…Offers Insight into Captivity.
"It's National POW/MIA Recognition Day today, observed on the third Friday in September. There will probably be no cars, furniture or carpet on sale this weekend, but please take a moment to remember those who served as prisoners of war and the thousands who remain missing in action since World War II.
The POW/MIA flag, made official by Congress in 1990, may be flown six days a year, smaller and always below the United States flag: Armed Forces Day (third Saturday in May); Memorial Day (last Monday in May); Flag Day (June 14); Independence Day (July 4); National POW/MIA Recognition Day (third Friday in September), and Veterans' Day (Nov. 11).
The day of recognition was created in the 1998 Defense Authorization Act, stating the annual event "honors prisoners of war and our missing and their families, and highlights the government's commitment to account for them."
And yet thousands remain unaccounted: World War II has at least 73,000 missing plus those lost at sea; 7,500 from the Korean War, 1,600 from Vietnam, 126 during the clandestine operations of the Cold War years, and two from Desert Storm. Both of those missing are Navy pilots whose planes went down in the Persian Gulf: Lt. Cmdr. Barry T. Cooke, flying an A-6 aircraft on Feb. 2, 1991, followed by Lt. Robert J. Dwyer, in his FA-18 aircraft on Feb. 5, 1991…"
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