- Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] I well remember my grandfather speaking of the two ideals he felt so much a part of the human spirit. They were, he said, love and loyalty. During that autumn of 1941, his ideals were to be well tested by those people fate and the changing times would return to Waltons Mountain. It was a time when our brother, Jason, most keenly felt the loss of our grandfather.