Weekend Special - The Mike Christian Story
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posted by Tom Karst @ 9:42 AM
Saturday, February 9, 2008
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Where is his friend Mike Christian today and why isn't he supporting McCain? Sounds like Mike was the true hero of that cell. Of course the broader issues of why we were there in the first place is something to think about. The brave people in service must always be honored over the politicians (who will play that card whenever it serves them - except when its issues like conditions at Walter Reed Hospital.) Funny thing now is that we trade with communist Vietnam and China. Go figure. Let us not forget the USDA cheating black farmers on Ag loans while McCain cashed his checks. Did Mr. Christian return home to farm? I pray Mr. Christian is still alive and healthy. McCain didn't seem to know.
CHRISTIAN, MICHAEL DURHEN
Died in fire at home September 1983
Name: Michael Durhan Christian
Rank/Branch: O2/US Navy
Unit: Attack Squadron 85, USS KITTY HAWK
Date of Birth: 07 October 1940
Home City of Record: Huntsville AL
Date of Loss: 24 April 1967
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 212400N 1061900E (XJ364667)
Status (in 1973): Released POW
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A6A
Other Personnel in Incident: Lewis I. Williams, Jr. (released POW)
Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 15 April 1990 from one or more of the
following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with
POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. Updated by the P.O.W.
NETWORK.
MICHAEL D. CHRISTIAN
Lieutenant Commander - United States Navy
Shot Down: April 24, 1967
Released: March 4, 1973
Family: Father, William D. Christian of Huntsville, Alabama. My mother died during the last year of my captivity. Sister, Pat Endres of Colonie, New York. Brother, Lary Alan Christian, age 11, of Huntsville, Alabama. Wife, Charlotte Strong Christian of Virginia Beach, Virginia. Children, Deborah Kaye, age 13, Sandra Dawn, age 11, Pamela Joan, age 8.
Education: Pre High School, Schenectady, New York; Butler High School, Huntsville, Alabama; University of Alabama (1 semester); Purdue University, BSEE 1964.
Navy: Enlisted 28 January 1958-Aviation electronics technician; Naval Enlisted Scientific Education Program (NESEP) a commission program;
one and a half years surface Navy in the USS Dahlgren DLG-12; B/N
Wings in 1966; A-6A B/N in VA-85 aboard the USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63).
Interests: Music, Languages, Literature, Travel, and mainly - my family.
My pilot was Lt. Lewis Irving (Irv) Williams. We were shot down 24 April 1967 at Kep Airfield about 30 miles northeast of Hanoi.
[Who knows what his race was but the issues remain the same. McCain's party really care about barefoot people from the South?]
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