6 Crewmen Shot Down Over Laos Are Finally Laid To Rest At Arlington Cemetery

Combat: The servicemen were flying in an AC-47D when it was shot down. Daily Mail

Crew Shot Down Over Laos Finally Laid To Rest -- Military.com

On Christmas Eve in 1965, a World War II-vintage "Gooney Bird" rattled and rolled to takeoff from the Da Nang airfield in Vietnam on a secret mission to a war in Laos that the U.S. officially denied was being fought.

Nearly 47 years later, the Air Force crew of six aboard came home to the military's "Last Bivouac" in Arlington National Cemetery. Today they were lowered into the ground as a group in a single casket that was, in a sense, a time capsule from generations-ago conflicts whose politics and diplomacy were possibly even more muddled and maddening than those the nation has faced since 9/11.

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More News On The Return Of 6 Fallen Airmen And Their Burial At Arlington Cemetery

Closure for families of airmen killed in 1965 plane crash, presumed dead but not found for 50 years -- Daily Mail
US military buries airmen killed in 1965 crash -- Seattle Times/AP
46 years later, US military 6 airmen lost in Laos plane crash buried together in Arlington -- Washington Post/AP
Six Airmen Lost Over Laos in 1965 Buried at Arlington -- ABC News
6 airmen lost in Laos crash being buried -- UPI

My Comment: R.I.P.