Captain Richard Stratton did greater than serve his nation within the Vietnam Warfare — the prisoner of struggle was often known as The Beak, a heroic member of the World-Well-known Golden Dragons, Strike Fighter 192. On Saturday, the Quincy native was laid to relaxation with full army honors.
“We never doubted you would get us home,” Stratton was quoted in his obituary as saying about his time in captivity as a POW. “We were blessed; we were Americans.”
Stratton earned his pilot’s wings in 1957 and served in Vietnam. He was captured there after being compelled to eject his plane and spent 2,251 days in North Vietnamese jail camps earlier than his launch in 1973, in response to his obituary.
Stratton died Jan. 18 at 93 years previous. Quincy Police supplied an escort from Logan Worldwide Airport in Boston to the funeral residence after which to Sacred Coronary heart Church in North Quincy and burial at Mt. Wollaston Cemetery in Quincy.
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Relations stand because the casket containing the physique of Captain Richard Stratton is wheeled down the aisle of Sacred Coronary heart Church throughout his funeral service Saturday in Quincy. (Photograph by Paul Connors/Boston Herald)
Photograph by Paul Connors/Boston Herald
Quincy Cops salute because the coffin of Captain Richard Stratton is carried into Sacred Coronary heart Church Saturday in Quincy. (Photograph by Paul Connors/Media Information Group/Boston Herald)
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