Moving Vietnam Wall... POW MIA Day
For those of you who haven't experienced the tribute to our fallen soldiers, consider heading out to Millennium Park (field C) in West Roxbury on September 17th to the 21st. A nightly ceremony will begin at 6PM.
As someone who could have gone and should have gone, I personally have so much sadness in my heart for those and their families who volunteered or were drafted and are now memorialized on the moving wall that travels around the country reminding us all of the sacrifices that so many have given.
POW MIA Day is September 18th. There are still many who are unaccounted for and here in Mass there are 39 men still to this day, unaccounted for from the Vietnam war.
There are, depending on who you believe, around 1700 still unaccounted for during the Vietnam war and only recently have we heard that two POW MIA's from the Iraq war were found, one from Mass. Some bone fragments around a US fighter jet have been uncovered in Laos and once in a while do we read about another servicemen s' family finally getting closer on their loved ones.
While our government still searches for POW MIA's, long past the time when they could have done more, as Americans, we owe it to our servicemen and to their the families to make dam sure, who ever goes off to war, is brought home.
With two wars raging now, causalities mounting, with no sense of when these conflicts will ever end, the brave men and women who go off to war, put themselves in harms way, we should never forget those who are prisoners or missing in action, ever.
posted by Jim Pillsbury @ 10:05 AM
5 Comments
5 Comments:
Thanks for the info Pillsbury. Will make the trip to see this. Are the POWs names listed on this wall and the wall in DC? Whether they are alive in prison camps in Vietnam or actually dead, they have given their lives so I think they should be included. Anyone know if they are?
No man left behind should not be simply a tag line it should be a credo for this government. Lets hope when we get out of these messes in the middle east that we can say no man left behind and mean it. I hope you all consider going to see this tribute to our service men. They deserve our respect and their familes deserve to know that there are people who remember and appreciate the sacrafices their loved ones and their familes have made for this country. Thanks for telling people about this opportunity to show their support of these soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice and their familes.
Hope this thing gets a good turnout. So many soldiers coming back with so many more serious injuries. This wall reminds us all of the cost of war. Not the dollar cost, the cost in lives. I will bring my grandkids so they can see the other side of the picture not just the side that makes them want to go fight to protect their country. Nothing wrong with being patriotic and wanting to go fight the enemy but they need to start learning that is not the only option and that the cost of fighting is so much higher than the dollar values we hear we hear about.
FR,
The POW MIA's are not listed to my knowledge on either. It's been assumed for years now that anyone who was a POW MIA would never be found alive. There are still missions going on to retrieve any signs of a lost solider
Part of the bigger question was the denial among our Military leaders that many missions were illegal to begin with and that our troops were never in places like Laos, Cambodia and the DMZ, which we only learned years later, that indeed sorties were carried out and some of the men lost were never acknowledged to even being there.
History is still being written about these brave souls, their missions and their recovery. A slow process that was hampered by politics and cover up years ago.
Remind us of this when the date gets closer. I think we should make sure there is a great turn out for this every night it is there. Important to show thanks to these people who have given so much.
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