Born in the early 1900s and his earliest memories are when he was with his mother and grandmother in a church and remembers seeing Jackie Maguire crying in his family kitchen and was surprised to see him crying because he was an old man, not a baby; he also experienced seeing his brother cry and wondered how bad it could've been to make a grown man like him cry; sometimes he would stop by Tom's house after riding the horses, it was more like a cave that Tom couldn't even stand up straight in, some nights he would read to both Tom and Jackie who also liked to come and visit, his favorite poem was Tennyson's "Ulysses", he secretly knew that Mrs. Maguire was having an affair with his brother Tom, he had such a real moment for him when he played football with the boys at his school and he was prasied by all of them and that's when he realized that that was one of the best moments of his life and it was bound to end but it helped him reestablish that life has a meaning; his mother died when he was nineteen, he didn't like how his family lived based on survival rather than fascination, he didn't cry at his mother's funeral, he read Ulysses all the time, he was married to a woman named Ella but would cheat on her with Amy, he had turned into a war hero, but was upset how the people were starting to see him like not appreciating him as a whole, he also got involved wirh Lynette and ranted to her about how he had only become a name to the public, he has come across Japanese engineers who have forced him to pave a way to the other prisoners of war, he reads about the Death Railway and all that can go wrong like the man deaths, he was intrigued by poems that were written in Japanese that helped him relate to the line of the railway, he is a womanizer and successful surgeon