US, China Sign Agreement
Week of March 10, 2008
U.S. and Chinese officials signed a document
to formalize research in Chinese archives on
Korean War POW/MIA matters. The arrangement
outlines expected cooperation between the U.S.
and China in researching the archives, which
may shed light on Americans who were missing in action
or held as prisoners of war in camps managed
by the Chinese. In seeking to account for the approximately
8,100 servicemen missing from the Korean War,
the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office has sought
access to these archives for more than a decade.
For additional information on the Defense Department's
mission to account for missing Americans,
visit the DPMO website or call (703) 699-1420 or (703) 509-1905.
How many POW/MIA's are listed in Iraq today...
Capt. Scott Speicher(Desert Storm), Sgt Matt Maupin, Spc Ahmed K. Altaie,
Pvt Byron Fouty, and Spc Alex Jimenez
CALL TO ACTION
H.Res 111 Update -
We’ve set up a web page providing you with the
text of H.Res 111, a contact list for Congressional Representatives, with
email links and fax numbers.
There is also a sample letter. Use it, change
it or write your own letter.
This information may be accessed from our website.
Follow the links.
Text of H.Res 111 visit
www.nationalalliance.org/legis/hres111.htm
Contact List for Congressional Representatives
www.nationalalliance.org/legis/110congress.htm
Sample Letter
www.nationalalliance.org/legis/sample.htm
Seven Reasons We Need H.Res 111
www.nationalalliance.org/legis/reason.pdf
Documents Supporting the Case for H.Res 111
www.nationalalliance.org/legis/documents.pdf
Make sure you contact your congressional representative,
asking them to co-sponsor H.Res
111.
H.Res. 111 – To establish, in the House of Representatives
a Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. Introduced January 30, 2007
by Congressman Peter King (R-NY), H.Res 111 calls
for a select committee to "conduct a full investigation of all unresolved
matters relating
to any United States personnel unaccounted for
from the Vietnam era, the Korean conflict, World War II, Cold War Missions,
or Gulf War, including MIA's and POW's."
The Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs
concluded in 1993 that; "There is evidence, moreover, that indicates the
possibility of survival, at least for a small
number, after Operation Homecoming...."
Isn't it time we find out what happened to that "small number" and address the "unresolved matters" relating to our POW/MIAs
Since the last congressional hearings were held
in 1996, much new information has surfaced regarding the mis-handling and
suppression of POW/MIA information. A former
analyst with the Defense POW/MIA Office, provided this information along
with many
other disturbing details requiring Congressional
attention. Specifically, he detailed a report referred to, in house, as
the "185 Report,"
This report discussed the possibility that as
many as 185 American POWs were alive as late as 1976. During the same time
frame the
Joint Casualty Resolution Center (JCRC)concluded
their own study. They found the possibility
existed that as many as 57 American servicemen
might be alive.
In March 2006, memos written by a former Defense
Intelligence analyst while serving as an investigator with the Senate Select
Committee on POW/MIA Affairs were discovered.
These memos detailed the Vietnamese admission that some 19 servicemen listed
as
died while missing were in fact captured. These
servicemen survived in captivity for varying lengths of time, one by Vietnamese
admission
survived three years. The committee never addressed
this matter. In an interesting side note, 10 of the nineteen servicemen
Vietnamese
official acknowledged "survived into captivity"
are among the 57 our own (JCRC)concluded might still be alive.
In February of 2005, the Joint Commission Support
Directorate, the investigative arm of the U.S./Russian Joint POW/MIA Commission
concluded; "Americans, including American servicemen,
were imprisoned in the Soviet Union."
This is but the tip of the iceberg, requiring
congressional attention.
It is time to address the volumes of new information available on POW/MIA matters from World War II, Korea, Cold War, Vietnam and the Gulf.
Co-Sponsors Are Needed For H.Res 111 NOW
We ask you all to contact your congressional representatives
and request that they co-sponsor H.Res 111.
We've posted a list of all 435 congressional
representatives on our web site, along their phone and fax numbers.
There is a sample letter linkl below.
Use it, as is, alter it to make it more personal,
or write your own letter.
It's time for Congress to take another look at
the POW/MIA issue.
Make sure you contact your congressional representative,
asking them to co-sponsor H.Res 111.
Contact List for Congressional Representatives-http://www.nationalalliance.org/legis/110congress.htm
Sample Letter You Can Use-http://www.nationalalliance.org/legis/sample.htm
1,807 Americans
are still missing and unaccounted for from the Vietnam War:
Vietnam -1,381
Laos - 364 Cambodia
- 55;
Peoples Republic of China territorial
waters - 7
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Wisconsin's
POW-MIA
Balloon Launch
POW-MIA
Balloon Launch Site
Wisconsin's
10th
Anniversary
Balloon
Launch Story & Pictures
LAST
AND FINAL LAUNCH EVER IN WISCONSIN
WISCONSIN
LAUNCH 2007 PICTURES
Wisconsin
POW-MIA Launch Video
Launch
Video-Missing Man Table Ceremony
Jen Bauer
http://www.powmiaff.org
DOC
With the help of all of your team in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this event has been one
of our most successful in
reaching folks about the issue and helping to
keep the issue alive.
On behalf of the Executive Board and Membership
of the POW/MIA Freedom
Fighters, we would like to present you with this
Special Recognition Award for
Exceptional and Continual Service Above and Beyond
on Behalf of our
POW/MIA's. This award was created especially
for you all by our board members.
To: Jeff Doc Dentice
Dear Doc,
I don't know if you remember ex-POW Col. Ted Guy, but back in 1998 when
we first came up with the
idea of getting communities to do a POW/MIA Balloon Launch, we got a lot
of heat from POW/MIA
activists balking at the idea. But Col. Guy told me to hang in there and
to get this event going. He felt it
was a great way to keep this issue alive. With the help of all of your
team in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this
event has been our Largest & most successful in reaching folks about
the issue and
helping to keep the issue alive.
On behalf of the Executive Board and Membership
of the POW/MIA Freedom Fighters, we would like to
present you with this Special Recognition Award
for Exceptional and Continual Service Above
and Beyond on Behalf of our POW/MIA's.
Thanks to all of you that made this happen, the
Milwaukee, Wisconsin POW/MIA Balloon Launch has
been one of our oldest POW/MIA events, having
participated since day one in 1998, and has become
one of our largest launches, reaching folks that
never knew about the issue.
We want to personally thank all of you that have
participated since day one, and including those that
have participated in this last POW/MIA Balloon
Launch on Memorial Day 2004:
This award is not given lightly. In fact, as a
member of the POW/MIA Freedom Fighters,
you and your team, are our very first
recipients.
Thank you again for another job well done!
Keep up the great work!
God Bless!
Jen Bauer
President & Founder, POW/MIA Freedom Fighters
Vietnam POW exhibit opens at Air
Force museum
May 10, 2006
5/9/2006 - DAYTON, Ohio (AFPN) -- Visitors can
get a rare glimpse into the lives of prisoners of war through
a dramatic new exhibit at the National Museum
of the United States Air Force.
The exhibit, titled "Return with Honor: American
Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia," located in the
museum's Modern Flight Gallery, is now open to
the public.
Visitors enter the exhibit next to a reproduced
doorway to the "Hanoi Hilton," the name given by Americans to Hoa Lo Prison.
Photographs, videos, dioramas and artifacts tell
the story of prisoner torture, political exploitation,
filthy living conditions and endless attempts
at communist indoctrination.
Visitors can look inside re-created, life-size
prison cells for an up-close picture of POW living conditions. Several
artifacts, including
handmade games, rings, cigarette cases and clothing
that were created by the prisoners during their confinement, also are on
display.
"We are extremely honored to have an exhibit that
pays tribute to the courage and bravery exemplified by these POWs," said
museum
director retired Maj. Gen. Charles D. Metcalf.
"The POW story is one that ignites emotion and this exhibit will give visitors
a greater understanding of the inhumane conditions
the POWs endured."
The exhibit also features a Son Tay prison camp
rescue raid display. Although the raiders in November 1970 found that the
prison camp
did not hold any POWs, the raid proved a success
in other ways. A daring raid so close to Hanoi showed that the United States
had
the will to carry out exceptional operations
to ensure POW well-being. POW morale soared on account of the raid.
The exhibit also highlights the story of U.S.
forces' final combat in Southeast Asia, which occurred in May 1975 when
the American cargo
ship SS Mayaguez was seized by the Cambodian
Khmer Rouge navy while it was in international waters. Featured in this
display are a
life ring from the Mayaguez and a beret worn
by one of the pararescuemen who participated in the operation.
The National Museum of the United States Air Force
is located on Springfield Pike, six miles northeast of downtown Dayton.
It is open 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. seven days a week (closed Thanksgiving,
Christmas and New Year's Day).
Admission to the museum and parking are free.
For more information about this and other exhibits at the museum, please
call (937) 255-3286, Ext. 302.
" This Award is issued to Docs
site
by the
Advisory Board of the POW/MIA
Freedom Fighters Organization, for it's early
and steadfast
commitment to our missing Warriors "
"FREEDOM IS NOT FREE"
THIS EAGLE WILL NEVER FLY FREE
UNTIL
ALL OUR POW-MIAS ARE ARE
BACK HOME!
"POW-MIA
FLAG"
"IS HANGING HIGH AT MILLER
PARK IN
MILWAUKEE"
Still
Hanging High
The New Miller Park Stadium
in Milwaukee Wisconsin
is flying the POW-MIA flag in left
field. When "Doc" asked
Ms. Wendy Selig Prieb the owner
of the Milwaukee Brewers
if she would do this for our POW-MIAS
she said she would
get back to me. Well she did and
had A custom huge POW-MIA banner
made and hung in the stadium. Her
email to me a weeks ago telling me it was
a done deal was more then I could
have imagined. The Veterans in
Wisconsin send a Proud Salute to
Ms. Prieb for going the eatra mile. I can
only hope that all the stadiums
across the country will follow
her lead in making sure that our
Nation's Hero's will never be forgotten....
Thank's Wendy!
You've made this Vietnam Medic A believer.
Jeff Doc Dentice
Photo taken while on their tour in Iraq last fall
at Balad AFB in the middle of the Sunni Triangle.
I'm pretty sure that the F-16 that was carrying
the bomb was with his squadron,
the Black Widow Squadron from Hill AFB in Ogden,
Utah
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