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Gone, Not Forgotten Never Forget Make Memorial Day more than 1 day a year.
"I Care about our POW/MIA'S and they will not be forgotten!"
Bring all Americans home, alive or dead, from where ever they may be held, or lay lost. You can do something to help.
The "POW/MIA Freedom Fighters" is a not for profit organization, run solely by volunteers. http://www.powmiaff.org/
Adopt a POW/MIA: http://www.ojc.org/adopt/adoptreq.htm
Operation Just Cause: Working for a full and accurate accounting of all our POW / MIA / KIA (body not recovered).
We must continue until a true and full accounting has been made.
"Nearly 60 years after the end of World War II, the fate of more than 78,000 Americans who fought in that conflict remains unknown. 8,057 from the Korean War are missing, more than 120 from the Cold War, more than 1,900 from the Vietnam War, and three from the Gulf War. These Americans, who dedicated their lives to preserving and protecting our freedoms, will never be forgotten." -- President Bush, National POW-MIA Recognition Day, Sep. 19, 2002 (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020919-12.html)
"Time will not dim the glory of their deeds" -- Gen. John J. Pershing
"We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we’ve done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home to seek our own, you know, to seek our own lives in peace, to live our own lives in peace. But there comes a time when soft power or talking with evil will not work where, unfortunately, hard power is the only thing that works." -- Colin Powell, World Economic Forum in Switzerland, January, 2003
"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." -- President Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg, PA, November 1863
U.S. War Dead/POW/MIA The Price Americans Have Paid Since 1775
War KIA POW MIA
Revolutionary War: 4,435 18,152 1,426
War of 1812: 2,260 20,000 695
Mexican War: 1,733 46 238
Civil War: 214,938 409,608 (Combined POW/MIA)
Spanish-American War: 385 8 72
World War I: 53,402 7,470 (Combined POW/MIA)
World War II: 291,557 124,079 630,314
Korean War: 33,741 7,140 8,177
Vietnam Conflict: 47,424 2,583 1,805 (5/01/06)
Persian Gulf War: 147 1 12
Operation Iraqi Freedom: 508
(as of May 17, 2008)
Operation Iraqi Freedom: 4,084
(as of May 28, 2008)
TOTAL: 654,614 (Killed In Action) 629,837 (Combined POW/MIA)
Combined total: 1,284,451
Not Counted: Deaths from wounds, Indian Wars, Philipine War, Cold War (classified), Barbary Wars, Boxer Rebellion, Mexican Revolution, El Salvador, Grenada, Haiti Occupation, Panama, Somalia, USS Pueblo Incident, USS Stark Incident, Other Incidents and, Civilian deaths and missing during armed conflict.
Source: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004615.html
Source: http://www.aiipowmia.com/stats.html
Source: http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/mission_vision.htm
Source: http://icasualties.org/oif/
Died in Captivity (DIC) POWs Estimate by Conflict
• Second IndoChina War (SEA): 113 Acknowledged
• Korean War: 2,471
• WW II Pacific Theater: 12,500
• WW II European Theater: 1,200
Source: http://www.aiipowmia.com/stats.html
• WW II Hell Ships: 3,592 (killed by Allied bombs)
Hellships were unmarked Japanese freighters used to transport American POWs during WWII. Because these ships were unmarked, Allied forces frequently targeted and torpedoed them. We had no way of knowing that our troops were packed like sardines in the holds of these freighters with no chance of escape, if the ship were hit. The result was that thousands of Allied troops lost their lives.
Source: http://www.west-point.org/family/adbc/hellship.htm
Source: http://www.wvculture.org/HiStory/wvmemory/vets/hellships.html
Unrecovered - Not Yet Home
Service Personnel Not Recovered World War II: 74,384
Service Personnel Buried at Sea World War II: 6,043
Service men died, as prisoners of war, and are still unrecovered in North Korea: More than 2,000
Source: http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/WWII_MIA/INDEX.HTM
U.S. War Dead Interred Overseas: 124,917 (30,921 from World War I, 93,246 from World War II, and 750 from the Mexican-American War)
Permanent American Military Burial Grounds on Foreign Soil: 385386
American War Cemeteries in Foreign Lands
Belgium: Ardennes, Flanders Field, Henri-Chapelle
England: Brookwood, Cambridge
France: Aisne-Marne, Brittany, Epinal, Lorraine, Meuse-Argonne, Oise-Aisne, Normandy, Rhone, Somme, St. Mihiel, Suresnes
Italy: Florence, Sicily-Rome
Luxembourg: Luxembourg
Mexico: Mexico City
Netherlands: Netherlands
Panama: Corozal
Philippines: Manila
Tunisia: North Africa
Source: http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries/cemeteries.php
Search the burial lists: http://www.abmc.gov/search/vn_list.php
Visit one of the 125 VA national cemeteries in 39 states (and Puerto Rico): http://www.cem.va.gov/cem/cems/listcem.asp#NC
Strive for Peace and Never Forget Bring them home
joy (US Army, 1974-87)
Owned servant of Master David (Vietnam Veteran, US Army, 1970-73)
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