Defense Sec Chuck Hagel to be reunited with the long-lost ‘brother-in-arms’ not seen since Vietnam

When U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel calls someone 'one of the best military officers ever', it's high praise indeed.
This is how Hagel remembers Lieutenant Jerome Johnson, his platoon commander during the Vietnam War.
The Defense Secretary has searched for 45 years to find his former lieutenant, who is now a grandfather living in Chicago. The two men are set to be reunited this spring in Washington, D.C

agel remembers that when he met Johnson in 1968, America was losing thousands of young men on battlefields in Vietnam.
Tensions were also running high among African-American and white soldiers at that time. It was a destabilizing period for the civil rights movement in the U.S. following the assassination of leader Martin Luther King Jr in April 1968.
Hagel said that Lt. Johnson, an African-American, told his men that their in-fighting had to stop.
The commander told his platoon that their purpose while serving was to protect each other so everyone would live to come home.

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agel remembers that when he met Johnson in 1968, America was losing thousands of young men on battlefields in Vietnam.
Tensions were also running high among African-American and white soldiers at that time. It was a destabilizing period for the civil rights movement in the U.S. following the assassination of leader Martin Luther King Jr in April 1968.
Hagel said that Lt. Johnson, an African-American, told his men that their in-fighting had to stop.
The commander told his platoon that their purpose while serving was to protect each other so everyone would live to come home

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