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This is the story of a constant invader. Perhaps you've seen it happen perhaps you wondered why why men sometimes destroy the things they love the most here is a story that may give you one answer a tale told you know by the distinguished star Mr Vincent Price. Have you ever come home. Stay away you know the feeling and. The thrill of excitement of seeing again the place you've lived in and loved all your life. For Paul Harvey the day he came home the feeling was even stronger for he had never known until this moment whether he would ever see is home again he had come into the house with his father carrying his suitcases his mother had beaming it is son in the galley. Hanging on to his arm and now the moment he had dreamed about a ride when he walked into his own. The is say something dear like you. It's wonderful it's terrific just like I imagine we didn't change a thing Paul except for the new wallpaper that you picked out in the hospital generally it's monumental So is the job you should have seen these do women Hey now. They are not happy with these bags on the bag Thanks said. I can't tell you what it means I just can't to be and well I can with the future ahead of us deal with the future and speaking of the future let's talk about it right now should out all of you got a little news for your boy knows what news did you remember that Samson job I wrote you about the apartment I'll add to it they opened a bit yesterday and we got it boy thirty stories of steel you it's the biggest one you got for Harvey and company didn't take it too long did you not on your life course we lived at home a little to make it but with the crew are good and you did help me push you well Dad I don't think I'll be much use to you for a while as a matter of fact I don't think I can assure I go take a couple of weeks to get on your feet first by that time we'll really have things rolling and that's when I really need you the most Dad I know you had your heart set on me going on and steel construction business with you but I can't I can't go back to my old job. Well what do you mean Shon I wanted to tell you this before so you wouldn't count on me too much but I couldn't Dad I've had tuberculosis sure for two years but you're well known as I want to stay that way I don't want to spend two more years in the TB hospital had to go back to the tough grind of a rusty to break down again I know what I've seen it happen to other guys at the hospital what do they do make out of your dad hospital Dad don't you understand TB isn't like the measles something you get completely over once you've had them I've got to live with my TB or I'm going to die with a lot of nonsense what do you think you're going to do you're going to get scared of a few germs the rest of your life I'm not. You know I studied accounting at the hospital and. You got stealing your blood boy and I'm not going to pamper yourself please don't bill it's Paul's first day all right all right we're not things right for now and I'm going to get back to the job anyway we'll talk about this later OK maybe I can explain it to you. I won't bother no worry about it Paul it'll take care of itself I'll make you and you'll listen a lot thanks mom Julie Yes dear do you understand what I'm trying to tell Dad I think so you just need time to get your strength back to get adjusted it's more than that surely I've got to find a job without the danger of breaking down again I can't work on heavy construction I know what you'll find something dear but it means we'll have to wait some more before we can get married and if waited so long already I told you before you shouldn't waited for me I can wait just as long as your home thanks to me I've still got a fight ahead of me and I know what but if you'll stick by me I think we can make it. Stick. You know I will. The days grew into weeks as young Paul Harvey tried to find his place in his new. A job he could do without endangering his house the healthy had spent two years regaining but no one wanted an inexperienced accountant who could only work four hours a day to begin with. Somehow his pride kept him from seeking help from those who could have helped him and as his morale went down the tension grew in his home tension that ate away at the result he had made. Me the bread mom he had. Well how do you make out that there are several men dad seems to be a lot of work around but nothing for you or not but the well takes time and it's been six weeks you won't get a job without a curtain business you know never make it I will Dad I will you're better hurry up that's all I got and you got to work going to eat around here. But we can't get married don't you see that until I get a job start making some money but I'm so tired so tired of waiting it's beginning to look so hopeless actually don't you say you love me if you really did you could find some way some way. Bill is that you. By anything wrong you're so late and I wrong. Three weeks behind on the job can't get materials and on top of our lives Carl Jensen walked out on me today form what are you going to do be here what can I do there's not another top student and. I take that back there is one and he's a settin on his duff right here in this house my own. Lazy good for nothing scared of his own shadow It's nice to know what my old man thinks of me Julie. I know what he thought of me I've seen it grow in the past four months but I never thought he'd say it out loud Dad didn't mean it parties upset. And the kid knows it's true but if I came back to work with you and steal all of be forgiven is that it I'd be happy to have you approve me. I need your boy I mean a tight spot yes and saw my. They told me at the hospital the kind of work you want me to do was too strenuous my own experience tells me it is that if I do what I tell my lungs apart end up in a hospital again Julie understands what I'm up against telling Julie Well I understand that you have to take it easy do you but well it's not as if you had to lift the steel around it if you go back you'll be foreman and it does seem to me to. You to Julie Well I just mean this is an emergency Paul just for a little while OK you know when I'll go back. I'll go back and take a chance. It was almost a relief for Paul Harvey to go back to a job he loved but knew he shouldn't do at least he had the respect of his family again he began by being careful as. It slowly he began to forget to take a chance. Wait a minute slack up for free. What's on your luck has one twentieth through this gets around there's. Got to be able to judge the middle by this time like this. Our rights and Murphy I want you to pull my insides out. Now take it away. I'm on your rusty to get your shoulders into what course. Come on I'll give you a hand. Get it right now. Bush. All right she is. Slamming home Chuck. And then one day while Powell Harvey was walking along the spidery catwalk of the steel beam fifteen stories in the air he stopped as a moment of nausea swept over him grabbed an upright beam of steel for support and. I am good sheep zero zero zero zero zero. Zero. Zero right. Blood Oh that's a matter. I do it right no more a bone covered I go on here I know I'm going to my own. Well Paul cut it out. It's not going to help and I Why won't you see your mom and dad had been to the hospital every day I want to have to worry about me from lung doctor Garmo have me in a bed and Pine Brook in a couple of days. In the meantime this battle do fine well please please folks have got nothing to say to them. You blame them and me don't you feel what happened I blame myself I didn't have the guts to fight them or you they just didn't help me. Oh wait for you darling oh wait it doesn't matter if you do it don't nothing matters and much at this point oh stop it. I know I'm as much to blame as anybody but I just didn't understand I didn't know what I wanted to be your wife I wanted to marry you. Forgive me Paul please forgive me. I forgive you Julie but don't expect too much for me right now I mean little time right now I'd feel kind of dead inside. All right Julie I'm glad you haven't got my tuberculosis I could have given it to you these last few months that Gar I'm says my disease probably reactivated about two months ago as he said anything about the X. rays he took of mom and dad when he said he wanted to give them some other tests I think they're here at the hospital to see him this morning that this is good not good at all it wasn't good. And well I know you said you didn't want to see is because you can't mean it you can't know your fault it's all right. I've got Mom what's the matter WHAT DO YOU. STOP IT mother you know what's going on here Dr Garland told me this morning that her I've got to work and do what he calls a minimal kiddish but it's there you've got it too he's trying to get a bed for me and my own book how did this happen what I do wrong. I know how to be X. I know what happens and yet because I couldn't take what you thought of me I couldn't show you what I was facing I like this I had better know for and I'm going to have to pay for your you know all you needed help we didn't give it to you you needed help and understanding the kind of a fight where you have to follow rules laid down by the enemy I know you can't forgive me for ruining your life Paul but at least you know know that I'm in the same boat what you got out and I forgive you I guess we all have to learn by experience next time it'll be different Julie is going to wait for me I can start again and momma wait for you will get well together and we'll stay that way together. From now. Within the four walls of the TB hospital those who fight tuberculosis learn more than life saving medical fact they learn that their medical victory over TB is in reality and true with all the rules laid down by the enemy TB. In varying degrees this arm truth must become a way of life if those who have had TB are to contain the disease. Especially for our youth the rules of living with TB call for a different kind of courage a courage that requires patience that can withstand the misplaced scorn about it. Our youths need our help and understanding in the fight they face when they come home cured from the TB hospital we must help them plan and work out their futures with the least in motion or pressure help them stay on the middle road of life they know they must. If they are to win the final victory over the constant. Or live. Our lives. Narrated by Vincent Price written and directed by Hugh Jane with musical direction by Ben Ludlow this year is a true stories about tuberculosis is brought to you by your tuberculosis Association to give you a greater understanding of a disease that takes the lives of thousands of Americans every year still seeks to destroy the thousands who must live with the memory of it help them keep TB only a memory with the knowledge that saves lives. The.