FRIENDSHIP
After 35 years looking for a long, lost Vietnamese friend after the Viet Nam war is over, on August 20, 2010, a retired Lt. Col. Hardy Bryan received a phone call. It was from me. Above the ad that he posted on many Vietnamese magazines, all over the country. He cried a lot learning that my dad, Lt Col. Nguyen Van Toàn, after spending a decade in Communist labor camps, couldn't make it in a sea escape attempt in 1986. Through tears, he told me his memories with my dad during the war and I told him mine as if they were yesterday. This is one of the dry, war stories he wrote in which my dad was a part of it during the Viet Nam war in 1972. --------- Tay Ninh Republic of South Vietnam by Hardy W. Bryan, Lt. Col, QMC (Ret.) Units: Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Advisory Team 9 Third Area Logistics Command, Army of the Republic of Vietnam 130th Quartermaster Group, ARVN 331st Quartermaster Battalion, (POL Field Depot, Saigon) ARVN 331st Quartermaster Battalion, (POL Sub-Deport...