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He lives in Foster City, California. Stirm, a recently released prisoner of war, greets his family upon his arrival at Travis Air Force Base. They had four children Lorrie Alynne, Robert L. Lorrie was only 9 when her father was shot down. After 6 long years he finally came home. Minutes passed that seemed like hours but finally with the formalities over, the children jumped out of the car and ran to their father.

Three days before Stirm returned to America a chaplain had handed a Dear John letter from his wife. When he returned they tried to keep the marriage alive. His wife remarried in moving to Texas with her husband.

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Robert Stirm also remarried but this marriage too ended in divorce. The oldest Robert became a dentist and the younger Robert, like his father, joined the Air Force rising to the rank of Major. Lorrie the oldest is an executive administrator and the youngest daughter Cindy is a waitress. Except for pilot Robert, who lives in Seattle, they all live in California.

He points to the picture, to the tall woman — just outpacing her younger son — dressed in a blue-and-white pleated skirt and blue sweater, sporting a large corsage. Life is too short.

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To Stirm, 60, it is cruel irony that so public a reunion had so hollow a core. And she did not even have the honor and integrity to be honest with the kids. She lived a lie. This picture does not show the realities that she had accepted proposals of marriage from three different men. It portrays everybody there as happy to see me. It brought basket after basket of fan mail and newspaper clippings from all over the world, she recalls.

Lorrie, 35, lives in San Mateo, Calif. She works in the sales department of MediaSourcery, marketers of multimedia software. It was Christmas morning. You were racing down the stairs because we knew that there was a great present waiting for us.

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Directly behind Lorrie in the photo is Cindy, the youngest child. She had turned 11 two days before her father returned home. She is wearing her favorite dress, a black jumper with a lacy pinafore, knee socks and Mary Janes. Today, she is Cindy Pierson, 31, the mother of an 8-year-old girl. I was so young. Robert Stirm Jr. His sister, Cindy, is his office manager.

In the photo, he is 14, a broad smile on his face. Roger, 12 at the time, trails everyone.

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But behind the smiles in the picture, there was pain. Just three days before, Lt. Stirm received a letter from his wife saying she wanted a divorce. He felt torn between the joy of seeing his children and the heartache of losing his family. For Lorrie Stirm Kitching, looking at the picture brings mixed feelings. Her mother remarried in and moved to Texas with her husband.

Robert retired from the Air Force as a colonel in and worked as a corporate pilot and businessman. He married and was divorced again. Phyllis Brown, the historian behind The History Insider, started the site to share interesting and accurate history stories. Passionate about making history easy to understand, Phyllis brings the past to life, helping readers connect with stories that still matter today.