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Tombstone

posted 10 years ago by Testpattern
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I liked the movie, but I confess it didn't completely hold my attention. I was preoccupied.

What did those letters represent on the bottom of the tombstone? I think I made out "F.F.W.H. R"

Any help would be appreciated.

There were a lot of gaps and leaps, so don't hammer me too badly, if I missed something obvious!

"If people like you don't learn from what happened to people like me..."-Professor Rohl

[–] sonofberzerk 10 years ago

Not too sure, but my best guess is:

"Father. Friend. Widower. Husband. Rancher."

[–] Testpattern 10 years ago

by sonofberzerk » Sat Jun 6 2015 12:57:45
IMDb member since March 2010

Not too sure, but my best guess is:

"Father. Friend. Widower. Husband. Rancher."

Thanks for playing! (J/K)

That was my only guess too, after struggling waay too long to come up with even that, but I couldn't imagine someone coming to that conclusion 100+ years later when they stumbled (no pun intended!) on the rock with absolutely no frame of reference.

Maybe it's a thing, like R.I.P. which we mostly take for granted.

"If people like you don't learn from what happened to people like me..."-Professor Rohl

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[–] brian-royer-286-857305 10 years ago

Nice to know someone else had asked that question. I just finished watching and was racking my brain as to what it meant. thanx

[–] OIF-Retread 10 years ago

i was wondering that as well. also wondered why he had to fight a sheriff for accusing him of draft dodging in the korean war, when his tombstone says he was born in 1941. you'd kind of expect a 9 year old to avoid the draft.

"I'll do the masterminding around here." -Sgt. Stryker, "Sands of Iwo Jima"

[–] Testpattern 10 years ago

by OIF-Retread » (Sun Jul 26 2015 10:27:24)
IMDb member since June 2007

...also wondered why he had to fight a sheriff for accusing him of draft dodging in the korean war, when his tombstone says he was born in 1941. you'd kind of expect a 9 year old to avoid the draft.

Brilliant catch!

I don't know how I missed that either, especially after pausing the video to see the tombstone long enough to try and decipher it. I confess, I must count that fight with the sheriff as one among many "gaps" I mentioned earlier that I either missed or completely forgot!

I can't imagine a cantankerous old geezer effectively being that young. So, perhaps (and this is a b i g - s t r e t c h! ) the way he managed to "dodge" successfully, was by changing his birth date to make himself too young to be eligible on paper?

(My dad is a few years younger than Duvall & besides having a 28 year old girlfriend, we TRY (unsuccessfully) to keep him off motorcycles & the like too! So, I'm hardly any authority at exactly WHAT AGE crotchet-iness is expected to present!) 

"If people like you don't learn from what happened to people like me..."-Professor Rohl

[–] grizzledgeezer 10 years ago

He'd be 74, which is old enough to be a crotchety geezer. People "age" at different rates.

The DOB is obviously a flub. You should add it to the IMDb listing.