It's only by chance and not by choice that Punchy is one of the last to link hands. He's wholeheartedly committed, as devoted to this action as he is to heroism, to religion, to Joan, to the people of this country he has adopted because they first adopted him.

He may never have known what it meant to be a hero had he not come here. He might not have bled and cried and struggled and overcome without the horrors and majesty of the rebellion and the Games. He's forged in fires of Panem now, even if the original metal was from some other Earth.

He grabs Kurloz' hand and squeezes.