Heroic Vietnam War veteran Robert Stirm — who appeared in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo showing the excited reunion between the long-held prisoner of war and his family — has died, his family announced on Thursday.

He was 92 and died on Veterans Day.

The heartwarming black-and-white 1973 image by Associated Press photographer Sal Veder shows Col. Stirm, then 39, moments from embracing his wife and children as they greeted him at Travis Air Force Base in California with ear-to-ear smiles and outstretched arms.

His eldest daughter appeared ready to bear hug her father in the aptly named “Burst of Joy” photo after he spent 1,966 days — more than five years — in captivity when his F-105 Thunderbird was shot down during a bombing mission over North Vietnam in 1967.

“Just the feelings of th

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