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Colonel Killed in Vietnam War Finally Came Home...

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n4gix

SOH-CM-2016
...His Son Flew the Final Leg of His Homecoming.

Col. Roy A. Knight Jr. received full military honors after a Southwest Airlines flight carrying his remains landed at Love Field in Dallas.
Bryan Knight was 5 years old when he said goodbye for the last time to his father, Roy A. Knight Jr., at Love Field in Dallas.

Fifty-two years later, Mr. Knight, piloting a Southwest Airlines flight on Thursday, brought back the remains of his father, an Air Force colonel who was killed in the Vietnam War, to the same airport.

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I am not crying!

It's just the dust in the air...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/us/colonel-homecoming-vietnam-dallas.html

Longer video of arrival at Love Field: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=464134104409119
 
Welcome back and God bless you, sir. You gave the ultimate sacrifice; now rest in peace. My sincere condolences to your family.

N4gix, thanks for the touching story. That dust is contagious .....
 
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