Suspected Remains of U.S. Soldier Flown Home
From Times Wire Reports
The suspected remains of a U.S. soldier killed in the Vietnam War were flown home, four decades after U.S. troops first landed in the country to fight.
Under rainy skies, a U.S. military honor guard loaded a flag-draped aluminum coffin onto an Air Force C-130 at Da Nang International Airport, in central Vietnam, before it headed to a forensics laboratory in Hawaii for further identification.
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