then she noticed roger was a wounded vet .
dave remembers roger got married , had kids and settled down on franklin road in berkley .
he would wonder , from time to time , whatever happened to his army friend , dave .
her name was peggy was married to dave brown .
the two men — who came from the same northwest detroit neighborhood , were friends in the vietnam war , drafted on the same day , trained together at ft .
for 18 years , the two men had lived nearly back to back and did n't even know it .
both men were from northwest detroit and went through basic army training buddy roger watson 's name .
but brown never found out if his friend lived or died .
” it was the same infantry dave had served in .