there is smith and wallingford.72 both were badly injured and captured after the brutal battle -- >> an explosion went off. i felt like half my had been blown away. i was agnostic before vietnam. you talk about conversions, you're looking at one. >> i only was the guy that new look at the got captured, that only happened to losers. in a k round got me in the shin, knocked me down out of the way of rpg that was headed at my chest. >> they were held in bamboo tiger cages. >> explain to me what a tiger cages? >> heavy ribbon to the zoo? see animals in cages. they just put these logs, five by six, five by five into a cage and a little door you had to bend down to get in. >> held in those cages because they would not do as they were told. >> we made no statements, we wrote no letters, we may know broadcasts. not one. >> 50 years on these men are grateful. >> every day is a great day, i don't care what the weather is like outside. >> and no regrets. >> major retired mark -- >> smith and wallingford live thousands of miles

there's smith and wallingford in 1972.ter the brutal b battle. >> the explosion went off. i was an agnostic before i went to vietnam. heard of full conversions? you're looking at one. >> i'm the guy who he'd never get captured because that only happened to losers. ak round hit me in the shin, went off behind me and knocked me out. >> reporter: they were held in bamboo tiger cages. >> explain to me what a tiger cage is. >> have you ever been to a zoo and seen animals in cages? they put these logs, 5 by 6, 5 by 5 into a cage. a little door you had to bend down to get in. >> reporter: held in those cages because they would not do as they were told. >> we made no statements, we wrote no letters, we made no broadcasts, not one. >> 50 years on these men are grateful. >> every day is a great day. i don't care what the weather is like outside. >> major retired mark smith, that's what i do. >> smith and wallingford are clearly very different people and they've led very different lives since veet nah. smith lives in thailand, his en

smith in thailand, wallingford in texas.ith their lives since vietnam. but it was really interesting to see their interaction. they had been apart for so long but having gone through such an intense experience together, there is an ease of familiarity still between them. and that is shown because they laugh a lot together. today we should also remember the 58,220 american service men who died in vietnam and all other victims of war. nick watt, cnn, los angeles. >>> to sports now. the celtics were trying to become the first nba team to ever come back from an 0-3 deficit, but the heat denying them history. andy scholes has the bleacher repor report. >> jimmy butler said after the loss that you will keep getting the same test until you pass it. despite losing three in a row, butler was kconfident his heat would still get it done. boston fans were ex-static for a game seven at home. the celtics fourth team ever to go down 0-3 and force a game seven, first to have it at home, but they didn't show up at all. jayson tatum turned hi