The men swap stories over biscuits and eggs every week, keeping alive friendships that go back decades, to more somber days in Vietnam. They form the core of a group of 32 men who left Gainesville in the 1960s for the jungles of Vietnam, where they’d fight the elements and bullets from a largely unseen enemy. All but one would return from the war, and now that group is down to 25, with buddies lost to disease and other tolls of aging.