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Army buddies find out each is alive after 42 years

BY MARTIN C. EVANS | martin.evans@newsday.com

horrific day of fighting that separated two Vietnam War buddies 42 years ago this month was undone last Sunday with the turn of a page. While reading Newsday's LI Life special section on the Vietnam War, part of the paper's Summer of '69 coverage, Kenneth Thompson of Huntington saw a photograph of former Uniondale resident Richard Perricone, who...

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