Then when he had done his duty, he went home to your great- grandmother, took the watch off his wrist and put it in an ol' coffee can. Your great-granddaddy wore that watch every day he was in the war. You see, up until then, people just carried pocket watches. It was your great-granddaddy's war watch, made by the first company to ever make wrist watches. It was bought by private Doughboy Ernie Coolidge the day he set sail for Paris. It was bought during the First World War in a little general store in Knoxville, Tennessee. KOONS This watch I got here was first purchased by your great-granddaddy. The Captain pulls a gold wrist watch out of his pocket. But the way it worked out is I'm talkin' to you, Butch. If it had been me who had not made it, Major Coolidge would be talkin' right now to my son Jim. Hopefully, you'll never have to experience this yourself, but when two men are in a situation like me and your Daddy were, for as long as we were, you take on certain responsibilities of the other. We were in that Hanoi pit of hell over five years together. See, I was a good friend of your Daddy's. When Koons speaks, he speaks with a slight Texas accent. KOONS steps inside the room toward the little boy and bends down on one knee to bring him even with the boy's eyeline. Now do you remember when I told you your daddy died in a P.O.W. The CAMERA is the perspective of a five-year old boy. Next to her is a man dressed in the uniform of an American Air Force officer. BUTCH'S MOTHER, 35ish, stands in the doorway leading into the living room. BUTCH'S POV A- We're in the living room of a modest two bedroom house in Alhambra, California, in the year 1972.
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