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

Stirm passed away on Veterans Day morning.

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 15-year-old daughter running toward her father.

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Five decades later, Stirm's daughter, Lorrie Kitching, spoke with CBS Sacramento to reflect on that moment.

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

Kitching saved letters her dad wrote from the prison camp.

"I'm so proud of my teenage girl," one of the letters said.

One of Stirm's prison mates was John McCain, who was

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