FADE IN:
Insert: Year 1991 PERSIAN GULF WAR DESERT STORM
AMERICAN SOLDIERS are fighting the enemy on the foreign battlefield. They are dressed in GRAY and BLACK CAMMOS and helmets. They have black smeared under their eyes. They are equipped with MILITARY RIFLES. They are wearing SHELL BELTS and outfitted with typical military arms and equipment.
AUDIO NOTE: (Artillery fire is LOUD.)
A BLACK MUSHROOM CLOUD hangs in the air heavy from the oil field bombings.
BRICK buildings have crumbled partially.
A soldier is being carried on a gurney by two soldiers. They are moving fast to get the wounded soldier and themselves out of the line of fire.
DISSOLVE TO:
INT. ROOM OF A DICTATOR - DAY
SADDAM HUSSEIN walks into a RICHLY GOLD-DECORATED room with a LONG POLISHED WOOD TABLE and MANY CHAIRS. There is a large PICTURE OF SADDAM HUSSEIN dressed in his ORNATE dictator haberdashery hanging on the wall. Saddam takes out a LARGE STACK of MONEY from his the ELABORATELY DECORATED POCKET ON HIS CHEST. He walks to the window and looks out all while playing with the bills fanning the stack. He paces back and forth in front of the window. He puts the stack of money back in his pocket.
CLOSE ON -- The BLACK MUSHROOM CLOUD from the oil field bombings FROM THE INSIDE WINDOW VIEW.
CLOSE ON -- BINOCULARS on the long table.
Saddam Hussein picks up the binoculars and walks back to the window looking out at the BLACK MUSHROOM CLOUD.
CLOSE ON -- His BIG SMIRK WIPED ACROSS HIS MUSTACHED FACE.
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. WAR ZONE BATTLEFIELD FRONT LINE - DAY
Insert: Year 2010 IRAQ WAR
AMERICAN SOLDIERS are fighting the enemy on the foreign battlefield. They are dressed in TAN CAMMOS and HELMETS. They have black smeared under their eyes.
AUDIO NOTE: (Artillery fire is LOUD.)
A GRENADE has just blown up. There is YELLOW and GREEN SMOKE creating a chaotic fog. SOLDIERS are running. SOLDIERS are WOUNDED.
BRICK buildings have crumbled partially.
A soldier is being carried on a gurney by two soldiers. They are moving fast to get the wounded soldier and themselves out of the line of fire.
SUPERIMPOSE:
AMERICAN FLAG FURLING.
LAP DISSOLVE:
EXT. BIKERS RIDING HARLEYS DOWN THE HIGHWAY - DAY
Insert: YEAR 2020 USA
Hundreds of BIKERS on their HARLEY’S are traveling on the highway to the WASHINGTON D.C. MEMORIAL WALL where the VETERANS are buried.
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. WASHINGTON D.C. MEMORIAL WALL - SAME
Bikers are lined up in front of the wall with the names of the veterans. There are FLOWERS placed at the bottom base of the black granite wall.
CLOSE ON -- OUTLAW sets down at the base of the WALL a STUFFED TOY DOG with a RED, WHITE AND BLUE BANDANA tied around its neck.
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