walton.
23:46What's it like?
23:50It's a feeling of belonging up there.
23:52A belonging to the sky.
24:00There's wind currents up there.
24:02It's the best when you can take advantage of them.
24:05You know, sometimes you can feel the air rising so strong,
24:08it pushes you skyward.
24:12You can shut the engine down,
24:14it just carries you up.
24:17It's like
24:19It's like
24:21It's like when you see a hawk soaring in a hot summer day.
24:26How'd you get to be a flyer?
24:29Pop was an aviator in the war.
24:32The stories he told me got me all fired up.
24:35Later on, he took me up for the first time in my life.
24:38I'd loved it then, and I haven't stopped.
24:43I guess flying seems glamorous,
24:45but everybody's flying these days.
24:47I once taught a girl how to fly.
24:56He was doing real well.
24:59Yep.
25:01One wheel coming up.
25:03Hey, John boy,
25:05I left a roll of safety wire in my flight bag.
25:07It's in the barn.
25:09I'd appreciate it if you'd get it for me.
25:11Sure thing. Here you go.
25:13Thanks.
25:15You're welcome.
25:45Hey, Daddy, look at this.
25:47Where'd you find that?
25:49It fell out of his flight bag.
25:51I was getting him some safety wire.
25:53Looks like Mrs. Cooper.
25:55Yeah, he said he wasn't married, though.
25:57Maybe he's a widower.
25:59Oh, I don't know.
26:01Maybe he's married.
26:03Maybe he's married.
26:05Maybe he's married.
26:07Maybe he's married.
26:09Maybe he's married.
26:11Maybe he's married.
26:13Maybe he's married.
26:15Oh, man.
26:17Wouldn't hesitate to admit that, would he?
26:19If a man wants to admit, it's his business.
26:21Huh.
26:23The Flying Coopers, isn't that something?
26:25Put it away, son.
26:27Doesn't look like it's any of our business.
26:29And look what I made your mother.
26:34Oh, that's beautiful.
26:36She's gonna love that.
26:38You made that?
26:40I hope so.
26:42You got something for her, son?
26:43Yeah, I did, but this is a difficult year.
26:46I don't quite know what to get her this year.
26:48I know what you mean.
26:50Help me with this, will you?
26:52All right, here we go.
26:54Easy now.
26:56Thunderhead's building up over the mountain.
26:58But it should be clear over Atlanta.
27:00What's it like flying through a cloud?
27:05Sometimes, when you're on top of a cloud,
27:09you look down, they look so solid,
27:10you look like you could step right out
27:12and take a walk on them.
27:14And sometimes,
27:16sometimes you,
27:18you see shapes that look like animals.
27:22I'd like to see that just once.
27:24Yeah, you'd love it.
27:28I'm gonna miss waiting for you to fly over every night.
27:31Oh, I'll come by again.
27:33I'll buzz the house, and I'll do a loop-de-loop
27:35so you know it's me.
27:37That'll give me something to look forward to.
27:38Yeah.
28:08I love you.
28:38I love you.
29:09I love you.
29:33How's the weather up there?
29:35Glorious. I could stay up here forever.
29:38Yeah? What are we poor motherless children
29:40gonna do in the meanwhile?
29:45Help me down from here.
29:47I'm sorry.
29:53You know, I recall there was a man down in Charlottesville
29:56one time, he had one of these things.
29:58He was charging five dollars for a five-minute ride.
30:00It'd be worth it.
30:02Oh, well, maybe that's what we should have got you
30:04for your birthday this year.
30:06I wish I'd thought of it sooner.
30:08All right.
30:10What do you think, Mr. Cooper?
30:14It's a good job.
30:17You do this all by yourself?
30:19My brothers help me.
30:23You and your brothers really get along pretty well, don't you?
30:25Most of the time.
30:29Do you have any brothers and sisters?
30:31Nah.
30:34Is that why you don't like children?
30:35Who says I don't like children?
30:37You sure don't act like it.
30:40Well, I guess I've forgotten
30:42what it's like to be a kid.
30:44It must have been one sometime.
30:47I've forgotten.
30:49It's a mess.
30:51Everything you touch turns over.
30:53Everybody hollers at you.
30:55Don't even get a chance to holler back.
30:57Everybody blames you for everything,
30:59even when you didn't do it.
31:01I think it's beginning to come back to me now.
31:03It's all right.
31:05It's awful, isn't it?
31:07Just terrible.
31:09Come on.
31:15What are you shopping at with? Stone?
31:17Not yet.
31:19The Russians have taken off.
31:21How's it going?
31:23You think those parts have had time to get here yet?
31:25I'll go find out at the store right now.
31:27And I need some gas.
31:29Anybody want to come with me?
31:31I'll come with you.
31:35John, do you think you can do it without me
31:37for a little while?
31:39No.
31:41Try.
32:03Mike!
32:05I'm here, Mr. Walton.
32:07Good.
32:09How did Olivia like her comb?
32:11She hasn't opened her presents yet.
32:13Somebody called here asking about that airmail pilot.
32:16They wanted to know if he was still around here
32:18and didn't leave any message.
32:24City folks.
32:26They're always in a hurry.
32:28All right.
32:36Grandpa?
32:39That's her!
32:41Who?
32:43That's Todd Cooper's wife.
32:45That's Mrs. Cooper.
32:47What are we going to tell her?
32:49Oh, no, that's still up the Walton place, ma'am.
32:51How do I get there?
32:53Well, it just so happens Mr. Walton's in the store right now.
32:55I bet if you ask him, he'd show you the way.
33:02Mr. Walton?
33:06Harmony, come back!
33:16Welcome.
33:21Livvy, this is Mrs. Cooper.
33:23This is my daughter-in-law,
33:25Olivia Walton.
33:27Hello, Sue Cooper.
33:29This is my favorite wife, Esther Walton.
33:31How do you do?
33:33Fine, thank you.
33:35I'm going to go tell Mr. Cooper you're here.
33:37Is he all right?
33:39The dispatcher said he'd had an emergency landing.
33:41Oh, he's just fine.
33:43Won't you come in?
33:51Hey, we should be out of here in ten minutes.
33:56Swell.
34:00Hey, Todd?
34:03Your wife's up at the house.
34:05So I'll see you.
34:11I want to see her, John boy.
34:15She says she tracked you down all the way from Washington, D.C.
34:19You got any idea what it feels like to be tracked down?
34:24No.
34:26I reckon it must feel pretty awful.
34:36Sue.
34:50Sue.
34:54I thought we'd argued this whole thing out.
34:58I thought of some more arguments.
35:00Why did you follow me?
35:02Well, you were so angry when you left.
35:07I thought if we could just talk and not be angry with each other.
35:11I said everything I had to say.
35:13We won't tie you down, Todd.
35:16The baby and I.
35:20Look, we'll make some kind of home base.
35:24And when we can be together, we will.
35:27That wouldn't be fair to you.
35:29Todd.
35:31We've always been independent people.
35:35The baby doesn't have to change that.
35:41Sue.
35:46A clean break is the only way.
35:49I don't know what kind of a person I'd become.
35:52If I was grounded.
35:54I don't know what kind of a person I'd become.
35:57If I was grounded.
35:59But I don't think that you'd like that kind of person.
36:01And I know I wouldn't.
36:03Who said anything about grounding you?
36:08Look, all I'm asking is to keep our marriage.
36:13And to give this child a mother and a father.
36:18He needs both of us, Todd.
36:24Can't you get it through your head?
36:27I want to be free.
36:44Don't you care whether it's a boy or a girl?
36:49Don't you want to know what color hair it has?
36:51Or whether it's got your nose or my eyes or the right number of toes?
37:08I'm carrying life in me.
37:13Todd Cooper.
37:16But that life belongs to you too.
37:22All set to go?
37:25Yeah.
37:35Thanks to you folks.
37:52Let me ask you a question, Mr. Walton.
37:57Sure.
37:59How long have you been married?
38:02Presumably 20 years.
38:08You have got the feeling you were...
38:11Trapped?
38:14I know a lot of fellas feel that way about marriage.
38:17I never have.
38:22Well, maybe there's something wrong with me.
38:26How's that?
38:35I don't feel the way I'm supposed to about that baby.
38:39How do you think you're supposed to feel?
38:42Whatever it is you share with those kids of yours.
38:47I've never been around family as much.
38:51But being here has proved to me I don't feel what a father feels.
38:55With Sue it's different.
38:58She loves that baby.
39:01I don't feel anything.
39:03We're trapped.
39:07You know, there's nothing wrong with feeling trapped.
39:12I felt that way a few times way back.
39:15You hold one of your babies in your arms and you diaper it for a while.
39:18You begin to feel different.
39:26Well.
39:29I sure don't picture myself doing that.
39:33You get used to it.
39:35What am I going to do, Mr. Walton?
39:38In my experience, it doesn't matter what you do.
39:40What am I going to do, Mr. Walton?
39:43In my experience, most people end up doing pretty much what they want to do.
39:50What do you mean?
39:52That airplane out there.
39:55All ready to go, just waiting for you.
39:59You are talking about her.
40:04Yeah.
40:08I really do love her.
40:11Do you?
40:14Yeah.
40:28She's still at your house?
40:30Was when I left.
40:32Yeah.
40:40Yeah.
41:10Mama?
41:12Well, thank goodness someone's come to keep me company.
41:17I have something for your birthday for you.
41:21Uh.
41:27I've been trying to figure out what to give you.
41:30It's been difficult this year.
41:32I thought I knew what I was going to give you, but that didn't seem right.
41:35But I was reading this morning and I found a poem in here.
41:41By a man named Gerard Manley Hopkins.
41:45And I'd like to read it to you for your birthday.
41:54Here it is. It's called The Windhover.
41:56That's a bird.
42:00I caught this morning, morning's minion.
42:03Kingdom of daylight's dauphin.
42:06Dappled, dawn-drawn falcon.
42:08In his riding of the rolling, level, underneath him steady air.
42:13And striding high there.
42:15How he rung upon the reign of a wimpling wing in his ecstasy.
42:19Then off, off forth on swing.
42:22As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow bend.
42:25The hurl and gliding rebuff the big wind.
42:29My heart in hiding stirred for a bird.
42:31The achieve of.
42:33The mastery of the thing.
42:36Brute beauty and valor and act.
42:39O air, pride, plume, here buckle.
42:44And the fire that breaks from thee then.
42:46A billion times told lovelier.
42:49More dangerous, O my chevalier.
42:53No wonder of it.
42:55Sheer plod makes plow-down cilian shine.
42:58And blue bleak embers.
43:00Ah, my dear.
43:02Fall, gall themselves.
43:05And gash gold vermillion.
43:15John boy, those words were just like listening to music.
43:24I don't really understand what the poem meant, but.
43:26I think those were just about the most beautiful words I ever heard.
43:30Well, I think the poem has a meaning.
43:33Uh.
43:35To me.
43:37It means that.
43:39Some things.
43:42Which may seem too simple or.
43:45Unimportant.
43:47Or even just downright plain.
43:51Those things are really every bit as important.
43:54And every bit as beautiful as the most magnificent things in the whole world.
44:03Thank you, John boy.
44:07Happy birthday.
44:13There was a.
44:15There was a line in there, something about.
44:17My heart.
44:20Oh, yeah.
44:22Oh, yeah.
44:23My heart in hiding stirred.
44:25Hey, mama.
44:27Your birthday's ready if you want it.
44:33Oh.
44:34Oh, that's him, mom.
44:52I love it.
44:55OK, here it is, mama.
44:59Dear mama, it's your birthday.
45:01It's a special day for you.
45:04We hope your day is happy and your wishes all come true.
45:09We think that you're the greatest in every little way.
45:14That's why I sing this birthday song on this your special day.
45:21Happy birthday.
45:24Oh, it's lovely.
45:30Welcome back.
45:31Good to be back, Graham.
45:33Make a wish.
45:34Make a wish.
45:35All right.
45:36Um.
45:44What was the wish?
45:45Oh, I'm not going to tell because then it might not come true.
45:48See.
45:52Oh, John.
45:53Oh, John.
45:56That's just beautiful.
45:59It is just beautiful.
46:02From all of us, Liz.
46:05In this mirror, I don't look too bad for an old lady.
46:08You look just fine.
46:10Happy birthday, honey.
46:12Mrs. Walton, we don't have a present for you, but I think I got something that you would like.
46:17And it's down in the pasture.
46:18How would you like a ride in that plane before we go?
46:21Oh, God.
46:22How wonderful.
46:27Children, your mama's going flying.
46:32Come on, you.
46:33Let's go.
46:40Come on, boy.
46:41All right.
46:49Come on.
47:08We'll never get there.
47:10Yeah.
47:18We'll never get there.
47:40My heart in hiding stirred for a bird.
47:43The achieve of the mastery of the thing.
47:46Brute beauty and valor and act.
47:49Oh, air, pride, plume.
47:52Here, buckle.
47:56Today, great passenger planes plow through those skies above the Virginia mountains.
48:01Last year, one of them brought my mother to see us in California, where I now live.
48:06We're expecting her again soon.
48:09And no doubt, our thoughts and our memories will return to those early times
48:13when that era we called depressed was so very, very good.
48:24Mama, did you get your wish?
48:26I sure did.
48:27What did it feel like up there, Mama?
48:29Oh, the air was cold and the wind whipped me in the face.
48:33And down below, everything looked like tiny little specks.
48:36Did you see me, Mama?
48:37Mm-hmm.
48:38Did I look like a speck, too?
48:40You made a very special speck, Jimbo.
48:42All right, you high flyers, time to settle down.
48:45Not me, I'm still up there flying.
48:48Happy birthday, honey.
48:50Good night, Jim.
49:12Happy birthday, Jimbo.
49:42Happy birthday to you.