News-Info-Alerts

To: ALL

From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci

(POW-MIA InterNetwork)

Re: NLF Update Line

Date: November 09, 2000

Update Line
The League has a 24-hour, 7 day a week update line. Please call 202-659-0133 to find out the latest detailed information regarding the POW/MIA issue or click here to see the text online. The last update was 11/6/00.

Annual Meeting The League recently finalized the date and location for our 32nd Annual Meeting that will be held June 21-25th, 2001, at Crystal City's DoubleTree Hotel, across the Potomac River from Washington, DC. Family members and concerned supporters are urged to start planning now to attend this important first meeting of a new administration. We again anticipate DOD-sponsored, round-trip travel for this meeting for two family members per missing man.

November 13 AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, the longest running history series on television, salutes the bravery and resourcefulness of Vietnam POWs in its documentary "Return With Honor" airing on Monday, November 13 at 9pm ET on PBS. More than twenty veterans describe their captivity and their struggle to survive years of imprisonment, isolation, and torture. Their moving accounts are combined with rare archival footage to create an inspiring tale of personal heroism. Click here (www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/honor/) to visit the official website.

July 27 On March 30, 2000, Executive Director Ann Mills Griffiths wrote a letter to both Al Gore and George W. Bush. The letter began, "I am writing on behalf of the POW/MIA families to obtain information as to what your policy would be to account as fully as possible for America's POW/MIAs if elected President of the United States in November." Click here to read the full text of Ann's letter. Click here to read Mr. Bush's response and click here to read Mr. Gore's response.

Flag By law, the League's POW/MIA flag flew over the White House, US Capitol and most U.S. Government buildings, all major military installations and federal cemeteries and all offices of the US Postal Service. Our POW/MIA flag will next fly on Veterans Day, November 11th, and listeners are urged to check to ensure that your local post office is adhering to this law.

Virginia Residents Effective July 1, a bill was passed to allow production of special license plates with the POW/MIA logo . Before production can begin, DMV must receive 350 PREPAID applications. Click here for more information.

Important Link http://www.cilhi.army.mil/ - The United States Army Central Identification Laboratory, Hawaii. CILHI has a threefold mission:

1) Search for, recover, and identify remains of American military personnel, certain American civilian personnel, and certain allied personnel unaccounted for from World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and other conflicts and contingencies.
2)Conduct humanitarian missions as directed by competent authority.
3)Provide technical assistance in these matters as requested by the appropriate geographic Commander-in-Chief (CINC).

Q: "Our state recently enacted legislation requiring the display of the POW-MIA flag at state and municipal buildings. Is there any official protocol as to where it should be displayed when on a pole along with the US and state flag."
A: "The flag, since it pertains to missing Americans from across the country, flies beneath the US flag and, if on the same pole with the state flag, beneath the US flag and above the state flag. Of course, it is preferable that there be more than one flag pole if three flags are to be flown, but it isn't always possible. If there are two or three separate flag poles, the POW/MIA flag just flies a bit lower than the US flag, as all other do."

Current Status There are 1,992 Americans still missing and unaccounted for from the Vietnam War.
E-Mail The Official e-mail address for The National League of POW/MIA Families is info@pow-miafamilies.org

The National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia
1001 Connecticut Avenue
Northwest, Suite 919
Washington, D.C. 20036-5504
(TEL) 202-223-6846