Attempting to create new column that includes data from two other columns

I am attempting to create a new column "data values" from two other columns of variable 1 and variable 2 yet I want all other information in those columns to be constant...
example:
time place var1 var2
1 home 4.5 3.4
2 away 5.6 3.0
should be
time place datavalue var#
1 home 4.5 1
1 home 3.4 2
2 away 5.6 1
2 away 3.0 2
Any suggestions? I tried to do this with scripts but cannot seem to learn how to alternate the datavalue column between two variables.
Help would be greatly appreciated!

Or simply ...
SELECT t.time, t.place, var1 AS datavalue, 1 AS [var#] FROM MyTable
UNION ALL
SELECT t.time, t.place, var2, 2 FROM MyTable
ORDER BY 1, 2, 4

Yep - perhaps a little too quick to post that, here it is:
SELECT t.time, t.place, t.var1 AS datavalue, 1 AS [var#] FROM MyTable t
UNION ALL
SELECT t.time, t.place, t.var2, 2 FROM MyTable t
ORDER BY 1, 2, 4

SELECT time, place, CASE WHEN var# = 1 THEN var1 ELSE var2 END AS datavalue, var#
FROM tablename
CROSS JOIN (
SELECT 1 AS var# UNION ALL
SELECT 2
) AS whichVars
ORDER BY 1, 2, 4 --optional, of course []

I'm still having the same problem. It seems as I should have made myself more clear and am doing this entire process in ssis scripts and importing the data from a flat file. The central problem I am having is I am unable to have manipulate more than one row at a time. For example if I try to write a dataID row and simply want a straight count for each row of data I have by writing
dim i as integer = 1
row.dataID = i
i=i+1
It just returns i= 1 and does not update in the following row. I figure there is a simple solution to this but again I am quite new to ssis. Thanks