One of America's finest has come home.
God bless Col. Hamilton and his family.
Another one home; another MIA changed to KIA. And oh so many more to go.
I remember going to college in Saint Petersburg FL as Vietnam was ramping up and hearing the F-105s
from MacDill AFB, an F-105 training base, flying over the campus on their way back to base and wondering when those pilots were going over. Later I wondered how many I heard flying overhead hadn’t come home.
Recently I read a site that listed Vietnam combat air losses by aircraft type. The F-105 “Thunderchief” or “’Thud” lost over 350 aircraft in the decade of combat operations in Southeast Asia.
Welcome home Colonel; sorry it was so long from your last flight to Taps.