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To: ALL

From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci

(POW-MIA InterNetwork)

Re: NLF Update

Date: November 25, 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 11/20/00.

Press Release NATIONAL LEAGUE OF POW/MIA FAMILIES DECLINES PARTICIPATION IN PRESIDENT'S DELEGATION TO VIETNAM: The National League of POW/MIA Families has declined the Administration's invitation to participate in President Clinton's upcoming trip to Vietnam. The League has participated in numerous official delegations, as well as several League-only trips, to Vietnam beginning in 1982 and continuing through 1999. Our experience shows that concrete results are unlikely in large delegations or where priorities are not clear. Click here to read the entire document.

Vietnam A US team of 93 personnel is still conducting field operations in Vietnam. Joint investigations and excavations on 32 cases were scheduled in 23 separate provinces, one of which was visited by President Clinton and two of the children of Capt. Lawrence Evert, USAF, an American still unaccounted for from that incident.

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.

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 & A Q:


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 Federal Tax ID #23-7071242