EXT, MOUNTAIN MEADOW - DAY
Hunter and Tom, side by side on horseback, behind Jackie and Chloe, behind Sess and Claire.
HUNTER: Do you mind a few questions to introduce further discussion later about your time in Vietnam?
TOM: Like I said, Hunter, you can ask me anything anytime.
HUNTER: Enlist or drafted?
TOM: I was drafted.
HUNTER: Branch?
TOM: Army was the plan but the Marine Corps had a different one for me when I got to the recruiting depot. Two tours.
HUNTER: Did you fight?
TOM: Yessir. Bumped to lance corporal not long after bein' there.
HUNTER: You didn't tell my mother.
TOM: Never came up.
HUNTER: Do you have a uniform?
TOM: Got a couple in the closet.
HUNTER: Your dad?
TOM: Army, Dubya two, Europe.
HUNTER: My grandfather was Navy in the Solomon Islands.
TOM: Alright.
HUNTER: U-S-S Helena. Have you ever heard of the battle of Kula Gulf?
TOM: Yessir. He was there?
HUNTER: Yes.
TOM: Did he come home?
HUNTER: Yes.
TOM: Ever talk about it?
HUNTER: Not much. A little, once, when I asked him why he never went in the ocean past knee-high when we'd go to the beach.
TOM: Hard to not come home a little rearranged. But somethin' to be said for comin' home.
CUH-LIP CUH LOP.
[WITH JACKIE AND CHLOE.]
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