I am honoring Capt. Jack Duffy, USAF. Maine natives, Jack and I were Academy classmates (1968), but more than that, we were close friends. Through two years in the same cadet squadron, and overlapping pilot training classes, we enjoyed the many good times and endured the bad. The tough kid from Munjoy Hill was a 4-year wing boxing champ, and a true warrior. I took him to meet his flight to Viet Nam, and he was killed in his O-2 FAC aircraft April 4, 1970. His remains were recovered through an extraordinary effort by what is now the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Office (JPAC), in 1993, and we laid Jack to rest in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors on October 18, 1996. We, his family and friends, owe JPAC a huge debt of gratitude for the closure we finally felt after more than 20 years.