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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci

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Re: Post Office To BE Named For Former POW

Date: June 03, 2000

Eight Maryland lawmakers have joined forces to co-sponsor legislation that will name a Maryland Post Office for Ex-POW Everett Alvarez, Jr.Alvarez was the first POW captured in Vietnam who endured eight and a half years of captivity from 1964 until his release during Operation Homecoming in 1973.

Alvarez was the first shootdown during the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and was sent to the notorious Hanoi Hilton. The first year and a half he spent in solitary confinement, eating notinhg other than rice with cockroaches or dead birds.

The movement to name the Montgomery County PO is a welcome sign. Not very long ago just getting the USPO to fly a POW-MIA flag, and the battle to get a POW-MIA stamp honoring POWs from ALL wars was a protracted battle many years long.

To Everett Alvarez and all the former POWs from ALL wars, welcome home!

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