Update: Heal a Nations Shame-Leave none Behind-POW-MIA

On 6-29-09 we posted the following:

YOU CAN HELP HEAL A NATIONS SHAME-POW-MIA

Support:

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

Our Post pointed out 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

And what is happening in congress relating to this issue and how you can help. Following is an update:


June has been a good month, going from a slow start bringing it up to 36 cosponsors for June. If your congressman/woman isn't on yet as a cosponsor call him again and make sure you speak with the staff person that handles military and POW/MIA matters. Those of us that work Capital Hill often have to call the offices 10 times until they sign on, once a week to help get this on the agenda to bring before the congressmen. Calling and speaking to whoever answers the phone isn't good enough, you could wind up getting a summer student or new staffer who doesn't convey your message as you would.
You Can Call Congress Toll Free at 1-866/727-4894. Ask the operator for your congressman, then ask for the military and POW/MIA staff person, tell them to have the congressman cosponsor, we need him to sign on now.

H. Res. 111 :06/26/09, 177 co-sponsors, D = 92 = 51.9%;     R = 84 =  47.1%
State
Cosponsors
111th Congress - 2009
D
R
100%
Alas
  1/1
Young
1
100%
AL
  7/2
Aderholt, Griffith
1
1
AR
  4/2
Boozman, Ross,
1
1
AZ
  8/1
Mitchell,
1
CA
 53/15
Rohrabacher, Schiff, Harman, Lungren, Issa,
Bono, Capps, Tauscher, Cardoza, Calvert, Gallegly, McClintock, Bilbray, Filner, McNerney,
8
7
CO
  7/1
Perlmutter,
1
CT
  5/2
Murphy, Larson
2
Del
  1/
FL
 25/12
Buchanan, Mack, Brown-Waite, Klein, Diaz-Balart, Posey, Putnam, Meek, Sterns, Rooney, Kosmas, Miller
3
9
GA
 13/2
Price, Linder,
2
HI
  2/
ID
  2/
IO
  5/2
Boswell, Loebsack,
2
IL
 19/7
Manzullo, Costello, Foster, Shimkus, Johnson, Guttierez, Rush,
4
3
IN
  9/3
Souder, Burton, Donnelly
1
2
KY
  6/6
Rogers, Davis, Yarmuth, Chandler, Whitfield, Guthrie
2
4
100%
KS
  4/3
Moore, Tiahrt, Moran,
1
2
LA
  7/2
Flemming, Boustany, Cao,
3
MA
 10/
MD
  8/4
Sarbanes, Bartlett, Edwards, Cummings,
3
1
Maine
  2/2
Michaud, Pingree,
2
Mich
 15/2
Kildee, McCotter, Hoekstra,           
1
2
Miss
  4/
                  
MN
  8/8
Bachman, Paulsen, Ellisen, Oberstar, Peterson, Walz, Kline, McCollum,
5
3
100%
MO
  9/2
Emmerson, Akin,
2
Mont
  1/
Rehberg,
1
100%
Neb
  3/1
Terry,
1
Nev
  3/1
Heller,
1
NC
 13/7
Myrik, Foxx, Butterfield, Cobel, McHenry, Kissell, Miller,
3
4
ND
  1/
NH
  2/2

Shea-Porter, Hodes,
2
100%
NJ
 13/13
Rothman, Smith, LoBiondo, Frelinghuysen, Garrett, Lance, Holt, Pallone, Andrews, Payne, Sires, Pascrell, Adler
8
5
100%
NM
  3/1
Teague,
1
NY
 29/11
Ackerman, Crowley, Bishop, Maloney, Arcuri, Mccarthy, Israel, Rangle, Weiner, Clarke, Lowery,
11
OH
 18/7
Kaptur, Ryan, Jordan, LaTourette, Latta, Schmidt, Space,
3
4
OK
  5/1
Boren,
1
OR
  5/2
Wu, DeFazio,
2
PA
 19/13
Holden, Bradey, Murtha, Altmire, T.Murphy, Fattah, Platts, Dahlkemper, Schwartz, Carney, P.Murphy, Gerlack,
10
3
RI
  2/1
Langevine,
1
SC
  6/3
Brown, Inglis, Wilson,
3
SD
  1/1
Sandlin,
1
TN
  9/7
Davis, Cohen, Blackburn, Gordon, Roe, Wamp, Tanner,  
4
3
TX
 32/11
Paul, Poe, Gohmert, Burgess, McCaul, Sessions, Olson, Neugebauer, Marchant, Johnson, Hall, Granger
1
11
UT
  3/
VA
 11/6
Moran, Wolf, Wittman, Scott, Forbes, Connolly,
3
3
VT
  1/
WA
  9/
WI
  8/3
Sensenbrenner, Baldwin, Kagen,
2
1
WV
  3/1
Capito,
1
WY
  1/1
Lummis,
1
100
GU,VI, M DC,PR,SA
  5/2
Christensen, Bordallo,
2
Totals
177/435
= 40.6 %
92
85


Progress has been made. BUT "progress" is not "succeeding".  Which means now is not the time to give up if we want to "win" the goal of insuring that  "America does not rest until "ALL" who have served her have been accounted for!"

So again , Get on the on the phone and call your congressman/woman. It's a free call the only cost is a couple of minutes of your time. Ask them to support :

 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

HOWEVER you  must call, our experience is that e-mails only give them another address to send their news letters to.

Below we include the links that were posted with the original post should you need more info:

Letter From the:

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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