May 2001
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May 30, 2001 Memorial Day
"Let us, then, at the time appointed, gather around their sacred remains and garland the passionless mounds above them with choicest flowers of springtime; let us raise above them the dear old flag they saved from dishonor; let us in this solemn presence renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom they have left among us as sacred charges upon the Nation's gratitude,-- the soldier's and sailor's widow and orphan."
May 29, 2001 50 Years Later... An Answer
Fifty years after losing her father to war on the Korean peninsula, Pat Dunton can finally do more than just imagine his fate. She can bury him. For all those years, she and her family waited and wondered: Did he die when his Air Force B-29 bomber was shot down? Did he survive, only to perish in a POW camp? What became of his remains? Now, this Memorial Day, answers.
May 29, 2001 Korean War Remains
Remains believed to be those of three American soldiers, missing in action from the Korean War, will be repatriated in formal ceremonies at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, on Wednesday, May 30, at 9 a.m., Hawaii time.
May 29, 2001 Korean War DNA
The Korean War Project site lists nearly 6,000 servicemen for whom the government needs a relative's DNA sample. About 2,500 people have given samples; the bodies of 20 people have been identified as a result.
May 29, 2001 Bataan
This is the way we like our soldiers to sound -- committed, comrade-loving, grateful for the opportunity to serve their country. But that is rarely the tenor of voice we hear from former POWs.
May 29, 2001 German Reparations
The German parliament voted Wednesday to free payments from a $4.6 billion fund for surviving Nazi-era slave laborers, finally providing a measure of justice to the victims.
May 28, 2001 Presidential Address - ALIVE Comment
"And on Memorial Day, we must remember a special group of veterans, Americans still missing and unaccounted for from Vietnam, Korea, the Cold War and World War II. We honor them today. They deserve and will have our best efforts to achieve the fullest possible accounting and, alive or dead, to return them home to America."
May 23, 2001 Peterson Resigns
A champion of reconciliation as the first post-war U.S. ambassador to Vietnam despite bitter experiences as its prisoner, Douglas "Pete" Peterson said on Wednesday he had resigned his post.
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May 21, 2001 Return the USS Pueblo
There is a movement to have the USS Pueblo, held captive by North Korea and exploited as a floating museum, to be returned. In addition, as a gesture of goodwill, it is asked that communist North Korea return her colors.
May 20, 2001 NAF Bits 'N' Pieces
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May 18, 2001 Humorous POW Film Planned
"Hogan's Heroes" have escaped the land of television reruns and are headed for the big screen. Variety reported on Friday that Revolution Studios has reached a deal to make a movie version of the '60s sitcom, which previously was in the hands of the defunct Destination Films.
May 17, 2001 Cuban Torture Program Hearing Transcript
On November 4th, 1999, the House Committee on International Relations heald a Hearing into -THE CUBAN PROGRAM: TORTURE OF AMERICAN PRISONERS BY CUBAN AGENTS - The full transcript has been added to the prepared statements in our Archives.
May 16, 2001 DPMO 2000 Annual Report
"As we enter a new century, I am especially proud to share with you the work of our outstanding people here at the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office. This annual report highlights their successes and their continuing challenges in seeking to achieve our national objectives."
May 15, 2001 Memorial Features 58,000 Dog Tags
For the First Time Outside of Washington D.C. the names of those killed in action will be displayed in a new permanent memorial at the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum.
May 15, 2001 NATO Countries & POWs
This is being sent around as a 'heads up' on an important issue that will be here and gone before we know it. As you all might recall, not long ago, former Soviet bloc countries Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic wanted to join NATO. Those of us in the POW/MIA community thought it would be fitting that, as a condition of entry into a military alliance with this country, these former Soviet sister countries provide meaningful cooperation with American efforts to learn the truth about Soviet practices of taking American servicemen.
May 13, 2001 Tuol Sleng Revisited
Day after day Nhem En peered at the prisoners through the lens of his box camera, barely giving a second glance at the ashen, hopeless faces he was recording for the bureaucracy of torture and death. Once photographed, the prisoners were taken to their cells inside S-21, the Khmer Rouge (news - web sites)'s most infamous torture center.
May 11, 2001 Bush Certifies Vietnam - Presidential Determination
Cooperation by Vietnam in Accounting for United States Prisoners of War and Missing in Action
May 10, 2001 Memorial Service
Seven U.S. servicemen who died so that others could go home were remembered last month at Fort Myer in Arlington at an emotional memorial service for the victims of a helicopter crash in Vietnam.
May 09, 2001 Revolutionary War POW Camp
Descendants of a British soldier who died at a prisoner-of-war camp near York during the American Revolution are hoping they can persuade the current owners of the land to refrain from putting a housing development there.
May 06, 2001 NAF Bits 'N' Pieces
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May 02, 2001 Recovery Team In North Korea
Department of Defense specialists have arrived in North Korea to begin operations to recover the remains of servicemen missing in action from the Korean War.
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