Recovery of airman's remains in Vietnam a bittersweet ending

Recovery of airman's remains in Vietnam a bittersweet ending

(EXCERPT) By MARK COLLETTE Copyright 2003 Tyler Morning Telegraph

David Poole traveled to Hawaii to pick up his father's remains, and
the pieces of a Psalm found near the airman's crash site in Vietnam.

For Poole and his family, the trip marked a bittersweet homecoming,
one that seals an end to nearly three decades of hope that a husband,
brother and father of five could still be alive. They buried him last
weekend.

But with these remains, among the first identified through a new
method of DNA testing, and with the personal artifacts found at the
bottom of a small pond near Hanoi comes a kind of closure most
survivors of missing-in-action soldiers never enjoy.

Just before a surface-to-air missile blasted a hole through Charlie
Poole's B-52 bomber, the gunner recorded a final transmission over the
plane's intercom: "That's close enough."

Then another missile exploded, setting the...

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