Welcome home sir---and thank you---all gave some, you gave all. What a heart warming and fitting honor for your sonNYT: A solemn homecoming: The remains of Col. Ray Knight Jr., who was killed in the Vietnam War, were returned to Dallas on a plane flown by his son. Colonel Knight was shot down in 1967 and later declared dead. His remains were identified this year.
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Taken from the full article---which is a particularly beautiful tribute to Col Knight---and all that were part of this journey---including the public who witnessed this at Love Field. I urge all to read it.Bryan Knight was 5 years old when he said goodbye for the last time to his father, Roy A. Knight Jr., at Love Field in Dallas.
Fifty-two years later, Mr. Knight, piloting a Southwest Airlines flight on Thursday, brought back the remains of his father, an Air Force colonel who was killed in the Vietnam War, to the same airport.