News-Info-Alerts

To: ALL

From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci

(POW-MIA InterNetwork)

Re: NLF Update

Date: July 19, 2001

"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 7/19/01.

July 19 Today, the League learned that 5 Americans whose remains were jointly recovered in South Vietnam have now been identified. The remains of one, a KIA/BNR on October 6, 1969, were jointly recovered on November 20, 2000. The other four were lost on august 3, 1967, and their remains were jointly recovered on June 8, 1994. On July 16th, the League learned that two Americans whose remains were jointly recovered in Laos and repatriated on February 11, 2000 are now accounted for. All of these names will be announced as soon as released by DoD.
Vietnam The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on June 26th regarding the bilateral US-Vietnam trade agreement that is expected to sail through the Senate with little opposition. Senate passage of NTR, or normal trade relations status, will likely follow soon thereafter. Nevertheless, the League is looking forward, not backward, and has no interest in trying to restore leverage squandered during the Clinton Administration. The League will continue to focus on improving the accounting effort to increase answers for the families.

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: "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 1,959 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"