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Posted on 12/07/2004 8:05:04 PM PST by Spotsy
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ASIRE, DONALD HENRY Remains Returned 21 June 1989 Name: Donald Henry Asire Rank/Branch: O5/US Air Force Unit: 354 Tactical Fighter Squadron Date of Birth: 08 July 1923 Home City of Record: Pomona CA Date of Loss: 08 December 1966 Country of Loss: North Vietnam Loss Coordinates: 211500N 1051800E (WF675535) Status (in 1973): Missing in Action Category: 2 Acft/Vehicle/Ground: F105D Refno: 0544 Other Personnel in Incident: (none missing) Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 15 March 1991 from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK. REMARKS: SYNOPSIS: The F105 Thunderchief (or "Thud") performed yoeman service on many diversified missions in Southeast Asia. F105s flew more combat missions over North Vietnam than any other USAF aircraft and consequently suffered the heaviest losses in action. They dropped bombs by day and occasionally by night from high or low altitude and some later versions (F105D in Wild Weasel guise) attacked SAM sites with their radar tracking air-to-ground missiles. This versatile aircraft was also credited with downing 25 Russian MiGs. LtCol. Donald H. Asire was the pilot of an F105D which departed Takhli Airfield, Thailand on an operational mission over North Vietnam on December 8, 1966. Asire's aircraft was number three in a flight of four. Over Hos Binh Province, about 30 miles northwest of Hanoi, the flight engaged enemy aircraft. Asire was last seen as he dove into a cloud layer with an enemy aircraft in pursuit. Thereafter, no radio contact was made with him. Donald Asire was continued in a missing status until 19 September 1973 when his status was changed to presumed killed in action. During the period he was maintained missing, he was promoted to the rank of Colonel. For years, the Vietnamese denied any knowledge of Donald Asire, but on 21 June, 1989, they discovered his remains and returned them to U.S. control. This return was not publicly announced at the time. A Vietnamese defector stated in Congressional testimony that Vietnam stockpiles hundreds of sets of American remains. Congress believed him. He also testified that he had personally seen live American prisoners, held long after the war was over and all Americans had supposedly been released. Congress ignores this testimony, although over 10,000 reports relating to Americans prisoner, missing or unaccounted for in Southeast Asia seem to substantiate what he was saying. The U.S. and Vietnamese "progress" at a snail's pace, while seemingly ignoring the tremendous weight of evidence that their priority should be those Americans still alive as captives. Meanwhile, thousands of lives are spent in the most tortured state imaginable - unable to grieve, unable to rejoice. They wait. |
Something about office attire and heads in the Canteen...you know how us old soldiers are!
Beachy! Did I understand correctly that your final exam is tonight? WooHoo! I'm pulling for you! You can do it! Can't wait to celebrate your diploma. Are you going to have it bronzed? My family bronzes everything. heeheeehhee.
I can't believe that arson case in your neck of the woods! If it was eviro extremists, I'm surprised they haven't hit the development next door to me. Frankly, I don't understand how the developers near me got past the EPA, Army Corps of Engineers, and a whole body of law to deprive so much wildlife of their habitat, to build on wetlands, and to build so close to a river.
This is why Spotsy would never be admitted to serve in our Armed Forces.
Hey Kathy!! Thanks for thinking of me. Love the Huevos Ranchero with the pancakes...
God Bless President Bush and our troops and their families this holiday season.
America-Land of the Free Because of the Brave
3-1/2 years?? I thought this was the BABY - as in approx. 1 month old??? (I know Rachel had her baby after my Jacob was born.) Did I miss something?
Good Morning Tomkow!
Those baby pictures are disturbing. Heeheheeee.
What kind of presents are you giving us this Friday?
"America-Land of the Free Because of the Brave."
You've got that right. That's one of my many car magnets, in camo, of course.
If Tomkow is the Burka Boy, guess that makes me the Magnet Girl. I'm so confused.
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We have good friends who have a daughter the same age as Shorty -- approx. 3 years -- who had to have one of those about 2 months ago.
Only 16 more days to put off Christmas shopping!
How long is the packing list getting Sarge?
I can tell that January is going to be a big travel month. Chopper traffic has picked up in my area. I've missed having the helicopters buzz my house.
No - he came home last summer. He was officially out in October, but of course he's still ready reserve status. He's been travelling the world! :o)
I appreciate that info Valin.
So far, I have put a wreath on the door
and a poinsettia by the fireplace.
Working at my usual pace. :)
Good Morning Lauren! There is that little cutie I was talking about.
Happy Wednesday!
Ron Hextall was the first NHL grandson to play in the league. His father and grandfather had also played. Bryan Hextall Sr. played 11 seasons with the New York Rangers and won the scoring title in 1941-42. His son, Ron's father, played nine less glamorous years before retiring in 1976. Ron's Uncle Dennis also played in the league as a fourthline player of limited talent. Ron, however, was the first Hextall to venture into the net.
The result of his time as a skater, though, was that Ron became perhaps the game's most mobile goalie of all time. It also gave him a desire to do something no goalie had ever done before?score. Sure enough, the night of December 8, 1987, in a game against Chicago, the Flyers had a two-goal lead and the Hawks pulled their goalie in the last minute. Hextall got the puck near the side of his net and fired it in, the first time a goalie had ever shot a puck into the opposition goal. (Billy Smith of the Islanders was once credited with a goal for being the last player to touch the puck before the other team scored into its own goal.) Incredibly, Hextall replicated the feat in the playoffs. On April 11, 1989, he again fired the puck into the open net, against Washington, thus also becoming the first goalie to score in a playoff game.
Read more here!
Going to the vet to pickup run a muk
She stayed over night after she was spayed
2 done, 4 to go
Back in awhile
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