50 years later, Vietnam veterans deserve their homecoming

It was Dec. 20, 1965, just four days into his first deployment, when U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Bob Jeffrey climbed into an F-4 Phantom and took off over North Vietnam. His mission was to provide air-to-air protection for a strike on a railroad bridge near the Chinese border. Then, in a matter of seconds, everything changed. Anti-aircraft fire tore into his F-4. A loud thump. Warning lights…