North appearance a reunion of old friends

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May 15, 2009

Mannix Porterfield The Register-Herald Fri May 15, 2009, 11:22 AM EDT

Once a Marine, always a Marine?

Ask any wizened leatherneck and you’ll get a swift and decisive answer, but it’s not merely a case of esprit de corps that is motivating Lewisburg winery owner Frank Tuckwiller to head for Beckley come May 23 to hear a speech by Marine Lt. Col. Ollie North.

Actually, it’s less a salute to one who shared the same branch of the military than it is a chance for a reunion with an old friend.

Back in the late 1960s, the two served as instructors at the Marine Corps School in Quantico, Va., a duty assignment that lasted some 3-1/2 years, ending in December 1972.

“He was an outstanding officer,” Tuckwiller said Thursday, in recalling his association with the man who ultimately became a National Security Council member ensnared in the Iran-Contra scandal.

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