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Columbia Falls salutes veterans

Brenda Ahearn | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 5 months AGO
by Brenda Ahearn
| November 11, 2013 6:30 PM

Students, staff and visitors stand for the playing of the national anthem at the Veterans Day program at Columbia Falls High School Monday, Nov. 11. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)

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July 8, 2018 2 a.m.

Vietnam veterans rekindle lost friendships

Gathered together under a perfect blue sky, a group of Marines shared smiles and told tales on a long-awaited Sunday afternoon in Columbia Falls. Next to the camp fire, James Cooper, aka “Coop,” stood up to tell the story of how he pulled the wool over “Hawk’s” eyes with a complete piece of fiction about his first wife and the mafia and “an offer he couldn’t refuse.” As the crowd leaned in close they were all smiles (except for Hawk) as the yarn unwound.

Vietnam veterans rekindle lost friendships
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Vietnam veterans rekindle lost friendships

Gathered together under a perfect blue sky, a group of Marines shared smiles and told tales on a long-awaited Sunday afternoon in Columbia Falls. Next to the camp fire, James Cooper, aka “Coop,” stood up to tell the story of how he pulled the wool over “Hawk’s” eyes with a complete piece of fiction about his first wife and the mafia and “an offer he couldn’t refuse.” As the crowd leaned in close they were all smiles (except for Hawk) as the yarn unwound.

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