Heroes of the <it>Hornet</it><br>Interred at Arlington<br>Half a Century Later
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On July 19, 1967, a helicopter took off from the USS Hornet, an aircraft carrier operating off the coast of North Vietnam. The chopper, with its crew of four, never returned. On Thursday, at the Arlington National Cemetery, the sailors’ remains were laid to rest.
The funeral was three decades in the making, if you start with the dispatch by the Vietnamese government of a box of remains to American authorities in 1982.
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