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QUICK CUTS: Reece creates an anonymous email account HIGHWEST@PROTONMAIL.COM, and types a simple message... <<When we met at Incirlik... was I alone?>> Reece stares at the message for a long beat, then ERASES IT. He opens an online ARTICLE about BOOZER’S SUICIDE and copies the URL... He inserts the link in a new message to Katie... <<“SEAL SURVIVOR TRAGICALLY TAKES OWN LIFE”>> <<Tell me if you buy this...>> He stares at the message for another beat... then hits SEND. As Reece ends the private session and closes the laptop, we PRE-LAP the steady, calm voice of SEC DEF HARTLEY... SEC DEF HARTLEY (PRE-LAP) EXT. POINT LOMA CEMETERY -- DAY -- A SERIES OF SHOTS On the shores of the Pacific, Sec Def Hartley addresses a small crowd of mourning FAMILIES. Reece, Lauren, Lucy, Ben, Pritchard and BRAVO PLATOON sit in the gallery. Pillar, Cox, Howard, and other OFFICERS flank Hartley on the dais. SEC DEF HARTLEY Until he reached the Spartans. Whereupon every Spartan stood up and offered the man their seat. The crowd applauded the action, but the old man turned to the Spartans and sighed, ‘All of Greece knows what is right, but only the Spartans do it willingly.’ A WIDOW cries softly as she cradles a 5 YEAR OLD BOY. SEC DEF HARTLEY (CONT’D) SEALs, like Spartans, are the ones During one of the first Olympics, an elderly man was wandering around the stadium looking for a seat. He was jeered. No one rose for him. There’s a story from Ancient Greece I think about in times like these.
who make the sacrifice for our country willingly. Specifically, today, we honor the loss of Silver Star recipient Petty Officer First Class Victor Ramirez...
AN HONOR GUARD finishes folding the flag that covered the casket... Commander Cox presents it to Ramirez’s widow...
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