Grandfathers, uncles and relatives I never got the chance to know still occupy my mind to this day. I hear stories about what they were like and how much people miss them. It’s hard to miss someone who you never got the chance to know, but I still try my best to have them know they are not forgotten. My only wish is that they know, wherever they are, that there are so many people who think about them all the time. They will never be forgotten, because even those who never met them still hear the memories of them from those who loved them personally.
Meghan Herrick
My Uncle Jim, whom I never met, flew the Douglas A1-H "Skyraider" during Vietnam. He was an Air Force pilot with the 602 Special Operations Squadron out of Nakhon Phanom (NKP), Thailand. Jim flew in Search and Rescue as well as Search and Destroy missions in "the secret war" in Laos. On such a mission on October 27th 1969, we're told his plane crashed into a mountainside...
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