In December 1972, just a month before American forces left Vietnam, a Marine Corps pilot from Odessa, Texas, named Ron Forrester went missing during a bombing run. His daughter Karoni, who was two years old at the time, spent the next fifty years trying to learn what happened to him.Her search is the subject of the latest podcast series from Texas Monthly and a feature story in the June issue of the magazine, “The Final Flight of Captain Forrester.”Texas Monthly senior writer Josh Alvarez spent more than a year reporting, traveling all over the world, to piece this story together. In this week’s episode, he talks about that experience and what one family’s story taught him about the unfinished history of the war.This piece was…
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