A Long Trip Home for Mia ; Decades After War's End, a Husband's Fate Is Revealed

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Ever since Paul Getchell's plane crashed during a 1969 bombing mission in Laos, his wife, Teresa, has waited for him to come home to Portland.

At first she expected him to walk through the door. After the military determined that Getchell was likely dead, she searched for his image in photos carried home by former prisoners of war.

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A Long Trip Home for Mia ; Decades After War's End, a Husband's Fate Is Revealed

Later, she clung to rumors of missing U.S. soldiers in Soviet work camps.

Now her waiting has come to an end.

Twelve years after the Defense Department began searching for the site where his plane crashed, Paul Getchell is coming home. His remains were positively identified by the military two days before Christmas. Next month, Teresa Getchell, her son, Greg, and daughter, Karen, who were 3 and 4, respectively, when their father disappeared, will fly to Hawaii to pick up his remains and bury him at Arlington National Cemet...

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