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Operation Reunion #2 DVD

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  • Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Run Time: 50 Minutes
  • Region: Region 1 Region?
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Language: English
  • Studio: History Channel
  • DVD Release Date: November 12, 2003

Riveting and powerful, his unique series helps veterans scarred by their wartime experiences find closure.



The bonds forged in combat join men forever, but the physical connection can be fragile. OPERATION REUNION helps veterans track down former colleagues, telling how they were thrown together in the first place and documenting their attempts to reconnect.

At 21, Lee Burkins was a Green Beret Sergeant in Vietnam and one of his closest friends was Sam Houston, a photographer assigned to the unit to help the soldiers with reconnaissance. But an accident with a white phosphorous grenade put Houston in a military hospital, and the two men did not see each other for 33 years--until OPERATION REUNION brought them together at the Vietnam Memorial. Next, former Marine Armando Ybarra details the tragedy that led to his being featured on the cover of Time Magazine. Badly wounded and trapped in the rubble during the 1983 terrorist attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut, he was being carried from the scene by four Marines when the photo was taken. Today, he searches for his anonymous rescuers.

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