Bud writes:

People wonder how a group of men who knew each other for such a short period of time could retain a friendship for so many years without making contact.  For those of us who were there the answer is easy.  The intensity of our situation forged a relationship like no other.   Those days of being kids a long way from home and depending on each other to stay alive changed our lives forever.  There are a lot of things about Vietnam I would have chosen not to have experienced but today I am reaping the benefits of that year…your friendship.  Make no mistake about it,  you have touched my life,  now and for the years since 1967-68.

You can’t say it better than that.