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Tomick
#1 Posted : 17 November 2017 09:19:26

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.... after they made promise to each other in a bunker in Vietnam in 1968 as they survived a mortar attack...
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#2 Posted : 17 November 2017 11:36:53

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That is a very moving story indeed. And that sort of friendship seems to be a rare thing these days when most people do not even know "there own neighbours names".
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