![]() I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd.You are old. Or it could mean you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. See, now I'm thinking: maybe it means you're the evil man. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice. I just thought it was a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before I popped a cap in his ass. I never gave much thought to what it meant. And if you ever heard it, that meant your ass. ![]() And you will know I am the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon you." Now. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Jules Winnfield: There's a passage I got memorized. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family and now, little man, I give the watch to you. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass two years. ![]() Then, he died of dysentery, gave me the watch. Five long years he wore this watch up his ass. He’d be damned if any slope’s gonna put his greasy, yellow hands on his boy’s birthright so he hid it, on the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He knew that if the gooks ever saw the watch they would confiscate it take it away. He was captured, put in a Vietnamese prison camp. This watch was on your daddy’s wrist when he was shot down over Hanoi. After the war was over he paid a visit to your grandmother delivering to your infant father his dad’s gold watch, this watch. Three days later your granddad was dead but Winocki kept his word. None of those boys had any illusions about ever leaving that island alive so, three days before the Japanese took the island, your granddad asked a gunner on an air force transport under the name of Winocki, a man he’d never met before in his life to deliver to his infant son, who he’d never seen in the flesh, his gold watch. Your granddad was facing death he knew it. Dane was a Marine and was killed along with a lot of other Marines on the battle of Wake Island. ![]() Unfortunately, Dane's luck wasn't as good as his old man's. Your great grandfather gave this watch to your granddad for good luck. When he'd done his duty, went home to your great grandmother, took the watch off, put it in a coffee can, and in that can it stayed 'til your granddad, Dane Coolidge was called upon by his country to go overseas and fight the Germans once again. ![]() 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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