1966 - 2016


May, 1966, four fresh-faced Marines posed together on a California beach just days before being shipped off to Vietnam.


Pic 1
The four friends: from left, Dennis Puleo, Tom Hanks, Bob DeVenezia (kneeling), and Bob Falk.


Pic 2
The four friends, meeting for the first time since separating in Vietnam, on April 23, 2016.



https://www.today.com/news/4-marines-recreate-beach-pic-taken-50-years-earlier-they-t88631

Bob DeVenezia, on the left, and Tom Hanks, holding the bazooka, in Vietnam.

Eventually, the four were sent off to serve in different directions in Vietnam, where they faced unimaginable conditions.

Two of them earned Purple Hearts.


Pic: Hanks, shown in the Vietnam jungle.

After the war back in homeland, the men went on their separate ways.

Hanks became an investment banker and DeVenezia ran a construction company.

Falk went into retail management and Puleo, home security.

They married and raised families. One survived cancer, and others post traumatic stress disorder.

This generation suppose go 1 war at least. This one wey man go dey cry like pikin because of woman, wey man go dey form woman call himself bobrisky, jay boogie. One war per generation to put important things in perspective.

Aidejay:
This generation suppose go 1 war at least. This one wey man go dey cry like pikin because of woman, wey man go dey form woman call himself bobrisky, jay boogie. One war per generation to put important things in perspective.

I endorse this post with my next girlfriend's left breast.

Those are the kind of memories we want. Not the kind of memories that make us think we were in heaven under pdp

Memories through the eyes of a lens.

Some crazy shit, country with life expectancy of over 80 years, here in Naija, it's only a miracle to find such even at 60 years, these men should be in their late Seventies by now...

Nigeria should just organise a friendly war with Cameron

Aidejay:
This generation suppose go 1 war at least. This one wey man go dey cry like pikin because of woman, wey man go dey form woman call himself bobrisky, jay boogie. One war per generation to put important things in perspective.

The saying, Hard times create strong men, Strong men create good times, Good times create weak men, Weak men create hard times comes to light here.

It was one of the best days in my life,” said the reunion instigator, Tom Hanks, a 69-year-old retired investment banker.

Hanks, who lives just outside Atlanta, came across the original photo in an old album and, after realizing that nearly 50 years had passed, thought about re-creating the scene with the three other men in the picture, Bob Falk, 71, Bob DeVenezia, 70, and Dennis Puleo, 69.

The original photo was taken in May of 1966, when the four Marines, fresh out of boot camp, decided to enjoy their weekend away from San Diego's Camp Pendleton by heading to the beach in Oceanside, California.

“We were just goofing around.

I’m not sure where we even got the surf board. It wasn’t ours,” Hanks said.

“Falk, Puluo and me were machine gunners,” DeVenezia recalled.

“Hanks was what they call a weapons guy.

He had bazookas, explosives, mortars.”

Explorers:
It was one of the best days in my life,” said the reunion instigator, Tom Hanks, a 69-year-old retired investment banker.

Hanks, who lives just outside Atlanta, came across the original photo in an old album and, after realizing that nearly 50 years had passed, thought about re-creating the scene with the three other men in the picture, Bob Falk, 71, Bob DeVenezia, 70, and Dennis Puleo, 69.

The original photo was taken in May of 1966, when the four Marines, fresh out of boot camp, decided to enjoy their weekend away from San Diego's Camp Pendleton by heading to the beach in Oceanside, California.

“We were just goofing around.

I’m not sure where we even got the surf board. It wasn’t ours,” Hanks said.

“Falk, Puluo and me were machine gunners,” DeVenezia recalled.

“Hanks was what they call a weapons guy.

He had bazookas, explosives, mortars.”

Life Goes On.

Drenimarcus:


The saying, Hard times create strong men, Strong men create good times, Good times create weak men, Weak men create hard times comes to light here.

amazing saying!!!!

Evil Americans! The millions you killed in Vietnam will continue to give you sleepless night until you receive your karma in a trillion folds

God bless America...

Thank you for stabilizing the world.. The likes of China, Russia, Islam etc, would have gone on conquering and conquering as is their way...

God bless America again... Semper Fi!

timesup234:
Evil Americans! The millions you killed in Vietnam will continue to give you sleepless night until you receive your karma in a trillion folds

Babylon
Greece
Persia
Roma
Papacy
Islam
Crusaders
China (Genghis Khan)

Have all killed more than America...

Aidejay:
This generation suppose go 1 war at least. This one wey man go dey cry like pikin because of woman, wey man go dey form woman call himself bobrisky, jay boogie. One war per generation to put important things in perspective.

You’re damn right

illicit:
Nigeria should just organise a friendly war with Cameron

. Let the friendly war be iswap, bh and their sponsors versus North korea

obonujoker:


Babylon
Greece
Persia
Roma
Papacy
Islam
Crusaders
China (Genghis Khan)

Have all killed more than America...

And what happened to those Empires
Khan is not a Chinese