On October 28, 2009, a T-34C Turbomentor plane carrying Lt. John Joseph Houston and Lt. Bret Travis Miller went missing not far from the Naval Air Station of Corpus Christi, Tx. On Friday evening, the body of Bret Miller was discovered 11 miles northeast of Port Aransas, Tx. Lt. It wasn't until a grueling 3 weeks after his disappearance that Joe Houston was found within the wreckage itself. The day before his 30th birthday.

These are the pictures that I took of Joe and his two favorite people the beautiful summer of '09, the happiest of his life. And while we miss him desperately here on earth, we praise God knowing that Joe is with his creator, the true lover of his soul and there is no place he would rather be. He is home.

The pictures at the end of the gallery are from the last day of our civilian land search for Joe on the island of San Jose.