Dear John Page #12

you're gonna be fine,

all right? lt's nothing.

1086

01:
11:43,913 -- 01:11:45,778

lt's nothing. You got this.

1087

01:
11:46,582 -- 01:11:50,882

Stay awake, okay? You just look

in my eyes, just look in my eyes!

1088

01:
11:51,053 -- 01:11:52,816

[MUFFLED GUNFlRE]

1089

01:
11:52,989 -- 01:11:55,082

Keep your eyes open, okay?

1090

01:
11:56,592 -- 01:12:00,358

Eyes, awake, awake,

right at me, okay?

1091

01:
12:00,896 -- 01:12:02,693

DANlELS:

Jakes!

1092

01:
12:03,699 -- 01:12:04,996

Jakes!

1093

01:
12:21,984 -- 01:12:24,452

Welcome back, Sergeant Tyree.

1094

01:
12:24,620 -- 01:12:27,646

Rest easy, okay? You're in

the hospital in Germany.

1095

01:
12:27,823 -- 01:12:29,757

And you're

gonna be just fine.

1096

01:
12:43,406 -- 01:12:44,703

[GRUNTS]

1097

01:
12:54,817 -- 01:12:57,581

[i/i]

1098

01:
13:33,522 -- 01:13:34,614

Tyree.

1099

01:
13:34,790 -- 01:13:37,588

You look good, man.

Thank you, sir.

1100

01:
13:37,760 -- 01:13:39,352

l just wanted

to come by

1101

01:
13:39,528 -- 01:13:41,860

and let you know

l'll be extending.

1102

01:
13:42,031 -- 01:13:44,966

Extending. Tyree,

it's been three months.

1103

01:
13:45,134 -- 01:13:47,068

l'm impressed,

but l'm not stupid.

1104

01:
13:47,236 -- 01:13:50,069

Go home, John.

Get some R&R.

1105

01:
13:50,239 -- 01:13:52,503

Keep your dad some

company for a while.

1106

01:
13:55,411 -- 01:13:56,901

Have a seat.

1107

01:
14:01,016 -- 01:14:03,746

Listen, l'm being

transferred.

1108

01:
14:03,919 -- 01:14:06,217

Now, this has nothing to do

with what happened.

1109

01:
14:06,388 -- 01:14:08,322

But my captain duties

are done here.

1110

01:
14:08,491 -- 01:14:13,451

Going back to Fort Bragg.

l actually miss my family.

1111

01:
14:14,530 -- 01:14:15,690

That's good, sir.

1112

01:
14:15,865 -- 01:14:17,560

Berry and Daniels

are getting out,

1113

01:
14:17,733 -- 01:14:19,792

most of the others are

coming down on assignment.

1114

01:
14:19,969 -- 01:14:21,459

And you've got less

than four months until--

1115

01:
14:21,637 -- 01:14:23,104

l'm definitely extending.

1116

01:
14:24,073 -- 01:14:28,305

Your war is over, John.

You served your country well.

1117

01:
14:28,477 -- 01:14:31,878

You know what?

l might just make this a career.

1118

01:
14:33,516 -- 01:14:35,575

No talking you

out of this, huh?

1119

01:
14:37,453 -- 01:14:39,321

[HELlCOPTER WHlRRlNG]

1120

01:
14:39,488 -- 01:14:41,979

[i/i]

1121

01:
14:48,597 -- 01:14:50,428

[SOLDlERS SHOUTlNG]

1122

01:
14:54,670 -- 01:14:56,331

[GUNFlRE NEARB Y]

1123

01:
15:04,146 -- 01:15:06,171

Mark, on my mark!

1124

01:
15:08,818 -- 01:15:10,342

Mark!

1125

01:
15:20,729 -- 01:15:23,789

BERG:

Where you

thinking next? Huh?

1126

01:
15:23,966 -- 01:15:26,628

JOHN:

Oh, man. l don't know,

wherever they send us.

1127

01:
15:27,703 -- 01:15:31,070

Actually, we're sending you

home to the States, John.

1128

01:
15:32,775 -- 01:15:34,970

l'm sorry,

we just got the news.

1129

01:
15:35,744 -- 01:15:37,735

[i/i]

1130

01:
15:54,530 -- 01:15:57,260

MAN:

He's conscious,

but he's not lucid.

1131

01:
15:57,433 -- 01:15:59,799

And he's hardly

ever responsive.

1132

01:
15:59,969 -- 01:16:03,029

lt's hard for me to say how

severe the stroke really is

1133

01:
16:03,205 -- 01:16:06,538

because we just don't

know how long he was down

before they found him there.

1134

01:
16:07,676 -- 01:16:11,612

lf l'd have been there

to find him like that earlier,

1135

01:
16:12,381 -- 01:16:14,872

do you think it would've

made a difference?

1136

01:
16:15,551 -- 01:16:18,179

l doubt it.

l really doubt it.

1137

01:
16:35,871 -- 01:16:37,862

[i/i]

1138

01:
17:10,205 -- 01:17:11,763

[SlGHS]

1139

01:
17:29,758 -- 01:17:33,091

WOMAN:
Hey, Jeff, here's that scan.

MAN:
No problem.

1140

01:
17:46,475 -- 01:17:48,272

Hey, Pop.

1141

01:
17:48,444 -- 01:17:49,911

What--? What

the heck do you--?

1142

01:
17:50,079 -- 01:17:52,445

Excuse me, ma'am,

why do you have him out here?

1143

01:
17:55,050 -- 01:17:56,677

You okay?

How you feeling?

1144

01:
17:56,952 -- 01:17:58,385

[GRUNTS]

1145

01:
18:02,891 -- 01:18:04,324

l, um...

1146

01:
18:07,062 -- 01:18:12,659

l mean, it's nothing,

but l wrote you--

l wrote you a letter.

1147

01:
18:18,607 -- 01:18:20,541

No, no, l mean, don't read

it now. You don't have to--

1148

01:
18:20,709 -- 01:18:22,142

l mean, l didn't even

think you would be--

1149

01:
18:22,311 -- 01:18:24,142

Why don't you read it

when l'm not around?

1150

01:
18:30,953 -- 01:18:31,977

[SlGHS]

1151

01:
18:32,154 -- 01:18:37,615

You know what?

The hell with it.

l'll just read it to you.

1152

01:
18:45,234 -- 01:18:46,428

''Dear Dad.

1153

01:
18:47,269 -- 01:18:50,102

There's something

l've been wanting to tell you.

1154

01:
18:51,607 -- 01:18:53,632

You remember

a few years back

1155

01:
18:54,576 -- 01:18:56,476

when l got shot.

1156

01:
18:58,614 -- 01:19:00,673

Well, you wanna know

the very first thing

1157

01:
19:00,849 -- 01:19:03,374

that entered my mind

at that moment?

1158

01:
19:03,552 -- 01:19:05,543

Right before

l blacked out?

1159

01:
19:09,224 -- 01:19:11,021

Coins.

1160

01:
19:13,495 -- 01:19:15,793

Suddenly l was

8 years old again.

1161

01:
19:15,964 -- 01:19:18,125

l was on that tour

of the U.S. Mint.

1162

01:
19:18,300 -- 01:19:21,360

l was listening to the guide

explain how coins are made.

1163

01:
19:21,537 -- 01:19:25,473

How they're punched out

of sheet metal and how

they're rimmed and beveled.

1164

01:
19:25,641 -- 01:19:27,905

How they're stamped

and cleaned.

1165

01:
19:28,077 -- 01:19:31,478

And how each and every batch

of coins are personally examined

1166

01:
19:31,647 -- 01:19:36,550

just in case any have

slipped through with

the slightest imperfection.

1167

01:
19:38,187 -- 01:19:39,415

Do you remember

that, Dad?

1168

01:
19:39,588 -- 01:19:42,648

l mean, do you remember

that trip to Philadelphia we took?

1169

01:
19:46,862 -- 01:19:49,228

Well, that's what popped

into my head.

1170

01:
19:52,701 -- 01:19:56,603

l'm a coin of the

United States Army.

1171

01:
19:58,040 -- 01:20:00,736

And l was minted

in the year 1 980.

1172

01:
20:02,144 -- 01:20:04,544

l've been punched

from sheet metal.

1173

01:
20:04,947 -- 01:20:07,245

l've been stamped and cleaned.

1174

01:
20:08,717 -- 01:20:12,118

And my edges have been

rimmed and beveled.

1175

01:
20:15,524 -- 01:20:18,084

But now l have

two small holes in me.

1176

01:
20:18,994 -- 01:20:21,656

So l'm no longer

in perfect condition.''

1177

01:
20:25,501 -- 01:20:29,028

How about it, Dad?

You know, we're just

a couple of culls here, huh?

1178

01:
20:35,377 -- 01:20:37,641

''But there's one--

There's one more thing

1179

01:
20:38,580 -- 01:20:40,571

that l want to tell you too.

1180

01:
20:44,987 -- 01:20:48,616

After l got shot, you know,

right before l blacked out.

1181

01:
20:56,231 -- 01:20:58,995

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