http://www.tjhirst.com/2008/02/20/support-from-the-sky-a-veterans-story-4/ Illuminate Everyday Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:36:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.tjhirst.com/2008/02/20/support-from-the-sky-a-veterans-story-4/comment-page-1/#comment-47 compulsive writer Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:38:04 +0000 http://www.tjhirst.com/2008/02/20/support-from-the-sky-a-veterans-story-4/#comment-47 This is so interesting to me personally because not quite two years earlier my uncle, <a href="http://memorialhall.byu.edu/vietnam/rrex.html" rel="nofollow">Captain Robert Alan Rex</a>, was shot down over Laos. He had a pregant wife and child home in Provo, Utah, but they never saw him again and my one cousin has never met her father. Although they declared him killed in action in '74, his family never gave up hope and never quit working to support the MIAs and POWs. It wasn't until my the mid 90s that they found his remains and returned them to his family so he could be properly laid to rest. This is so interesting to me personally because not quite two years earlier my uncle, Captain Robert Alan Rex, was shot down over Laos. He had a pregant wife and child home in Provo, Utah, but they never saw him again and my one cousin has never met her father. Although they declared him killed in action in ‘74, his family never gave up hope and never quit working to support the MIAs and POWs. It wasn’t until my the mid 90s that they found his remains and returned them to his family so he could be properly laid to rest.

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