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5 lifelong friends decide to take their friendship to a whole new level by forcing themselves to talk about the things they wouldn't normally talk about at 40. How honest will they be with each other though and how deep are they prepared to go?Real friendships, real conversations, real life. Featuring: Michael Absalom, Jack Freud, Jonathan Corby, Dan Ridgers & Christopher Lees

During the Civil War his movements from battlefield to battlefield were followed in the North and in the South nearly as closely as those of generals, though he was not in the military. After the war, his swift response to Ku Klux Klan violence sparked passage of a landmark civil rights law, though he was not a politician. When he died newspapers reported his death from coast to coast, yet he's unknown today. He was the man who delivered the most valuable ingredient in United States soldiers' fighting spirit during those terrible war years—letters between the front lines and the home front.