Joey is a young man sharing one of the most difficult stories of his life with us. He starts by telling us about his little brother Peter who is mentally delayed but that never stopped him from doing anything he wanted to do. But his favorite thing to do was to watch G. I. Joe on television and play with his Army men. He loved and appreciated the police and firemen so that when he was at the park and the sun was going down, he didn’t understand why Joey was yelling at him to “stop.” As Peter runs towards the police officers, who have their guns out, and are running towards him Peter has not a care in the world. In this child like mind he is playing the best game of cops and robbers with his hero’s. As Peter plays with his toys in hand Joey tries to get him to stop running, stop moving but he runs with the greatest innocence is in the fearless mind of a child. And on that day as Peter bled to death on the playground after being shot by the police as his brother Joey held him. Peter never stopped smiling even in pain and when he took his last breath it was in that moment that he told Joey that he loved the show G.I. Joe because his brother’s name was in the title. He loved his brother because he was his true hero. Told from the perspective of the older brother with flashes of his little brother constantly present we see the joy and pain of a dynamic duo where one is taken too soon and the other must pick up the pieces to be able to see the light that is always possible even when one light has been burned out.
