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August 9th, 2019, 11:57
...His Son Flew the Final Leg of His Homecoming.
Col. Roy A. Knight Jr. received full military honors after a Southwest Airlines flight carrying his remains landed at Love Field in Dallas.
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.
I am not crying!
It's just the dust in the air...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/us/colonel-homecoming-vietnam-dallas.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/us/colonel-homecoming-vietnam-dallas.html)
Longer video of arrival at Love Field: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=464134104409119 (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=464134104409119)
Col. Roy A. Knight Jr. received full military honors after a Southwest Airlines flight carrying his remains landed at Love Field in Dallas.
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.
I am not crying!
It's just the dust in the air...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/us/colonel-homecoming-vietnam-dallas.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/us/colonel-homecoming-vietnam-dallas.html)
Longer video of arrival at Love Field: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=464134104409119 (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=464134104409119)