Team Shaw honors WWII POW

Reverend Susan Johnson kisses her mother, Jacqueline Heckel, on the forehead following a Prisoner of War Medal presentation for her late husband, Col. Charles C. Heckel, at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., Jan. 19, 2018. As a World War II Army Air Corps lieutenant, Heckel became a prisoner of war October 1944 in Germany and faced forced marches, starvation, violence and the threat of execution until he was liberated in April 1945. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Kathryn R.C. Reaves)

PHOTO BY: Airman 1st Class Kathryn R.C. Reaves
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