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It's funny, we didn't have a reunion until two years ago, and everybody was really nervous. We hadn't seen each other in 30 years, all the guys that I went over with -- we trained as a unit, in Fort Sill Oklahoma, most people didn't do that. We all went over on the ship together, it took 39 days, 3,500 guys -- wo units, two artillery units. We went to DaNang and then we went up to Dung Ha. It was the only army up there -- the artillery units -- the rest was all Marines. I was a forward observer, that's why I went with the Marine Corps.

All of us didn't know how to make that first reunion, -- we were kinda nervous just how everybody would feel about it. I've been involved in veterans groups for years, but we never talk about it -- we never tell war stories. We have a lot of fun together, and we all know that we've come from the same place. We were worried about whether that would happen with these guys, but it didn't. It wasn't, it was great.

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