EXT. OAK MOTTE - DAY
Describe.
Gil and Hunter in ATV aimed at view. The boys in treehouse, ATV nearby.
HUNTER: How long have you been here?
GIL: My entire life. My dad and uncle used their G-I bills to start a construction company in San Antonio. Couple years later dad bought the land, started building on his time off. We'd come up and spend the night in tents.
HUNTER: We being whom?
GIL: Me, my sister, mom and dad, and whomever of his crew were up. Uncle did the same with land he bought near Vanderpool.
HUNTER: World war two G-I bill.
GIL: Yessir. Dad was Army in France, his brother Danny was U-S-M-C in the Philippines.
HUNTER: Tom was a Marine in Vietnam.
GIL: He was. Did he talk about it?
HUNTER: No. Just a reference to boot camp in San Diego.
GIL: We were there together.
HUNTER: Ruth mentioned that. And that you might be willing to talk about it.
GIL: She mentioned you might ask. We can do that. Maybe when you're back next week.
HUNTER: Thank you.
GIL: I've got pictures.
HUNTER: I'd love to see them.
GIL: Deer at your three o-clock.
A beat before it occurs to Hunter to turn to his right to see the WHITETAIL BUCK looking back at them from fifty yards away.
HUNTER: Did Tom hunt?
GIL: Got his first here, right where he is, from the tree house. His thirteenth birthday. Me, Tom and our dads. But if he ever pulled a trigger after he cam back I don't know about it.
HUNTER: Came back from Vietnam.
GIL: Yessir.
HUNTER: Did he ever say why?
GIL: We talked about it. I'll tell you more when you're back, if you're interested.
HUNTER: Very.
GIL: Have you ever hunted, Hunter?
HUNTER: I killed a robin with a slingshot when I was eleven. That was enough hunting for me.
to be continued.
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