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	Season 9 / Episode 22: - The Revel Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] On Waltons Mountain we marked time by the passage of the seasons. In autumn we'd build fires in bee trees to gather honey. Our lives ebbed during the winter while the earth slept. Spring crocus brought the first blossoms foreshadowing the abundance of summer with its sweet corn and lightning bugs. Generations of living on the mountain yoked us to the rhythm of the land, a touchstone to the strength each of us carries within ourselves. I was to discover this when I left my home full of expectations, only to find that my destiny was not where I thought it would be.
	Season 9 / Episode 22: - The Revel Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal in the final closing quote of the series] I had returned to the mountain once again to find the inspiration I needed to write. Soon I was back in New York City laboring over another book, and because of the renewed courage they brought me, I would never forget Miss Mamie and Miss Emily and their zest for life. I hope that you'll remember this house as I do. The mystical blue ridges that stretch beyond it into infinity; the sound of warm voices drifting out upon the night air; a family waiting, and a light in the window. Good night.
	Season 9 / Episode 21: - The Hostage Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] The post war years brought great social change and progress to our community. But for the hill folk living above us on the mountain, it was as though time had passed them by. They held on rigidly to their old ways and customs, even if it meant breaking the law.
	Season 9 / Episode 20: - The Lumberjack Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] As the memories of war began to fade, our lives took on the more natural rhythms of daily life. Spring came to the mountain and the dogwood and the redbud blossomed beneath the evergreen pines. Erin's heart had been sorely tried by the war and for a long time she carried a secret wound. When love did come to claim Erin again she welcomed it with her usual spirit. It was the rest of the family that was left breathless.
	Season 9 / Episode 19: - The Heartache Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] There was a growing independence in our family as we grew older. With the years we became more individual, often holding firm and differing opinions, approaching life from diverse directions. But let joy or sorrow come to one, it always came to us all, to be faced, to be shared, to be experienced together. When the Waltons needed to be a family we came together as one.
	Season 9 / Episode 18: - The Indiscretion Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] There are events in our lives which would best be forgotten, moments out of the past which have a peculiar way of thrusting themselves into the present. Ike Godsey had always been a man of integrity, someone we could all count on, but even Ike had skeletons hidden away in the closet and it was inevitable that Corabeth would come upon them sooner or later.
	Season 9 / Episode 17: - The Threshold Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] The post-war world is an era of innovation. We stood upon the threshold of a new age which was ruled by sudden change. Technical advancements in medicine, science, and electronics had a profound effect on the way we lived and thought. None of us dreamed how deeply we would be affected by those advancements even though we were close by when it all began.
	Season 9 / Episode 17: - The Threshold John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr.: I've read alot about television. I never thought I'd see it right here in Jefferson County.
	Season 9 / Episode 17: - The Threshold Elizabeth Walton: John Boy? Were you nervous on television? John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr.: Not once I got started. Elizabeth Walton: Maybe you'll have your own television show one day. John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr.: Hmm... I'd like that, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Walton: What would you call it? John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr.: I don't know... since I write best about this family, I guess I'd call it "The Waltons". Good night, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Walton: Good night, John Boy.
	Season 9 / Episode 16: - The Victims Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] With the war over, my family settled down to a more normal routine of life, but occasionally this was to be interrupted by echoes of the war. Such was the case when we encountered a young man who was still struggling with war wounds, not to his body, but to his spirit and mind. Though he crossed our lives for only a short time, that memory would remain fresh with us always.
	Season 9 / Episode 15: - The Pearls Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] Like most adages it is tried and true that fate makes our relatives, choice makes our friends, and it calls to mind a time when a relative of Corabeth Godsey swept through Waltons Mountain like an autumn hurricane, leaving both destruction and alike in her wake. All of this took place during a difficult period for Elizabeth who was entering womanhood, but feeling at times like a lost and lonesome child.
	Season 9 / Episode 14: - The Beginning Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] The pattern of our lives was broken by the war and the old ways of the past became less a part of us when we returned home. So long as our mother and grandmother were there to shepherd us, the church was central to our lives. But without them on the scene, some of the family found it easy to backslide, and as interest in the church slipped away, it didn't seem possible that events would join to bring them back again.
	Season 9 / Episode 13: - The Gold Watch Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] During his long absence from the mountain, Rose rarely spoke of her beau and dancing partner, Stanley Perkins, but I suspect she thought of him often, especially when the radio played an old dance tune.
	Season 9 / Episode 12: - The Hot Rod Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] The end of World War Two brought a period of readjustment for the men who had served in the armed forces. Restless soldiers returned home to towns that looked smaller than they remembered. And families found their sons to be different from the boys who had marched off to war. Some of them were eager to assume the responsibilities of life, while others floundered, determined to make up for the years they had lost.
	Season 9 / Episode 11: - The Carousel Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] When we were growing up we always knew we would be safe and warm and dry, here where we were raised by loving parents and grandparents. We knew who we were and where we came from. So it was hard to believe that someone close to us could suddenly discover that her past was obscure and shrouded in mystery.
	Season 9 / Episode 10: - The Tempest Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] A chill settled on Waltons Mountain that first autumn after the conclusion of the Second World War. Mary Ellen had been caught up in a whirlwind love affair that seemed certain to add a new member to the family. But a storm was brewing to the south, a storm that ended her romance and called her to a distant part of the country in search of a man she believed to be dead.
	Season 9 / Episode 9: - The Whirlwind Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] As World War Two was gradually consigned to the pages of history books, life on Waltons Mountain began returning to normal. Store shelves bulged with food and other goods that had been scarce during the fighting, and families were reunited as the young men headed home. But peace didn't necessarily mean an end to turbulence. Life would always, somehow, manage to keep us off balance.
	Season 9 / Episode 8: - The Move Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] It was a time when our family world seemed to be in constant motion. The movement of people to and from the mountain contrasted sharply with the serenity we had known there for so many years. Perhaps because we were so close to it we didn't recognise the certain signs that an old era was ending, and a new day we couldn't even envision was in its dawning.
	Season 9 / Episode 7: - The Last Ten Days Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] In all our lives there are moments we are meant to remember forever, in every small detail and shading. To my family on Waltons Mountain such a moment came in the late summer of 1945. The war in Europe was over, the worst of the Japanese war still lay ahead. On that hot Sunday in August, an unexpected visitor came to Waltons Mountain, brought by the notion that something was wrong with my brother, Jason, who was waiting to be shipped home from France.
	Season 9 / Episode 6: - The Pursuit Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] Though peace had finally come to Europe in the summer of 1945, America was still faced with the considerable task of bringing the war in the Pacific to victory. It was a time of uncertainty, both for those on the home front and for the troops still overseas. During that summer my brother, Jim Bob, was to face a personal crisis at home, while my brother, Ben, fought for his very survival as a prisoner of war.
	Season 9 / Episode 5: - The Premonition Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] The war with Germany had ended, but the fight raged on in the Pacific where our younger brother, Ben, was still serving in a combat zone. Our family was especially concerned about Ben's wife, Cindy. As the rumors of an upcoming invasion of Japan grew, so did her fears about Ben, fears which took on a chilling significance.
	Season 9 / Episode 4: - The Triumph Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] In 1945 on Waltons Mountain with the coming of summer, buds became leaves and wildflowers painted the hills and fields as no human artist could. It was as if nature was defying the war that consumed the world. On the home front there were shortages, rationing, and a deepening war-weariness that only victory could ease. But the greatest problem of all for my family was coping with the anxiety about those of us who were in the service. One brother was stationed nearby and three were overseas, one of whom, my brother, Jason, was fighting on the frontlines somewhere in Germany.
	Season 9 / Episode 3: - The Pledge Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] In those last months of the war, though death and destruction continued, it was possible for the first time to think of a world at peace. There would then be the small, personal wars to be reckoned with, such as my sister Mary Ellen's adversary role with life, always heading into it, never conforming to its patterns. She was wife, mother, widow, nurse, and not any or all of these things together brought her peace of mind. Something within her still fought, still searched. And for those of us overseas, even though the war was winding down, it was far from over.
	Season 9 / Episode 1: - The Outrage (1) Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] By the spring of 1945 there were no young men left on Waltons Mountain, though with the Allied forces close to victory in Europe, hope grew that soon they'd be returning home. The cost of defending our freedoms ran high, and in our patriotic fervor we sometimes failed to realise that those freedoms were too often not evenly distributed.
	Season 8 / Episode 24: - The Valediction Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] Sometimes it seemed as if we'd always been at war. The quiet of our lives on Waltons Mountain was interrupted daily by headlines and bulletins that took us to far off deserts and island outposts with impossible names. Our days swung between hope and despair, but somehow we went forward, meeting the demands of life in a troubled world, proving at home what the war was proving on every front, that a crisis can make leaders of the most ordinary of men.
	Season 8 / Episode 23: - The Medal Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] They came from the mountains, from the plains, the east coast and the west. During World War Two, America was a nation on the move. People from all walks of life and different sections of the country were coming together, learning about each other's customs, exchanging ideas, and sometimes falling in love.
	Season 8 / Episode 22: - The Furlough Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] There were many homecomings in my life, but the one I remember best followed a long spell in the hospital during World War Two. A visit home would be the final step in my recovery, and I looked forward to the comfort of those familiar surroundings. I never dreamed that I would bring the war with me, and that it would haunt me, even on Waltons Mountain.
	Season 8 / Episode 21: - The Traveling Man Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] There were times when the war seemed further away and life on the mountain went about its ordinary business. My father often said that he didn't have to sail the seven seas, or swim the Hellespont, or soar with the eagles if he wanted high adventure. All he had to do was wake up in the morning and his family, or his friends, or a total stranger would ride up the road and hand it to him.
	Season 8 / Episode 20: - The Last Straw Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] As the Second World War raged on in Europe and the Pacific, those of us on Waltons Mountain were adjusting to the quickened pace of wartime living. Our family was enjoying a degree of prosperity previously unknown, but our changing fortunes were bringing changing values. And so it was to my father, whose strength had always been an unquestioned source of assurance, that the pain of doubt and uncertainty would come.
	Season 8 / Episode 19: - The Inspiration Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] On Waltons Mountain we treasured our neighbors. Everyone knew everyone else and we shared together in the joys and the sorrows of the people around us. We were all deeply alarmed when we learned that Miss Mamie Baldwin had developed an affliction, one that might forever confine her within her home.

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