Remains of Illinois soldier, missing since 1969, coming home

Stars and Stripes ^ | January 9, 2016 | Len Wells

[KeyLargo]

[PROCON]

Welcome home, Brother.

[KeyLargo]

http://www.pownetwork.org/bios/c/c118.htm

[PGR88]

21 years old - and he was flying surveillance airplanes over 3 borders and mountain peaks, at night, at a major NVA exit on the Ho Chi Minh trail.

Welcome home Private Cunningham.

[PROCON]

Didn't we all look like that in out BCT photos?

Dress greens, short haircut, posed just that way.

[SuzyQue]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Ikj1hZDnw

[Mr Apple]

Welcome home fellow vet.

[5150 FREEPER]

As Reagan said, “A noble cause”: the war that never ends.

[PLMerite]

[Gay State Conservative]

All gave some...some gave all.

[Gay State Conservative]

Didn't we all look like that in out BCT photos?

Some of us (during that era at least) looked much less composed than Pfc Cunningham does.I,for example,was soiling my underwear a dozen times a day for the first couple of weeks I was at Ft Knox.

[KeyLargo]

Nice.

Thanks for the link.

[KeyLargo]

Aviation Ping

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Welcome home Soldier.

[Joe 6-pack]

RIP Hero, and welcome home.

It's sobering to think I was four months old when he went missing, and have now been blessed to live more than twice as long as he did. It makes me reflect and think about how precious our time is, and how much of it I have squandered.

[going hot]

225th was next door to us, but they had an actual runway. The hooks, skycranes and mohawks were at the same field.

Would scare the piss out of you first time they came overhead during a night mission and popped those strobe flashes.

Welcome home and RIP to Cunningham.

[Redleg Duke]

Yep, and fatique pants and combat boots below!

I remember it well, not quite 51 years ago!

[Reddy]

RIP, soldier.

[ex-snook]

Amen.

[Gator113]

I was a just weeks from turning 21 and already out of the U. S. Army. You may find that the older you get, the more of that reflection you’ll do...at least I sure have.