Absolute best friend from HS passed from cancer a while back, Stayed friends til the end. Next two in line? Still such good friends that a few years back, we spent a week hanging at one guys camp up near the lake from on Golden Pond. just hung and drank and ate and swam.
Not from high school, but not long after, literally the year after high school, guy that I went though AO, Aircrew, SERE and crew position school with before going our separate ways in the Navy, staying in loose touch that whole time. Ended up taking identical jobs working together for six years. He's my brother from another mother, closer to me than either of my bio brothers. We live about three miles apart, which those two young guys could have never imagined.