“What are you selling anyway?” says Homer.<\/p>\n
“I’m not selling anything but plain old-fashioned Americanism,” says Mollett<\/p>\n
“Some Americanism!” says Homer, following Mollett to the cashier’s counter. “So we’re all a bunch of suckers? So we should’ve been on the side of the Japs and the Nazis?”<\/p>\n
“Again I say, just look at the facts,” says Mollett, tapping his newspaper again.<\/p>\n
“I’ve seen facts,” says Homer. “I’ve seen a ship go down, and four hundred of my shipmates went with it. Were those guys suckers?”<\/p>\n
“That’s the unpleasant truth,” explains Mollett, “and the sooner we get wise to it…”<\/p>\n
Homer pulls Mollett’s lapel flag pin off his suit coat.<\/p>\n
“Ooh, if I only had my hands!” says Homer, grappling with Mollett.<\/p>\n
“You put those down!” shouts Mollett, pushing Homer away.<\/p>\n
“Take your hands off him!” says Fred, leaping over the counter. He punces Mollett into a perfume display.<\/p>\n
Clarence Merkel, Fred’s boss, pushes through the crowd.<\/p>\n
“May I get through, please?” says Merkel. He turns to a saleswoman. “Go get the druggist.”<\/p>\n
“Yes, sir,” says the sales woman.<\/p>\n
“Make way, please,” says the personnel manager, Thorpe. “What happened?” he asks Merkel.<\/p>\n
“It was Fred Derry,” replies Merkel. “He hit him.”<\/p>\n
“Bring some aromatic spirits,” orders Thorpe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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