Originally Posted by
xjcrew1
If you can download Taking Chance from iTunes. It's a movie that stayed in my mind for months. A relative of mine flew 141's during the Vietnam War. He carried out that mission more times than he cared to count. It gave me a slight glimpse into burden his soul carries.
Awesome movie. Awesome responsibility. I was fortunate enough to have flown one of the Repat missions during the 1990s when we brought home the remains of 5 US aviators from Hanoi (Ho Chi Minh City, whatever) to Hickam. Just five flag-draped coffins in the back of a C-141. I am too young to have fought in that war but my dad did. I remember how proud I was to be an American. I also remember, vividly, what a-holes the Vietnamese were about the whole thing. I had to pay them $20,000 in cash for landing rights at their God-forsaken airport.