It's a clone knuckle. A double knuckle. A knuckle that's pretending to be his knuckle. It's just good makeup. It's a CGI knuckle.
'Cause impatient people get dead before the good stuff happens. Call them selfish too for wanting to be still around to enjoy some fruit.
Maybe the ball started rolling decades ago and we're in the last battle before the end. Battle of the Bulge where soldiers were so close to the end but still asked to die before victory.
Decorated Audie Murphy was once asked what his best memory of the war was. Apart from being a strange question perhaps designed to get a very reticent, quiet man to tell more tales of heroism blood and dirt - his most lingering memory was being on a train heading back to the battlegrounds after a break in Paris and hearing that the war was over.
You don't see it until it is.