US Marine Staff Sergeant Alphonso R. Riate converses with a crowd of well-wishers at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu. This image comes from the repatriation of US Marine POWs during Operation Homecoming on March 18, 1973. The photograph was taken by SSgt. Dotson at Camp Smith, Oahu, Hawaii. The 27-year-old native of Santa Rosa, California, was on his way to Naval Hospital, Camp Pendleton, California.

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