Mr. Ballin

Bruce really didn't know what he was trying to get out of this.

But either way, he called James over, and he shows him this book.

And he's like, James, do you recognize any of these planes?

Like, are any of these planes the Corsair plane that you flew, you know, in your dream?

You know, is any of this stuff sort of lining up with your dream?

Again, he's talking to a two-year-old.

But the two-year-old sort of got it.

James looked at the pages, but nothing clicked.

James sort of reached down and was just kind of flipping through all the pages and there was nothing.

There was no connection with James.

But towards the end of the coffee table book where Bruce is thinking, like, what am I even doing here?

I'm like prompting my two-year-old to research World War II with me.

Like, what is this?

What is going on here?

But as James is flipping the pages, he suddenly stops and he points at one of the pages and he says to his dad, that's where I was shot down.

And he's pointing at the Battle of Iwo Jima.

And so Bruce, you know, again, he doesn't really know what he's trying to accomplish here.

But, you know, clearly his son has pointed out this particular fact that's sort of roughly tied in with the other things he's brought up.

You know, he's had this dream about being a pilot who crashes because the Japanese military shot him down.

He's highlighting a battle in Japan during World War II where, you know, the Allies were fighting the Axis powers and the Japanese, you know, could have been shooting somebody down.