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Captain Knight brings his father's remains home 52 years after saying goodbye to him
A heartwarming story about the arrival of an OAK to DAL flight:
Global News - Dallas airport passengers silently salute the return of a fallen hero (August 8, 2019) And the twitter thread documenting the arrival as it happened: |
Southwest’s Facebook page has the story from the son’s point of view. And somebody needs to stop cutting onions around here. |
Watched the video on TODAY show this morning. Really tugs at your heart.
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Colonel Knight, a Major at the time, flew the last USAF single propeller attack aircraft, a Douglas A-1E Skyraider, when he was shot down over Laos. We used to call them “Spads” in Vietnam in 1965. Notice these ex-Navy aircraft still have tailhooks. (Articles have mentioned he was flying a ‘jet’ - nope.)
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Colonel Knight, a Major at the time, flew the last USAF single propeller attack aircraft, a Douglas A-1E Skyraider, when he was shot down over Laos. We used to call them “Spads” in Vietnam in 1965. Notice these ex-Navy aircraft still have tailhooks. (Articles have mentioned he was flying a ‘jet’ - nope.)
"It was able to lift truly freakish weapons loads, greater than that of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress." - Air Force Times |
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