National POW/MIA Recognition Day
09/16/2005 07:01 p.m.
I went to the POW/MIA ceremony today. It is very powerful, to see the table guard enter and one by one place down the cap representing all those who cannot join us today in each service. To give a toast to them and remember them always. If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend you attend one of these functions. They will not be forgotten.


Observed each year on the third friday of September.

http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/index.htm

The first national commemoration held to honor America's POW/MIAs took place on July 18, 1979. Congress continued to pass resolutions yearly to recognize POW/MIAs until 1995. In 1996 the president signed a proclamation designating National POW/MIA Recognition Day.


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