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MIA Navy Pilot's remains returned to family 50 years later.
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The pilots wedding ring and clothes along with his bones were found in the pond. Crosby was one of 14 planes that were shot during the ship's 1965 to 1966 cruise with nine of the pilots for those flights being killed and two being Prisoners of War
Deborah Crosby touched her father's flag-draped casket as her three brothers hugged her in a tearful embrace on the tarmac at the San Diego airport Friday - ending a more than half century search to find and bring home the remains of Lt Cmdr Frederick P Crosby, shot down as a Navy pilot in the Vietnam War.
Plans inch forward to convert former SCI Greensburg into veterans center
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Four years after state officials turned out the lights and locked the doors, a former medium-security state prison in Hempfield may be poised to become a full-service veterans transition center.
David Goldsmith, the Carlisle businessman who bought the 300,000-square-foot facility in 2015, first broached the possibility in a regional construction publication and a YouTube video last year. http://veteranssunrisecenter.com/