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오늘자 달라스모닝뉴스 메트로란에 실린 기사를 소개합니다. 41년만에 미군의 유해를 찾아 고국으로 데리고 왔다는 기사입니다.
1969년 F-4 팬텀기를 몰고 임무수행중 라오스 상공에서 격추되어 사망했던 데나니대령과 투씨소령의 유해가 달라스 포트워스 국립묘지에 안장되고 있는 사진입니다.
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(달라스모닝뉴스)Airmen killed in '69 are laid to rest
12:00 AM CST on Saturday, January 15, 2011
By JOE SIMNACHER / The Dallas Morning News
jsimnacher@dallasnews.com / The Dallas Morning News
Wendy Hundley contributed to this report.
People from as far away as Japan gathered in the cold Friday at Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery to mark the return of two Americans killed in combat more than 41 years ago.
JIM MAHONEY/DMN Children of Col. James Dennany - James Dennany Jr. (back left), Marie Lara, Elizabeth Marchan and Melissa Harrington - attended burial services for their father and Maj. Robert Tucci on Friday at Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery. The men died when their fighter was shot down on a mission along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in 1969. Maj. Robert Leon Tucci and Col. James Eugene Dennany were killed when their F-4 Phantom fighter was shot down on a mission along the Ho Chi Minh Trail on Nov. 12, 1969.
Their funerals Friday ended decades of delay caused by war, international politics and the difficulty of finding the downed plane in the jungles of Laos.
The men, who were natives of Michigan, both had strong ties to Texas.
Tucci lived much of his life in Texas and graduated from high school in Del Valle, near Austin, where he earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas.
Dennany had trained in Texas, where his wife and seven children were living when he died. Many of his relatives still live in Dallas and Texas.
They arrived in Dallas before dawn Thursday from the U.S. Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command in Hawaii, where they were identified.
Shortly after 10 a.m. Saturday, their funeral procession arrived at the Dallas cemetery, where a crowd was already assembling in the cold for the service.
Since the men's remains were essentially inseparable, many aspects of the military honors were combined.
After the flag draping their coffin was folded and given to Dennany's family, another flag was carefully unfolded, draped on the coffin, refolded and awarded to the Tucci family members.
There was also a funeral volley and a flyover by three F-16 Falcons and an F-4 from Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., which broke from the formation and disappeared into the clouds as the jets passed overhead.
Many in the crowd were also honoring loved ones by joining in the service for Tucci and Dennany.
Suzanne Purcell of Fort Worth said she came in honor of her late husband, Col. Robert Purcell, who was a Vietnam War POW for 7 ½ years after his F-105 crashed in July 1965.
"It's a way of honoring my husband because I lost him a year ago," Purcell said. "It's very emotional."
Pat Brown of Fort Worth shivered in the chilly wind as she waited for the ceremonies to begin.
Once a week for the last five years, Brown has greeted service members passing through Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport as part of the Welcome Home Hero program.
"They are our heroes, too," Brown said of Tucci and Dennany.
Col. John W. Pearse, commander of the 35th Operations Group of the 35th Fighter Wing based in Misawa, Japan, presented each family with a flag that was displayed in their honor in Iraq on Dec. 5.
Kathi Couch, a Flower Mound High School teacher, had kept Tucci's MIA/POW bracelet for the last 35 years.
"It was very touching to be there and, not ever having met this serviceman, but to have had his bracelet since high school," said Couch, who was a freshman in 1976 when she bought the bracelet for $2.
She wears the bracelet each Veterans Day and shares the story with her students.
Staff writer Wendy Hundley contributed to this report.
1969년 F-4 팬텀기를 몰고 임무수행중 라오스 상공에서 격추되어 사망했던 데나니대령과 투씨소령의 유해가 달라스 포트워스 국립묘지에 안장되고 있는 사진입니다. //////////////////////
(달라스모닝뉴스)Airmen killed in '69 are laid to rest
12:00 AM CST on Saturday, January 15, 2011
By JOE SIMNACHER / The Dallas Morning News
jsimnacher@dallasnews.com / The Dallas Morning News
Wendy Hundley contributed to this report.
People from as far away as Japan gathered in the cold Friday at Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery to mark the return of two Americans killed in combat more than 41 years ago.
JIM MAHONEY/DMN Children of Col. James Dennany - James Dennany Jr. (back left), Marie Lara, Elizabeth Marchan and Melissa Harrington - attended burial services for their father and Maj. Robert Tucci on Friday at Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery. The men died when their fighter was shot down on a mission along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in 1969. Maj. Robert Leon Tucci and Col. James Eugene Dennany were killed when their F-4 Phantom fighter was shot down on a mission along the Ho Chi Minh Trail on Nov. 12, 1969.Their funerals Friday ended decades of delay caused by war, international politics and the difficulty of finding the downed plane in the jungles of Laos.
The men, who were natives of Michigan, both had strong ties to Texas.
Tucci lived much of his life in Texas and graduated from high school in Del Valle, near Austin, where he earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas.
Dennany had trained in Texas, where his wife and seven children were living when he died. Many of his relatives still live in Dallas and Texas.
They arrived in Dallas before dawn Thursday from the U.S. Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command in Hawaii, where they were identified.
Shortly after 10 a.m. Saturday, their funeral procession arrived at the Dallas cemetery, where a crowd was already assembling in the cold for the service.
Since the men's remains were essentially inseparable, many aspects of the military honors were combined.
After the flag draping their coffin was folded and given to Dennany's family, another flag was carefully unfolded, draped on the coffin, refolded and awarded to the Tucci family members.
There was also a funeral volley and a flyover by three F-16 Falcons and an F-4 from Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., which broke from the formation and disappeared into the clouds as the jets passed overhead.
Many in the crowd were also honoring loved ones by joining in the service for Tucci and Dennany.
Suzanne Purcell of Fort Worth said she came in honor of her late husband, Col. Robert Purcell, who was a Vietnam War POW for 7 ½ years after his F-105 crashed in July 1965.
"It's a way of honoring my husband because I lost him a year ago," Purcell said. "It's very emotional."
Pat Brown of Fort Worth shivered in the chilly wind as she waited for the ceremonies to begin.
Once a week for the last five years, Brown has greeted service members passing through Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport as part of the Welcome Home Hero program.
"They are our heroes, too," Brown said of Tucci and Dennany.
Col. John W. Pearse, commander of the 35th Operations Group of the 35th Fighter Wing based in Misawa, Japan, presented each family with a flag that was displayed in their honor in Iraq on Dec. 5.
Kathi Couch, a Flower Mound High School teacher, had kept Tucci's MIA/POW bracelet for the last 35 years.
"It was very touching to be there and, not ever having met this serviceman, but to have had his bracelet since high school," said Couch, who was a freshman in 1976 when she bought the bracelet for $2.
She wears the bracelet each Veterans Day and shares the story with her students.
Staff writer Wendy Hundley contributed to this report.
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