A UNIQUE REUNION After 30 Years

In 1967 two young men were thrown together by chance.  They were assigned  as roommates at Michigan Technical University in the United States.  Dennis Sheets, from Lima, Ohio, was then an 18-year-old freshman studying forestry. Twenty-year-old Mark Ruge hailed from Buffalo, New York. He was a junior studying civil engineering.

A the time, their friendship might have seemed a brief fleeting one. Neither of the youths continued with university education; each went his separate way. More than three decades passed.  Then, one day in the Dominican Republic, the two men came face-to-face once more. But something else was at work too. What was that? To find the answer, let us follow the separate threads of their lives. 

Next time:  A UNIQUE REUNION After 30 Years - Dennis Goes to War

From the Awake!  magazine, 2002