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1:05:03
Butch...
1:05:06
I got something for ya.
1:05:14
This watch I got here...
1:05:17
was first purchased
by your great-grandfather
during the first World War.

1:05:22
It was bought in a little general store
in Knoxville, Tennessee.

1:05:26
Made by the first company
to ever make wristwatches.

1:05:30
Up 'til then, people just
carried pocket watches.

1:05:33
It was bought
by Private Doughboy Erine Coolidge...

1:05:36
on the day he set sail for Paris.
1:05:39
This was your
great-grandfather's war watch,

1:05:42
and he wore it every day
he was in that war, and...

1:05:45
when he'd done his duty,
he went home to your great-grandmother,

1:05:49
took the watch off,
put it in an old coffee can,
and in that can it stayed...

1:05:53
until your granddad, Dane Coolidge,
was called upon by his country...

1:05:58
to go overseas and fight
the Germans once again.

1:06:02
This time they called it
World War ll.

1:06:05
Your great-grandfather gave this watch
to your granddad for good luck.

1:06:10
Unfortunately, Dane's luck
wasn't as good as his old man's.

1:06:13
Dane was a Marine,
and he was killed...

1:06:16
along with all the other Marines
at the battle of Wake lsland.

1:06:20
Your granddad was facing death.
1:06:23
He knew it.
1:06:25
None of those boys ever
had any illusions about
leaving that island alive,

1:06:29
so three days before the Japanese
took the island,

1:06:33
your granddad asked
a gunner on an Air Force transport,
name of Winocki--

1:06:38
a man he'd never met before
in his life--

1:06:41
to deliver to his infant son,
1:06:44
who he'd never seen in the flesh,
his gold watch.

1:06:49
Three days later, your granddad
was dead, but Winocki kept his word.

1:06:53
After the war was over,
he paid a visit to your grandmother,

1:06:57
delivering to your infant father
his dad's gold watch.


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