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Today — 20 November 2025Main stream

Robert L. Stirm, Returning P.O.W. in Pulitzer-Winning Photo, Dies at 92

20 November 2025 at 12:27
The image immortalized a Vietnam veteran’s joyous homecoming to his beaming family, but it hid the truth about an unraveling marriage.

© Sal Veder/Associated Press

Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm on March 17, 1973, as he was greeted by his family at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., after five and a half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. His daughter Lorrie, foreground, is followed by the other children, Robert, Cynthia and Roger, and his wife, Loretta.
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