Just another reminder that we are still bringing home those that gave the ultimate sacrifice in 'Nam.
Feb 27, 10:55 PM EST
Funeral Held for Vietnam-Era Pilot
By T.A. BADGER Associated Press Writer]
FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- Thirty-five years after his Air Force jet crashed in Southeast Asia, Col. Harold Lineberger's remains are back in Texas.
Lineberger was remembered Monday by family and friends at a military funeral at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery about two months after his remains, found in Cambodia, were positively identified.
"We've missed him for so many years," his son Jeffery told a crowd of more than 150 people, including many of Lineberger's Vietnam-era comrades. "It's been over three decades since we said goodbye ... but it's still very hard and sad to let him go."
Lineberger, a 36-year-old major from Austin, disappeared Jan. 29, 1971, while flying an OV-10A Bronco on a reconnaissance mission over northeastern Cambodia.
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