Hand resting on the military casket draped in the Stars and Stripes, Captain Bryan Knight stood on the tarmac of the same Texas airport where he had seen his father alive for the last time some 52 years ago.
As six military pallbearers stood in wait, passengers crowded the windows in respectful silence after the announcement came over the tannoy on Aug. 8 at Love Field airport in Dallas: A U.S. Vietnam war pilot was being brought home to rest, flown in on a Southwest plane piloted by his own son.
