A veteran was laid to rest in Arizona on Saturday, Sept. 17 and the service came complete with a military flyover, a fitting farewell to the pilot who served in Korea and Vietnam.
"He was my personal hero," said Lorna Suzanne Skousen, the daughter of Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Alma Skousen.He joined the Army Air Corps during World War II when he was just 17 with dreams of becoming a fighter pilot.
During his lifetime, Skousen served a total of 28 years in the military. He was a fighter pilot in the Korean and Vietnam wars. "I've had back seaters come to me and other fighter pilots saying he was not a slacker one iota. If he was fired upon, he was taking it to them. That was his ethos and that was how he operated," said Curtis Skousen, his son.
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