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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 277611" data-attributes="member: 22">1941JR: The Ewing family has always backed a strong military.Pete Adams on Jason: Enlisted in the navy in 1941. After boot camp, he served in the Pacific. Got a couple of decorations. Arlen Ward: Rabbit, don’t I recall how you were a pharmacist’s mate when you were in the navy? “Rabbit” Hutch: Yeah.Jessica Montford, speaking about Dallas in 1983: The last time I was here, I was getting ready to graduate from middle school and Daddy brought me up here to buy my graduation dress. I didn’t even know Southfork existed then.Marion Patrick “Mack” Mackenzie born 23/7/41Invoice from Cantrell and Guy, attorneys at law:“Date: September 20, 1941Client name: Aaron SouthworthClient address: Southfork Ranch 3700 Hogge Rd., Parker, TexasRe: Southfork Ranch Trust”Bobby: This is an invoice to my grandpa and it mentions the establishment of a trust separating the mineral rights from the land rights of Southfork. The lawyer was an old hunting buddy of Grandpa’s.1942Gary on the Ewing fortune: I was born into it. It had nothing to do with me.Garrison on Gary: You named him after me.Miss Ellie: I never knew how alike the two of you were. Both wanderers, both drifters.Miss Ellie: I always thought Gary inherited [his love of the land] from me. Miss Ellie: JR was so quiet, so shy. When I took him shopping, he held onto my skirts so tight. I think Jock scared him at first, and then when Gary came along, Jock just took over raising JR. “Make him a man’s man,” he said.Miss Ellie: You were a small child when I stopped interfering in your life, JR.Miss Ellie to JR: I gave you up too soon. I should have held onto you a little longer.Ann Ewing (neé Smith, ex-Ryland): Bobby said Miss Ellie never had a chance with you. Jock snatched you up as soon as you could walk to teach you the oil business.JR: Daddy had a different parenting style, that’s for sure.Miss Ellie: Jock and JR used to go off together.JR: Daddy took me out [hunting], oh, just when I first started walking. He could find his way through the woods and swamps, across deserts.JR: I tagged along with my daddy to the office — oh, ever since I could barely walk. I loved it.JR, speaking to John Ross in 1982: Your granddaddy used to take me to work with him when I was not much older than you are right now [three]. JR: Ever since I was a little boy, Ewing Oil has meant so much to me.Miss Ellie, speaking about John Ross in 1982: He's sitting in your daddy's chair, JR, just the way you used to.JR: All my life, I've wanted control of Ewing Oil. I never doubted for a day it wouldn’t be mine.JR: All my life, I’ve known I was invincible.JR: I’ve been special my whole life. There isn’t anything I wanted I didn’t get.JR: I’ve never lacked self-confidence. Stephanie Rodgers: Arrogance, I think, is a more suitable word. Miss Ellie: JR has always been difficult. There were times when even his own father couldn’t control him.JR: Daddy always said I had the Devil in me.JR: Daddy, I always tried to please you. Always tried to do what you wanted me to do. Always tried to be the man you wanted me to become.Sue Ellen to John Ross: Your daddy always was an optimist.JR: I’ve never been a sore loser.Miss Ellie: I guess that’s why I fussed over Gary so much, because Jock had JR.Miss Ellie: I always did what I thought was best for my [sons], but what I thought was right and what was right weren’t always the same thing.JR to Miss Ellie: You always had a knack for doing the right thing.Bobby: Mama and Daddy always came at the top of JR’s list. They were always the most important thing in his life.JR on Miss Ellie: She always got up bright and early, ever since I can remember.Jock: It was wartime. Back in those days, everybody went a little haywire.Miss Ellie: We were so young then. Somehow, you think you just can’t die.Sarah Ewing: Our former name was Friedman. My family had been in hiding from the Nazis since 1942.Lilimae: During the war, they had a slogan — "Eat a bigger breakfast, do a better job."Polygraph expert: Did you serve in the second world war?Arlen Ward: Damn straight.Ruth Sumner: I knew what I was doing.Greg Sumner: Sleeping with Paul Galveston while my father served his country?Ruth: We were all in love, the three of us. I married the romantic one, Sumner, who flew planes; Galveston built them. It worked.Laura on ‘Now, Voyager’: That’s what my mother would call a three-hankie movie.1943 Greg: Damn that Paul Galveston. That guy never gave me anything but trouble. Ruth: He gave you life, Gregory.Greg: You may recall, Mother, that that was an accident, not a gift.Paula Vertosick: Gregory Sumner, born 1943.Karen Mackenzie, speaking in 1987: We weren't expecting you.Greg: Story of my life.Paige Matheson: “Sumner” — what, the man was born with only a last name? His mother probably called him Sumner. Paige: Were you born messy or did you have to work at it?Greg: Actually, it’s a gift.Claudia Whittaker, Greg’s half-sister: Where did you get such a sick, warped sense of humour?Greg: Genetics.Claudia: Boy, am I glad Paul Galveston was your father and not mine.Ruth on Greg: He’s always behaved like a thoughtless little brat — inherited from his father, I believe.Greg: Oh you’re too modest, Mother.Ruth: Paul Galveston was your father.Greg: Not to me he wasn’t.Ruth: They [Galveston and Sumner] were both your fathers.Greg: I see. The men in your life were interchangeable parts. Ruth: They were both your father, Gregory. Your genes and your upbringing — you were brought up to be powerful.Greg, speaking to Val in 1992: So what do you want me to do — talk to you about my repressed childhood?Paul Galveston to Greg: I was never there to play ‘This Little Piggy Went to Market’ when you went to bed.Mary Frances Sumner to Greg: Good thing this man [Paul] didn’t actually raise you. He would have been a horrible model for a boy to grow up with.Greg on Paul: He was a lousy father, but he did one smart thing. He got other humans to raise me. For the most part, they did a pretty good job.Karen Fairgate-Mackenzie (née Cooper): I'm from New York. Mack to Karen: I don’t know how the world knew what it was doing until you came along.Lilimae: My daddy told me to take typing in high school.Lilimae: Elwood P Watkins, a mesmerist, who played the old key circuit in my home town, once asked me to join his act. Wasn't Elwood handsome? None of us girls could take our eyes off him when he performed.Chip Roberts: I bet he only had eyes for you, Lilimae.An extract from ‘Nashville Junction’, Val Ewing’s novel based on Lilimae’s life as a young woman: “Verna took comfort in the refuge of the old gable as she listened to the gentle pelting of the rain against the wooden shingles and looked out at the land on which she had grown up. She knew that her only hope was in escape.”Lilimae: When I was about fourteen, I ran away from home without so much as a wave good-bye. I put all my belongings in an old cardboard valise and thumbed a ride to Nashville. I was going to try out for a local pageant there. [Sings:] “A pretty girl …” Well, when Mama saw the valise was missing, she was sure something awful was happening to her Lilimae. She called the sheriff, he called out the car and before I knew it, I was being escorted home. Mama was hugging me and crying and praising the Lord for my deliverance and I’d only been ten miles away.Lilimae: Camomile. My mama always said it was a necessary beverage at the end of the day.Lilimae: My mama used to say to me, “Lilimae, Mr. Right is waiting for you.” Oh, I hated that.Lilimae: Did I ever tell you about the time I ran away to the woods and met the Lizard Man? It was the summer after my mama ran off with the minstrel show and my daddy sent me to live with Aunt Idabelle and Uncle Horace and Aunt Idabelle’s sister Queenie. Aunt Idabelle was an old prude, but Queenie — oh, didn’t we make a pair? Well, one day we found a bunch of love letters up in the attic that were written to Aunt Idabelle by a flier who was killed in the war. This was long before she met Uncle Horace.Val on Lilimae: She never grew up.Gary on Lilimae: A little country Peter Pan who married [Val's] daddy when she was fourteen. Lilimae: Val’s daddy, Jeremiah, he was an awful lot older than me. He and my daddy was friends. Jeremiah was a good man, but he was put off by my spirit. I was a fiery one, I was.Gary on Jeremiah and Lilimae: He was an old man already. Probably treated her like the little girl she was until [Val] came along.Val: I don’t ever remember you fixing chicken and dumplings.Lilimae: Well, of course I did, every birthday and special occasion since before you were born. Your Uncle Billy ate so much one time, he fainted. We all thought he’d had a heart attack.1944Pete Adams on Jason Ewing: 1944, he was thrown in the brig for alleged black market activities.JR on Jason: I vaguely remember him. I doubt if Bobby or Gary would though.JR: I haven’t laid eyes on Uncle Jason since I was a kid. JR: Daddy and Jason never saw each other again.Cliff on Jason: What did he turn into? A drifter and a dayworker living anyplace he could while the Ewings just got richer and fatter.JR: It was my grandfather Aaron Southworth’s favourite gun — an 1892 six-shot Colt, a double action 38 service revolver. The president of the company [had] presented it to [him]. My grandfather was dying. He wanted my daddy to have it.Assistant DA Sloane: You were there on that occasion?JR: Yes. He wanted my father to know he had finally been accepted into the family.Assistant DA Sloane: It must have been a very special gun to your daddy. He probably kept it well oiled and clean all the time.JR: He did.JR to John Ross: Your granddad gave me that shotgun. Taught me how to shoot on that. JR: My daddy taught me how to hunt.JR: My daddy taught me [to swim].Jock: I used to spend a lot of time with JR, fishing, hunting, when he was a kid, and one thing I drilled into him was how to signal for help if he was ever out alone, lost or hurt — three of anything: shots, fires, mirror flashes.Greg: I’ve been working ever since I could walk.Harlan McManus, motel proprietor: Whereabouts are you from?Val Ewing: Tennessee, originally. Lilimae: You come from Husky Corners, Valene.Val: I come from a tiny community.Michelle Stevens: You were from a small town? So was I.LeeAnn De La Vega (née Nelson): I bet your daddy wasn’t a Baptist school teacher. Let me tell you — that was one strict man.Lilimae on childbirth: At home they used to say, “If you keep a knife under the bed, it cuts the pain in two.” I was in labour a long time. Lilimae on Val: I was just a baby when she was born.Jill Bennett on Val: She was born having a hard time.Lilimae to Val: You slept through the night almost from the day you were born.Lilimae: There's a little trick my mama taught me. You got to face the crib in the right direction — head towards the moon and little feet facing the North Star.Lilimae: It’s my firm belief that cribs bring bad luck. Val: Is that a family superstition, Mama?Lilimae: Family? No, I learned it from experience.Val, speaking about her babies in 1985: Mama’s trying to get them to eat their squash like she did with me when I was little.Lilimae: The "choo choo” always worked with you.Val: It never worked with me, Mama.Lilimae: My daughter wouldn’t have won any prizes for neatness when she was a baby.Val: You always said I was a perfect child.Val on treating an ear infection: My mama used to put hot salt packs on them.Lilimae on her husband Jeremiah: When Valene was born, she kind of took him by surprise. He never knew he could love anybody so much. Lilimae on Jeremiah: He never had much love for me anyway, but after Val, well, it was just them … and me. But that didn’t mean I didn’t love [Val] because I did. I just felt squeezed out. Gary on Lilimae: The little girl was replaced by a real little girl. You [Val] got all the attention she used to get. If I'd have been Lilimae, I think I might have looked for attention someplace else — maybe by singing.Lilimae: When Valene was a baby, she could listen to my singing all day. Had no choice, come to think of it. I was always singing. My music always gave me pleasure and I needed pleasure. I needed to feel important, I needed life, and if I’d had my own life, I could have given more to [Val] and to Jeremiah.Lilimae on Val: [‘Shady Grove’] was one of the [songs] she liked best. Laura Avery to Meg: Your grandma was something else. She went to college. She had a career when nobody else was doing that.Miss Ellie on New York: I haven't been there [since] our tenth wedding anniversary.Alex Georgi, speaking in 1990: It would be immensely helpful to have the [Sumner Group] revenue projections for next year.Linda Fairgate: It would have also been helpful to the Germans to know the date and hour of the Allied Invasion. Miss Ellie: Jock was in the airforce. He’d been overseas for years. We hadn’t seen each other in such a long time.Miss Ellie: Evidently, Jock and [Tom] Mallory served together in England during the war. Jock never liked to talk about the war years much.Miss Ellie, looking at an old photograph: Here’s Jock with his fighter’s group in England.Father Mallory, Tom Mallory’s son: There’s my father there, the one with the big smile on his face.Father Mallory: My father used to regale me with tales of himself and Mr Ewing. They were in the air corps together. I believe he was known as “Whoopee Cushion” Mallory in those days.Clayton: After all I’ve heard about Jock, Mallory’s very unlikely character for him to become friends with. Miss Ellie: I suppose politics and war make strange bedfellows.Sarah Ewing: In 1944, Jock, Tom Mallory and two other men were returning from a bombing mission in Germany. Their plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire.Miss Ellie: And it crashed in Holland — Jock told me some of this story — and it landed in a town called …Sarah: Tilburg.Miss Ellie: Yes, and a Jewish family took them in and saved their lives. It was you.Miss Ellie: The two other men died in the crash, as I recall.Sarah: And Jock was near death. Sarah: When we sheltered Jock, he thought he was dying so he wrote two letters which he then gave to me for safekeeping. One was to you which, unfortunately, I lost, but the other still exists. Miss Ellie to JR: When your daddy thought he was dying, he wrote this to you. You were the only son he had then and you were very, very special to him.Jock’s letter to JR: “John Ross, as I write this, I know I may never see you again. I had hoped to have many children to follow in my footsteps, but that will not happen now so I pass the torch to you. The future of the family and Ewing Oil is in your hands. I know that you’re too young now to fully understand what I’m about to say to you, but in time you will. There’s certain things that I’ve always held true and I pass them on to you. Any man can win when things go his way, it’s the man that overcomes adversity that is the true champion and when your back is to the wall, remember that a cornered animal is the most dangerous. Keep your friends close but your enemies even closer and when things look darkest, remember your heritage. Never stop trying. Never let the bastards get you down. The Ewing name and our company can’t stop with me nor you. Perhaps, with God’s grace, I may be back to stand beside you as one day you will stand beside your son and pass the torch to him. Should that not happen, I want you to know that I love you and I will forever. Your loving father.”Sarah: I did what I could [for Jock] under limited circumstances.Miss Ellie: You saved his life.Clayton: At great risk to your own, I would imagine. Miss Ellie: Jock told me that you helped him get out of the country.Sarah: No, my husband and my brother smuggled Tom and Jock to the coast of the North Sea. Others helped them get safely back to England.Sarah: Jock used contacts within the resistance to fly back to Holland. We were still in hiding and each day brought the Nazis closer to us. It would only have been a matter of time.Clayton: Jock smuggled you and your family out of the country?Sarah: He flew us back to England right under the noses of the Germans. He saved not only my husband and myself, but also my brother and his wife and their son Stanley.Sarah: Jock was posted back to England before we had a chance to say goodbye and thank you.Clayton: When did you get over here [Montana}?Sarah: A few months later. Tom managed to get papers for us. We wanted a new start, new identities, but he also left England before we had a chance to tell him of our new name.Sarah: Ewing and Mallory are not our real names. We took them in honour of the men who saved our lives.Miss Ellie to Sarah: So you settled here and never made contact with [Tom] again.</blockquote>

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