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IE FIRST TWO P-0-W'S ARRIVED BACK IN THE U-S LATE LAST NIGHT.
NAVY COMMANDER tRIAN WOODS AND AIR FORCE MAJOR GLENDON PERKINS
WERE FLOWN BACK EARLY SO THEY-COULD BE AT THE BEDSIDES OF THEIR
CRITICALLY ILL MOTHERS. THEIR AIR FORCE C-141 MEDICAL EVACUATION
TRANSPORT HAD TO CIRCLE THE MIRAMAR NAVAL AIR STATION AT SAN
DIEGO FOR NEARLY AN HOUR BECAUSE OF TROUBLE WITH ITS WING FLAPS.
IT FINALLY TOUCHED DOWN SAFELY AT p P.M.l
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WOODS AND PERKINS SALUTED AS THEY STEPPED ONTO THE U-S MAINLAND
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS. THE ARRIVAL CEREMONY WAS KEPT BRIEF
SO THEY COULD REACH THEIR MOTHERS' BEDSIDES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
WOODS TOLD THE SMALL GROUP AT THE AIRPORT: ''WE ARE GRATEFUL
AND OVERWHELMED. WE ARE RPOUD TO BE AMERICANS. WE ARE PROUD TO
HAVE SERVED OUR COUNTRY AND OUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.''
L-Q-S WAS GREETED BY HIS WIFE PAULA, THEIR THREE CHILDREN AND
HIS FATHER, RETIRED REAR-ADMIRAL R.W.D. WOODS. PERKINS' FAMILY
AWAITED HIM AT MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE IN ALABAMA, WHERE HE LANDED
SEVERAL HOURS LATER t
WOODS AND HIS FAMILY QUICKLY DROVE TO A HOSPIT IN THE SAN
DIEGO SUBURB OF CORONADO, WHERE DOCTORS HAD FOUGHT TO KEEP HIS
70-YEAR-OLD MOTHER ALIVE UNTIL HE ARRIVED. SHE'S SUFFERING FROM
HEART AND KIDNEY DISEASE. WOODS SAW HIS MOTHER BRIEFLY IN THE
INTENSIVE-CARE SECTION. HE SAID HE TOLD HER THE PRODIGAL CHILD
WAS HOME AND THERE'S NO REASON NOW THAT SHE SHOULDN'T GET BETTER.
WOODS SAID HIS MOTHER TOLD HIM: ''GOD HAS REWARDED MY PRAYERS.'
05:12ACD 02-14-73
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Return], script, February 14, 1973, 6:30 a.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1734939/m1/1/: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.