Posted on 08/08/2019 1:33:03 PM PDT by bitt
Canadian journalist Jackson Proskow was lucky enough to experience something truly amazing today.
Please take a moment to read it:
I’m at the airport in Dallas, waiting for my flight home to DC from El Paso, and something incredible is happening.
Our incoming plane is carrying the remains of an American pilot shot down over Vietnam in 1967. His remains were only recently recovered and identified and brought back to the US.
As we wait at the gate, we’re told that Captain Knight is coming home to Dallas. When he left from this very airport to fight in Vietnam his 5 year old son came to the airfield and waved goodbye. It was the last time he would see his father alive.
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So sad for the little boy. God Bless him and his mom.
Wow! His son is the pilot who flew his Dad’s body home. What a sad honor that must have been.
Great post. Thanks.
Wow.
A true All-American.
This a heartwarming story to be sure but I am not very surprised by the Americans at the airport reacting as they did. Americans love their military and always have. Even when they disagreed with how they were deployed they never (except for those on the Left)that disagreement and anger was reserved for the slime pols and never touched the troops.
imagine the burning anger on the Left over this huge showingof love and respect for one of our American heroes.
“Americans love their military and always have.”
There are countless Vietnam vet Freepers who will disagree with you. The left’ are not Americans. My cousin got home after his 1st year from heavy fighting in Iraq and he got into an altercation with an anti-war leftard at Atlanta airport back in 2006.
Unfortunately, reading some of the responses to the tweet will turn your stomach.
What a bittersweet moment that had to be for the Pilot. A helpless little boy sees his daddy leave. Later, as an adult,no longer helpless, he brings his daddy home.
That had to have go
a long way toward alleviating their grief. Now they know where he is, and he’s home.
Welcome home to Texas, Col.Roy A. Knight. You are among friends again.
And to your son, Capt. Bryan Knight, well done! I am sure your Dad would be busting his buttons to know you too are a pilot.
“Americans love their military”
During the Obama government shutdown when he closed the WW2 memorial, I was at Regan International when an Honor Flight came in. The airport went nuts!! Everybody standing, cheering and clapping!
The only time I was ever proud of D.C.!
Praying he did not die in vain. My heartfelt condolences to his surviving family. What suffering they have been through!
Exactly. Vietnam vets were the most vilified demographic of the 60s and 70s. Vets coming back to the world landed in San Fran where hippies threw feces at them. Home town newspapers would publish names of the dead and parents of fallen soldiers would often get calls from people saying they were glad their son was dead.
My late father in law was an Army Major in the 82nd Airborne and did two tours of duty in Nam. The way people treated him was deplorable.
The reason America reveres the military now is, in part, because of a sense of guilt over the way we treated vets back then.
Thank you so much for this post. It was very reassuring, in these ridiculous times, to read about and see pictures of the reaction from the passengers and airport crews to this event.
When I came back home we landed at San Fran; nobody there threw shit at me but one hippy asswipe did spit on me.
The San Fran cops told me to make sure I caught my buss back to Camp Pendleton.
They told me not to worry, they would make sure the dipshit got to an emergency room.
I always wondered if the doctors there were able to fix his face.
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