Vietnam casualty buried

Vietnam casualty buried

(EXCERPT) Kym Klass / The Times Posted on October 19, 2003

More than 30 years after Chief Master Sgt. Charlie Poole went missing
in Vietnam, the tears still flowed.

Nearly 200 people attended a funeral service for Poole at Hill Crest
Memorial Park in Haughton on Saturday. There was rarely a moment
during the 90-minute ceremony that family members, or even a stranger,
wasn't wiping tears from their cheeks or dabbing their eyes with
tissue.

It's been a long wait for the Poole family, including five children
and grandchildren he'd never even met, to give him a proper burial.

But on Saturday, six Barksdale Air Force Base airmen, led by a
bagpiper, carried the remains of Poole - 21 bones positively
identified through DNA - in a silver caske...

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