EP-3E pilot Lieutenant Shane Osborn of Norfolk, Nebraska, wipes a tear from his eye after arriving for a homecoming celebration at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Oak Harbor, Washington, April 14, 2001. The 24 VQ-1 Squadron crewmembers who survived the midair collision with a Chinese military jet near Hainan, China on April 1 and were detained for 11 days before the were released, arrived on a military C-9 transport jet after two days of debriefings in Hawaii. REUTERS/Anthony P.

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