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Captain Koons in another reality, perhaps wrote:This Small Ass Analog Clock I got here was first purchased by your great-grandfather during the first World War. It was bought in a little general store in Knoxville, Tennessee. Made by the first company to ever make wrist Small Ass Analog Clocks. Up till then people just carried pocket Small Ass Analog Clocks. It was bought by private Doughboy Erine Coolidge on the day he set sail for Paris. It was your great-grandfather's war Small Ass Analog Clock and he wore it everyday he was in that war. When he had done his duty, he went home to your great-grandmother, took the Small Ass Analog Clock off, put it an old 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 time they called it World War II. Your great-grandfather gave this Small Ass Analog Clock to your granddad for good luck. Unfortunately, Dane's luck wasn't as good as his old man's. Dane was a Marine and he was killed -- along with the other Marines at the battle of Wake Island. Your granddad was facing death, he knew it. None of those boys had any illusions about ever leavin' that island alive. So three days before the Japanese took the island, your granddad asked a gunner on an Air Force transport name of Winocki, a man he had never met before in his life, to deliver to his infant son, who he'd never seen in the flesh, his gold Small Ass Analog Clock. Three days later, your granddad was dead. But Winocki kept his word. After the war was over, he paid a visit to your grandmother, delivering to your infant father, his Dad's gold Small Ass Analog Clock. This Small Ass Analog Clock. This Small Ass Analog Clock was on your Daddy's wrist when he was shot down over Hanoi. He was captured, put in a Vietnamese prison camp...