WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - More than 120 former prisoners from the Vietnam War and their families will help the Air Force Reserve's 445th Airlift Wing retire the Air Force's last C-141, the "Hanoi Taxi" during festivities May 5-6.
The C-141 "Hanoi Taxi" was the first aircraft to arrive in Hanoi in February 1973 to pick up the POWs returning to the United States. The "Hanoi Taxi" was one of several aircraft involved in repatriating more than 500 American POWs held by the North Vietnamese.
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How long will the reminders of the Iraq war be with us? 20? 30? 40 years from now, will we be sending a military machine from this war to a museum? Will we have the same regrets, the same losses? Hopefully, in 40 years, we won't be tempted to make the same mistakes.
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