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  • A memorial bracelet engraved with a name, Lt. Col. Fredric M. Mellor, and the date he went missing, rests on a table May 20, 2020 at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. Col. Mark Baran, 22nd Air Refueling Wing vice commander, has worn the bracelet for 18 years to honor the F-101 Voodoo pilot who was shot down on mission during the Vietnam War. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Michaela Slanchik)

    Keeping the fallen alive: a good luck charm’s legacy

    “I put the bracelet on my wrist and it’s been [there] ever since,” said Col. Mark Baran, 22nd Air Refueling Wing Vice Commander.
  • Four F-16 Fighting Falcons fly in a missing man formation over the funeral of Maj. Dean Klenda, an F-105 Thunderchief pilot who was listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War, Sept. 17, 2016, at St. John Nepomucene Church in Pilsen, Kan. Klenda was laid to rest exactly 51 years after his aircraft went down in 1965 in North Vietnam. His remains were located and verified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman Erin McClellan)

    Airman laid to rest after being shot down in 1965

    Fifty one years; 18,615 days; 446,760 hours-that is how long his family went without answers, without closure. No longer is he missing in action; now, he is home.Fifty one years to the day that his F-105D Thunderchief was shot down over North Vietnam, the remains of Maj. Dean Klenda were laid to rest with full military honors in his hometown of
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