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I was working on my masters at VT when I got called up, got the letter

walking across campus to give copies of orders to withdraw, walked right into Frank Beamer, first time I had a private conversation with him, asked why I looked so serious when I told him, he chatted and thanked me for my service. When we went to his last TTL I took my youngest son and my son asked about it, he said he remembered, wonder if he really did. Had a good story, while we were prepping arty to get the bad guys.

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Posted: 01/16/2020 at 1:28PM

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