This was your great grandfather's war watch and he wore it every day he was in that war. It was bought by private Erine Coolidge on the day he set sail for Paris. Up 'til then people just carried pocket watches. It was bought in a little general store in Knoxville, Tennessee made by the first company to ever make wristwatches. This watch I got here was first purchased by your great grandfather during the First World War. The way it turned out, I'm talking to you, Butch. If it'd been me who'd not made it, Major Coolidge would be talking 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 dad were for as long as we were, you take on certain responsibilities on the other. We were in that Hanoi pit of hell together over five years.
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