From left, John Frisby, John DeNardo and Joe Silva tell stories in between picking on each other at the reunion at Michael Jaworsky’s place in Columbia Falls. As the three bicker, their fellow Marines look on and smile noting how “somethings never change.”(Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)
July 8, 2018
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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.