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  • 7/1/2025
In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest | dG1fQ203LVUxZmtIVUE
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00:00You
00:06So tell me you really want this job. I'm gonna be the best messenger this office ever had
00:12Okay, the best you deliver messages the more you can deliver the faster you pick up outgoing messages
00:17The better our chances of beating Western Union and staying alive
00:21From here on out you're part of this outfit
00:23Come on
00:28Dear Homer and I think about you all the time even though I wish there were no war I've made up my mind to be the best soldier I can be
00:38Papa went Marcus went don't you go to here. It's gonna be a long time before I go
00:46Think about my family my father worked in the orchards plain ordinary everyday work and my brother Homer
00:53Just thunder doesn't scare you right?
00:55No nothing scares me
01:00Do you think that this world is gonna be a better place after the war?
01:05Yes, sir
01:13Post a telegram
01:15Please open the telegram and read to me
01:18I'm the secretary of war
01:20I
01:23Don't like the way things are
01:25They don't just die for nothing do they you are becoming aware of the world in which you've been a child
01:32There will always be pain in this world Homer and a good man will seek to take the pain out of things
01:48What
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