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Hawaii Ceremony Commemorates POW/MIA Day

Posted at 08:48 PM on Saturday, September 20, 2008 by VFW News


The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command's Commander Rear Adm. Donna Crisp and retired U.S. Navy Capt. Jim Hickerson, a former Vietnam War POW present a wreath at the POW monument for National POW/MIA Recognition Day at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific on Sept. 19, 2008. JPAC's mission is to conduct operations in support of achieving the fullest possible accounting of Americans missing as a result of our nation's past conflicts. One American is still missing from the Gulf War, more than 1,750 from the Vietnam War, 120 from the Cold War, more than 8,100 from the Korean War, and more than 78,000 from World War II.

Date Taken: September 19th, 2008

Location: Honolulu, Hawaii

Photographer: Elizabeth Bartneck
Office of the Secretary of Defense Public Affairs

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