VFW Post 6919
Culver, IN.
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Our Fallen And Missing!
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We shall never forget them!
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EVER WONDER ABOUT POW / MIA AND WHY A
RECOGNITION DAY?
Well, to start with, POW stands for Prisoner
of War and MIA stands for Missing-In-Action.
There may still be some POW’s from more than
one
of our wars, no one knows for certain. There
ARE
Missing-in-Action and our government has
search
unit which continues to track down areas where
U
S military may be buried. It seems that about
every
three months or so, remains have been located
and
brought ‘home’ to be buried.
The POW’s have a flag which is flown by
many VFW Posts and some government facilities.
Many of these flags have been donated for
government buildings by the VFW and/or Ladies
Auxiliaries.
The history of the POW/MIA begins with
Mary Hoff, the wife of MIA serviceman Michael
Hoff, when she recognized the need for a
symbol for
them. She contacted a flag company and they
were
commissioned to design a flag. Newton Heisley,
a
member of the firm and a W.W.II pilot,
selected
several flags from his wartime memories and
the
design chosen was the one depicting a
man’s head with barbed wire and a watchtower
in
the background. Below the design, the flag
bears
the motto “You Are Not Forgotten.”
Since then, the POW-MIA flag is the only
flag ever displayed in the U S Capitol rotunda
and
the only one other than the U S Flag to have
flown
over the White House. The 1998
Defense
Authorization Act specified
that the POW-MIA
flag is to fly on the following holidays:
Armed
Forces Day - 3rd Saturday in May; Memorial Day
-
Last Monday in May; Flag Day - June 14;
Independence Day - July 4; National POW-MIA
Recognition Day - 3rd Friday in September; and
Veterans Day - November 11.
The oftener we see this flag, the oftener it
will jog our memories!
Updated
9/26/2011
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