A 91-year-old U.S. veteran of the Korean War has been reunited with his first love after spending some 70 years trying to track her down.
In a lengthy Facebook post in May, Duane Mann, 91, explained that he met Peggy Yamaguchi while stationed in Japan between 1953 and 1954 and the pair spent their free time dancing together. Sparks soon began to fly.
“We could dance very well together and entertained a lot [of] people looking on. It didn’t take long for both of [us] to fall in love, less than 6 months,” Mann wrote.
The couple quickly planned to get married as soon as they could arrange the wedding, however Mann was told that he was going to be shipped back to the United States within a week, meaning they would not have enough time to tie the knot….