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  • 248 — almost home, then suddenly gone

    12/12/2005 6:27:05 PM PST · by mark502inf · 12 replies · 1,136+ views
    Lexington Herald-Leader ^ | 12 December 2005 | By Ryan Lenz
    The words still turn stomachs 20 years later: "No survivors." Malinda Parris was preparing to welcome her husband home for the holidays from a mission in Egypt when she first heard them. She had decorated the house, baked wildly to fill the kitchen with his favorite foods and was dressing to go to a homecoming ceremony at Fort Campbell. All that stopped when the television flashed with news that would change her life. A plane carrying her husband, Rudy, an Army pilot, and 247 other soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division home from a peacekeeping mission in the Sinai had...