Here's One Good Thing for your Thursday: two pen pals who met over 56 years ago finally met face to face. Their relationship dates back to the Vietnam war when Americans would write to soldiers overseas. More than half a century later these two have managed to maintain a friendship that started long before emails were invented.
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