When Vietnam veteran Ed Emanuel wrote the memoir “Soul Patrol” (2003), the gesture could have been likened to that of a marooned man sending out a message in a bottle. Although he’s had a decades-long career in the film industry, Emanuel had lived with troubled memories of serving in the first African American special operations six-man Long-Range Reconnaissance Patrol team. His tour ran from 1968-1969. As profoundly bonded as those men had been in combat, they’d lost touch in the intervening years. He hoped the book would find its way to his compatriots and if so, maybe they’d find their way to him. It did. They did. And the
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