Same year,... 1996,... I was co-chair of the POW/MIA reunion/banquet that the Freedom Flyers at Randolph do.
We got Bob Pardo, Earl Aman, and Steve Wayne to commit to coming. We wanted all 4 (obviously), since the 4 had not been together since The Push.
No one could find Bob Houghton, but we had the word out.
Sure enough, about 2-3 days before the reunion, we got a call from Bob Houghton: he was doing missionary work somewhere half way around the world, but he would be there if he could. And sure enough, he made it.
So,... we had all 4 of them together. It was a great event.
AND, we had an F-4 from Holloman, and got pics of all of them by the hook.
Of course, we had the F-4 crew drop the hook,... and they hadn't pulled the safety pin! So the hook was stuck up,... but no matter... it was an epic event.
Great Americans, they are.