6/27/09

YOU CAN HELP HEAL A NATIONS SHAME-POW-MIA


The actual numbers of MIA's (missing in action) all all over the map depending on which source you utilize. That's not surprising considering the bureaucracies that are usually tasked with making such determinations. Needless to say One American Soldier that has not been brought home is one to many!

Accessing this site, "Missing in Action" we read the following:"

Since the 1950s the DOD has listed thousands of military personnel as missing in action. There are more than 2,600 American servicemen listed as MIA from the Vietnam War; approximately 8,900 from the Korean War; and an additional 80,000 from World War II. If one considers only the immediate family members missing servicemen, the number of people affected by the MIA tragedy is in the hundreds of thousands.
Admittedly those numbers may be high. But then again they may not be because as one writer wrote:

"It is not conspiracy theory, not paranoid myth, not Rambo fantasy. It is only hard evidence of a national disgrace: American prisoners were left behind at the end of the Vietnam War. They were abandoned because six presidents and official Washington could not admit their guilty secret. They were forgotten because the press and most Americans turned away from all things that reminded them of Vietnam."[45] 
Wikipedia
Irregardless of the actual number it is to our national shame that "any" soldiers sent to a foreign land at the direction of their government to fight for what the government believes is a national security issue
are left behind by that very same government!

There are some who are trying to bury the issue, to pretend that an event, the Vietnam War, that came close to destroying this country never happened. As witnessed by the following bills introduced in congress attempting to form a committee to deal with the MIA issue that died:



Fortunately there are some who are not about to let this issue die and this session we have:
H. Res. 111: Establishing a Select Committee on POW and MIA Affairs
Full text of which can be found here, the operative words being:

RESOLUTION
Establishing a Select Committee on POW and MIA Affairs.
Resolved, That there is established in the House of Representatives a select committee to be known as the Select Committee on POW and MIA Affairs.
FUNCTIONS
Submitted by:
February 3, 2009
Mr. KING of New York (for himself, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mrs. BACHMANN, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mrs. BONO MACK, Mr. BOOZMAN, Mr. BOSWELL, Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania, Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida, Mr. BUCHANAN, Mr. BURGESS, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Mr. COBLE, Mr. COHEN, Mr. COSTELLO, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky, Mr. DAVIS of Tennessee, Mr. FORBES, Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN, Mr. GOHMERT, Ms. HARMAN, Mr. HELLER, Mr. HOLDEN, Mr. ISSA, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. LINDER, Mr. LOBIONDO, Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California, Mr. MACK, Mr. MANZULLO, Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. MCHENRY, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut, Mrs. MYRICK, Mr. PAUL, Mr. POE of Texas, Mr. PRICE of Georgia, Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. SOUDER, Mr. TERRY, Mr. WITTMAN, Mr. WOLF, Mr. WU, and Mr. YOUNG of Alaska) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules
So if  you do not see your representatives name on hear , then you know who to write Don't you!
And write and ask we must. It is only through citizen involvement that the truth of such matters will be known.  There are two many questions, not enough answers in issues relating to those who put their lives on the line for the country when asked, there should no unanswered questions.
Read ,
And many others like it that raise some concerning questions. In fact while looking for one piece of information I ran across so many stories similiar to above I was astounded and sickened.  I'm sure this is no surprise to the many families that still have no closure in regards to family members whose end has never met a final conclusion.  I hope it comes to somewhat of a surprise to some who have ignored this issue.
Remember: The third Friday of every September is POW/MIA recognition day.
Rember: nothing changes what you do not become involved in changing it!
Other links of interest regarding MIA/POW:

POW/MIA Links:

Archives:
More Links:

McCain and the POW Cover-up
http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/pow_mia/
http://www.rftw.org/index.asp?lg=1&w=pages&r=0&pid=88

From the  POW/MIA Tables of Honors
REMEMBER – all of you served with them and called them comrades, who depended upon their might and aid, and relied upon them, for surely, they have not forsaken you.
REMEMBER
HONOR ME WITH FLAGS IF YOU WILL
HONOR ME WITH PRAYERS AND PRAISE
BUT IF MY CAUSEE WAS DESERVING OF YOUR HONOR
THEN PICK UP MY RIFLE
SO THAT MY DEATH MAY NOT  HAVE BEEN IN VAINAdd to Technorati Favorites

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