A Navy pilot who died in Vietnam 52 years ago is finally coming home….
Deborah Crosby touched her father’s flag-draped casket as her three brothers hugged her in a tearful embrace on the tarmac at the San Diego airport Friday — ending a more than half century search to find and bring home the remains of Lt. Cmdr. Frederick P. Crosby, shot down as a Navy pilot in the Vietnam War.Deborah Crosby, now 58, was only six when she was sent home from the first grade to learn her father was presumed dead, though his body had not been found.Her mother could never talk about that day, but she gave Crosby and her brothers a binder with articles about her father’s plane zooming low through the clouds on a bomb damage assessment mission before it was gunned down by North Vietnamese ground forces in 1965. The 31-year-old pilot was armed only with cameras, his daughter said.A year ago, military investigators found his remains in a fish pond in north Vietnam. On Friday, Deborah Crosby fulfilled her promise to her late grandmother.Deborah Crosby walked forward, touched the casket and embraced her three brothers. The aviator’s elderly sister, Sharon, and brother, David, also hugged, and he wiped an eye.“I’m just overwhelmed with seeing the plane drive up and all of the uniforms and all of the respect and the honors that he’s receiving,” Deborah Crosby said.The sailors saluted before the casket left in a hearse.On Sunday, Frederick Crosby will be buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery with full military honors and a Navy flyover.(Navy Times)
Welcome home brother may you now find the rest that you deserve.
R.I.P.
In Saner Thought 
I watched this yesterday on the news. Heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time!
Still more waiting to come home also…..chuq
I hope we never stop searching for the missing chuq.
me too…but I fear since we elected the guy that does not like McCain because he was captured….chuq
I fear many things this guy that Russia covertly helped get elected…more than that I fear our elected representatives that will not stand up to his wiping his ass on our constitution but look the other way as he embeds with our adversaries and slaps the faces of our allies. We are in deep do-do.
So many have no idea what yesterday really meant. Perhaps posts like this will help for them to understand.
WE can only do what we can…..too many could care less it seems….chuq
I know.
My stomach got into knots reading this. That is just how powerful it is!
Yes….finally coming home….chuq
This was an important thing to do, in so many ways.
Lessons learned? Hopefully.
Best wishes, Pete.
Does not look like we learned much at all does it? chuq