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An American Hero Killed In Vietnam Comes Home, And An Entire Airport Terminal Stops To Watch

Hank Berrien
An American Hero Killed In Vietnam Comes Home, And An Entire Airport Terminal Stops To Watch
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On Thursday, everyone at a terminal at the Dallas airport witnessed something extraordinary: the remains of an American pilot who was shot down in 1967 were finally brought home — and the pilot of the plane carrying the remains was his son, who was only five years old when his father was shot down.

Jackson Proskow, the Washington Bureau Chief for Canada’s Global News and Globe National, chronicled the moment on Twitter:

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