VIRGINIA (WDBJ) - Governor Glenn Youngkin has issued a flag order for Friday, September 20, in honor of POW/MIA Recognition Day. All public buildings are encouraged to display the POW/MIA flag at full ...
West Virginia native, veteran and former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch speaks to a crowd at Gold Star Park Friday during the The Purple Heart and POW/MIA Memorial Monument reveal event on POW/MIA ...
Sept. 19 is National POW/MIA Recognition Day to call attention to the fact that there are about 81,000 U.S. military personnel who are unaccounted for from World War II forward. The National League of ...
Lt. Col. Ben Pollard is welcomed home as part of Operation Homecoming in March 1973, after almost six years as a prisoner of war of the North Vietnamese. Pollard survived torture, starvation and ...
Vietnam War veteran Wes Anderson stands in front of the bronze statue at the Vietnam War memorial in Riverfront Park and listens to U.S. Air Force servicemen talk about the meaning of POW/MIA ...
RICHMOND, Va. — Gov. Glenn Youngkin has ordered flags of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the POW/MIA to be displayed Saturday for Armed Forces Day. Youngkin announced the order via a release on ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A grassroots effort led by local veterans to establish a national POW/MIA museum at Cecil Field will mark a milestone on Friday. They’ll be marking the kick-off of phase two of ...
Every September, America remembers its former prisoners of war (POW) as well as those who went missing in action (MIA) fighting for the nation on the battlefront during National POW/MIA Recognition ...
ELKO — A storage facility was the final official gathering spot of the POW/MIA Elko Awareness Association on Saturday, concluding its nearly 18 years of involvement in the community.
Members of the John Ford Highland Pipe Band from Overland march in at the beginning of the ceremony. The combined local ...