Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Stirm, the man captured in the iconic "Burst of Joy" photo at Travis Air Force Base in Northern California, has died at the age of 92, his family said.

Stirm passed away on the morning of Veterans Day.

He was a prisoner of war in Vietnam for five years. When he was freed and arrived home at Travis Air Force Base in 1973, an iconic photo captured his daughter running toward her father.

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Five decades later, in April, Stirm's daughter, Lorrie Kitching, spoke with CBS Sacramento to reflect on that moment. Kitching, with her arms outstretched in the photo as she runs toward her father, was 15 years old at the time.

"It is just a glorious moment of time of my dad coming home to his family," Kitching said.

Kitching saved letters her father

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