In January 1970, Frank Cybulski (Right) was a 20-year-old sergeant with the 199th Infantry Brigade when he was caught in the explosion of a mine. Cybulski was thrown to the ground and badly burned. “The only thing I remember is a gigantic orange ball in my face,” he said. “It’s like looking at the sun and then you look away, and you can still see it.” Frank Cates (Left), who was just five yards to his left, was unharmed. “I remember telling him he was okay and he was fine,” Cates recalled. “But, of course, that’s what you always say. He wasn’t okay and he wasn’t fine.” Cybulski was airlifted to an American hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam, before he was sent home. In the midst of the chaos, Cates grabbed Cybulski’s dropped hunting knife, hoping to find a chance to give it back one day. “That was one of the most difficult things about being in Vietnam,” Cates said. “You got close to people and when you put them on that helicopter, you never hear from them again.” But after more than four decades, Cates managed to track his buddy down and was finally able to return that hunting knife. “I just stared at the box for like 10 minutes,” Cybulski said "I opened it up and pulled the knife out. That’s when I started crying.” Cybulski said he’s going to carve the number 754 into the handle to remember how many men died from his brigade. Then, he plans to take the blade to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. “I want to place that knife at the wall in Washington and leave it there,” he said. #zerofucks #nofucks #stayzero #military #awesome #epic #hardcore #usa #brotherhood