In 1971 a fourth-grader from Huntington wrote a letter to a U.S. soldier in Vietnam. Fifty-one years later, Kathleen Ryan, who now lives in Setauket, got to meet the soldier she wrote to over five decades ago. Credit: Kendall Rodriguez

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