On Friday dozens of veterans, military officials and the families of missing military personnel gathered at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl to commemorate National Prisoner of War and Missing in Action Recognition Day.
National POW/MIA Recognition Day was established under President Carter in 1979 and is honored on the third Friday of September with presidential proclamation.
Flags drift in the afternoon sun at Automated Conveyor Systems on Graves Mill Road. This patriotic display marked its 6th year honoring veterans, active duty military, first responders, firefighters, police
By some accounts, as many as 5 million POW/MIA bracelets were produced during the Vietnam War. Each was inscribed with the name of a member of the armed forces who was a prisoner of war or missing in action.