An intimate gathering at the Portrait of a Warrior Gallery pays tribute to the 81,198 service members still missing in action.
- National POW/MIA Recognition Day.
- Remembering former POWs and the 81,198 still missing.
- Intimate gathering at the Portrait of a Warrior Gallery.
- Importance of registering DNA profiles to aid in recovery.
- Community’s duty to remember POWs and MIAs.
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Broadcast transcript:
Never forgotten… People gather each year to remember our service members who still haven’t come home. September 20th was officially proclaimed as “POW MIA Recognition day” to honor those missing and unaccounted for.
An intimate gathering at the Portrait of a Warrior Gallery, to call attention to a staggering statistic, nearly 81,200 service members.
Commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Califronia, Deborah Johnson, says,
“We still have members in our own community that were held as prisoners of war. It is up to us to remember and honor their sacrifices. If we do not, this will get lost in history.”