[fhayek]

Thank you for your service and your sacrifice, Col. Stirm. Godspeed.

[dadfly]

great picture. keyboard getting fuzzy.

Vietnam was my Dad’s last war.

[kiryandil]

😥😥😥

[No name given]

Rest In Peace and thank you for your service, Robert.

[Fiji Hill]

In the fall of 1967, I recall reading a news article about a US bomber being shot down over North Vietnam. it was quite likely this one.

[freefdny]

Great picture. Thanks for posting.

[ansel12]

He had a tough homecoming.

“Despite outward appearances, the reunion was an unhappy one for Stirm. Three days before he arrived in the United States, the same day he was released from captivity, Stirm received a Dear John letter from his wife Loretta informing him that their marriage was over. Stirm later learned that Loretta had been seeing other men throughout his captivity and had received marriage proposals from three of them.

In 1974, the Stirms divorced and Loretta remarried, and he was ordered to provide her with 42.9% of his military pension once he retired from the Air Force, although the divorce judge stated that much evidence was presented to the court of Loretta’s infidelity while Stirm was a prisoner.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burst_of_Joy

[SkyDancer]

I understand his wife divorced him soon after that picture was taken.

[dfwgator]

Thank you, President Nixon, for bringing them home.

[PghBaldy]

Great photo! RIP from a grateful nation.

[PghBaldy]

By the way, he came home in March, and his wife filed for divorce in May.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

It astounds me that a Vietnam War veteran was 92 years old!

I can remember when World War II veterans were in their 50’s and 60’s.

Rest in peace, Col. Stirm.

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

Great photo.

[Romans Nine]

War is Hell

[PubliusMM]

Rest in Peace, Colonel. We’ll stand the watch now. Your service is forever honored.

[pterional]

I wish all Vietnam Vets had the same homecoming. Sadly that wasn’t the case. God bless our Vets.