
Bruce and L.V. Reunite
Clip: Season 9 Episode 901 | 2m 38sVideo has Closed Captions
Two veterans are reunited after decades of searching for one another.
Two Vietnam War veterans are reunited after decades of searching for one another.
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Bruce and L.V. Reunite
Clip: Season 9 Episode 901 | 2m 38sVideo has Closed Captions
Two Vietnam War veterans are reunited after decades of searching for one another.
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- Mm mm.
[can thunks] We cool.
[man laughs] [quiet music in the background] Hey.
Yeah, where you at, L.V.?
[Bruce mutters] [phone clatters] Damn, L.V.
[L.V.
laughs] Just #*#*#*#* the fan, is that you?
[L.V.
laughing] - Hey L.V., oh my God.
- Yeah.
Man, I've been lookin' for you 1001 years.
Every time I've been to California, I'm trying to find you.
Oh my God.
- Oh L.V., awesome.
Hey, my bucket list is almost full, man.
[L.V.
laughs] Yeah.
- I've been trying to find ya.
Oh, this is my daughter.
- Hi.
- Oh, how are you?
It was kind of overwhelming.
What do you say, he's back from the dead?
- And this is my wife.
- Algene.
- Algene.
- Algene.
- It was so amazing, it made my day.
[crying] I'm sorry.
Man, I looked for you, I looked for you.
I really did.
- [Algene] Yeah, he's been looking for you.
Bruce, he seemed happy, but sad, you know, closed off.
- [L.V.]
He had changed a whole lot.
Like he aged more than me and he was still thinking about the war.
He need to get out more often, because you know, you just can't sit in that house all day.
It'll run your crazy.
- I've kept stressing, you know, that you really should come and visit.
And he seemed kind of skeptical then, eh.
- [L.V.]
I want him to come see Birmingham so I can show him my lifestyle now.
Get out, enjoy life.
- [Bruce] This thing ready, man.
- [L.V.]
Yeah, yeah.
- [Bruce] You walk with it, you might get shot.
[group laughs] - Then he brought up, he didn't have anyone to watch the cat, you know?
And I heard the music playing in the background, you know, like the violin, like, yeah, okay, here we come with all the excuses.
So [speaks foreign language] I really didn't think he was coming.
[gentle strumming music] [plane engine humming] [ambient music]
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An Asian-American veteran of the Vietnam War searches for the soldier who saved his life. (37s)
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