Vietnam MIA comes home to Knox

Vietnam veteran, missing for decades, comes home to Knox
By Terry Turner Post-Tribune correspondent

Updated: August 3, 2011 1:59AM

KNOX — Andy Howes, missing in action since 1970 and Starke County’s final casualty of the Vietnam War, came home Monday evening to a tremendous turnout of veterans, classmates and the Knox and Starke County community.

The emotional goodbye for the 1968 graduate of Knox High School, who was just 19 when the Huey he was co-piloting was lost as he and his fellow crew members were returning from a mission, continued Tuesday evening, in what family members termed “a homecoming.”

Howes’ casket was carried a block-and-a-half by fellow Vietnam veterans from the M.C. Smith Funeral Home to the Knox Community Center. A long line of flag-carrying Indiana Patriot Guards on both sides of the street stood at attention as the casket went by.

Howes will be buried in his final resting place at Arlington National Cemetery on Aug 5.
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Vietnam veteran, missing for decades, comes home to Knox