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The Teen, the Marine, and the Green Machine

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Teresa Cerda (left) and Cliff Mansker met as teenagers. She was a high schooler who opposed the Vietnam War, he a Marine at Camp Pendleton. They forged an unlikely friendship. (Courtesy Teresa Cerda and Cliff Mansker)

He was a young African American Marine from Chicago, who arrived in Camp Pendleton to join the war effort.

She was the teenage daughter of a farmworker who was protesting the fight in Vietnam.

The Green Machine was the coffee shop where they met and where learned they had more than a war in common.

A story of unlikely allies whose friendship was forged in the shadow of Vietnam.

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