Vietnam vets reunite after 40 years

Their hair has grayed. They are 40 years older. Time has handed them four decades of life filled with trials and triumphs, children and grandchildren. By a twist of fate, a coincidence or maybe divine intervention two Vietnam veterans came together over a table in the Newton American Legion and shared everything life had dealt them one recent afternoon. Tony Schutty of Newton and Alan Rhoades of Galesburg, Ill., had a mini-reunion on March 29, 40 years after they had last seen each other in the South Vietnam province of Quangtri in a helicopter crash. “It was very goose-bumpy,” said Rhoades of how the reunion came about. Schutty, who has lived in Newton his whole life, stopped in to the American Legion and struck up a conversation with a ma