SFC Robert Cummings comes home
Back in November, Hondo told us that the remains of Sergeant First Class Robert Cummings had been identified by the DPAA. Jill sends us a link to the story that tells about his son, Rex, who waited for the father he never knew;
“It’s what I prayed for,” said Rex Cummings of Clarksville. “Never give up. Never give up.”
Sixty-six years. That’s how long Cummings has waited. Wife Deborah sat with him on a couch at Neal-Tarpley-Parchman Funeral Home as he finally got a chance to say goodbye to a man he never had the chance to meet.
From the Leaf-Chronicle;
Rex Cummings was born was born two months after his father, Sfc. Robert Roy Cummings, went missing in Korea. Robert Roy Cummings’ remains were found in November, more than half a century after he disappeared.
“I can’t explain it, 66 years of emotions flooding, but the main thing is that I have got my dad back home,” Rex Cummings said. “It’s closure for the family, his brothers and sisters.”
Category: We Remember
I am happy for the family and, most especially, the son who never gave up.
It’s dusty in here today.
Welcome home, soldier.
Be at peace now, Mr. Cummings.
you bet it is…!
I met a young Korean Army Veteran yesterday that was a translator for the ROK in matters of American Veterans coming home.
What an honor it was to meet him.
I told him about This Ain’t Hell and hope that he comes by here to say hello.
I also told him how important his work was and how grateful that we are for what he did and what South Korea is doing to repatriate the remains of these men that fought and died on that piece of ground to beat back the forces of communism in the first hot war of the Cold War Generation…
Welcome home Sir, your mission is accomplished…
Welcome home good sir, may God bless your soul.
Welcome home.
Rest well.
RIP, Brother. I am humbled by your sacrifice.
Welcome home, Brother.
Welcome home, SFC…and to those who continue the task of bringing our brothers and sisters home, you are doing God’s work.