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An Air Force honor guard team from McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., participates in a burial ceremony honoring Maj. Bruce Lawrence Sept. 24, 2011 at a cemetery in Easton, Pa., approximately 43 years after his aircraft was shot down in Vietnam. Lawrence’s remains were recovered and positively identified through the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command. (U.S. Air Force photo/2nd Lt. Michael Gibson)


Fallen Airman honored over four decades later

An Air Force honor guard team from McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., participates in a burial ceremony honoring Maj. Bruce Lawrence Sept. 24, 2011 at a cemetery in Easton, Pa., approximately 43 years after his aircraft was shot down in Vietnam. Lawrence’s remains were recovered and positively identified through the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command. (U.S. Air Force photo/2nd Lt. Michael Gibson)

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Family and friends of Col. Francis J. McGouldrick Jr. pay tribute to him as he is laid to rest Dec. 13, 2013, at Arlington National Cemetery, Va. McGouldrick was missing in action since 1968 when his plane collided with another plane. His remains were found in a remote jungle in Laos. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Nesha Humes)
Family and friends of Col. Francis McGouldrick Jr. gather for a celebration of life ceremony Dec. 13, 2013, at the Air Force Memorial, in Arlington, Va. McGouldrick Jr. was declared missing in action during his service in Laos following a mid-air collision while serving as the navigator on a B-57 Canberra on Dec. 13, 1968. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Carlin Leslie)
U.S. Air Force Honor guardsmen carry Col. Francis J. McGouldrick Jr.’s casket to his final resting place Dec. 13, 2013, at Arlington National Cemetery, Va. McGouldrick was missing in action since 1968 when his plane collided with another plane. His remains were found in a remote jungle in Laos. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Nesha Humes)
A U.S. Air Force Honor guardsman holds the Prisoner of War Flag during a funeral honoring Col. Francis J. McGouldrick Dec. 13, 2013, at Arlington National Cemetery, Va. McGouldrick was laid to rest after being mission in action for 45 years. McGouldrick’s remains were found in a remote jungle in Laos. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Nesha Humes)
Norm Weaver, bagpiper, gives a performance during Maj. Troy Gilberts??? remembrance funeral at Arlington Cemetery, Dec. 11, 2013. Gilbert was an F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot whose aircraft crashed on Nov. 27, 2006 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Carlin Leslie)
A member of the U. S. Air Force Honor Guard carries the recently recovered remains of Maj. Troy Gilbert, during a remembrance funeral seven years to the day of his first military burial at Arlington Cemetery, Dec. 11, 2013. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Carlin Leslie)
Ginger Gilbert Ravella kneels next to her late husband???s Maj Troy Gilbert, remains, during his remembrance funeral at Arlington Cemetery, Dec. 11, 2013. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Carlin Leslie)
Gen. Robin Rand, Air Education and Training Command commander, speaks with Ginger Gilbert Ravella, after her late husband???s, Maj. Troy Gilbert, remembrance funeral at Arlington Cemetery, Dec. 11, 2013. Gilbert was at one time an executive officer for Rand and had flown with him in the past. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Carlin Leslie)
Family, friends and U.S. Air Force members attend the remembrance funeral of Maj. Troy Gilbert at Arlington Cemetery, Dec. 11, 2013. Gilbert was an F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot whose aircraft crashed on Nov. 27, 2006 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Carlin Leslie)
Ginger Gilbert Ravella, speaks during her late husband, Maj. Troy Gilberts??? remembrance funeral at Arlington Cemetery, Dec. 11, 2013. Gilbert was an F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot whose aircraft crashed on Nov. 27, 2006 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Carlin Leslie)
Danielle Van Orden talks about her role in past conflicts during the POW/ MIA Remembrance ceremony in the atrium of the Charles C. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs Sept. 20. Van Orden and Ruben Garza, both assigned to the past conflicts branch, spoke during the ceremony talking about their part in working with Air Force families of those identified after being missing in action. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Laura Beckley)
Col. John Devillier, Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations commander, Dover Air Force Base, Del., rubs the name of Capt. Virgil K. Meroney III, from an etching on a wall at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 15. Devillier gave the etching to the Meroney family. Meroney was killed in 1969 when the F-4 he and Col. Wendell Keller were flying crashed while carrying out a mission in Khammouan Province, Laos. (U.S. Air Force photo/Lt. Col. Kevin McAndrews)
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