Service to honor Mark Danielson

Service to honor Mark Danielson

(EXCERPT) Air Force captain's daughter in Louisville mourns his 1972
death, by Nicole Drummer, Camera Staff Writer October 18, 2003

LOUISVILLE — Lisa Corboy was only 3 years old when her father, an Air
Force navigator in the Vietnam War, was killed in action.

Most of what she knows of him are stories told to her by relatives and
experiences recounted in his letters from Vietnam. While she has no
recollection of when he died, Corboy said her mother watched her run
into her room and rip up his picture after she was told he wasn't
coming back.

Thirty-one years after his plane was shot down over the A Shau Valley
in South Vietnam, Capt. Mark Danielson's remains are being brought
home to Colorado and laid to rest in Fort Logan National Cemetery.

Corboy, a Louisville resident and now 34, said she went through many
of his letters when his remains were uncovered in Vietnam in 1993. In
the letters, Corboy said, he refrained from any emotional
descriptions.

"They're very mundane," she said. "He wrote about day-to-day stuff,
like doing his dry-cleaning and winning service awards. But it gives
you a glimpse into who he was."

Danielson, a Colorado native whose plane explode...

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