June 2003
Summary of news for the entire month.
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June 30, 2003 IRAQ - Another Family MIA "Joke"
Time for Congress to pass H.R.1771 "To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit knowingly misinforming the relative of a member of the Armed Forces of the United States that such member is deceased, injured, or missing due to an event associated with their military service."
June 30, 2003 WW II - River Kwai Bridge Museum
Rod Beattie sweeps a metal detector over a watermelon field along the River Kwai where six decades ago 2,000 Allied prisoners of war perished. The detector buzzes, and the wiry Australian anxiously claws the earth with his bare hands. "This is just brilliant," he says, breaking up a clod of soil to reveal a brass badge, a neat likeness of a propeller airplane perhaps crafted by a captured airman longing for the free, blue skies.
June 30, 2003 IRAQ - Ex-POW Hernandez Re-Enlists & Gets Married
Specialist Hernandez who was one of eight prisoners of war in Iraq decides to give another four years to the Army and a lifetime to his girlfriend. Friday he became the second ex-POW from Fort Bliss to re-enlist in the Army.
June 30, 2003 WW II - Former Camp Mates Remember Captivity
Pfc. LaVere "Si" Cortright weighed 180 pounds when he was captured in Normandy by German forces in 1944. When he was liberated from a prisoner of war camp 10 months later, the Army infantry soldier had lost 60 pounds.
June 30, 2003 SEA - Jane Fonda Radio Hanoi Broadcast
The following public domain information is a transcript from the US Congress House Committee on Internal Security, Travel to Hostile Areas, HR 16742, 19-25 September, 1972, page 671. "This is Jane Fonda. During my two week visit in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, I've had the opportunity to visit a great many places and speak to a large number of people from all walks of life--workers, peasants, students, artists and dancers, historians, journalists, film actresses, soldiers, militia girls, members of the women's union, writers."
June 30, 2003 WW II - New Book
Review & Info
June 30, 2003 IRAQ - DoD News Release
The Department of Defense announced today a change in status of two soldiers listed as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown on June 25 to killed in action.
June 29, 2003 SEA - Kerry, Protesters & POWs
Last December, former POW Michael Benges told the Washington Times that retired Gen. George S. Patton III lumped Kerry in with Fonda and Clark, complaining that they had all "given aid and comfort to the enemy." Even the most famous POW of all, Sen. John McCain, later revealed that his North Vietnamese captors used reports about the Kerry-led protest to taunt him and his fellow prisoners.
June 29, 2003 IRAQ - Speicher, Rebuilding Focus of Iraq Trip
"We're going to focus on the current security situation (for U.S. forces) and the overall rebuilding effort" in Iraq, Roberts said, along with the ongoing search for weapons of mass destruction and for missing Gulf War pilot Scott Speicher, a special interest for Roberts.
June 29, 2003 SEA - Finnish US Special Forces MIA Laid to Rest at Arlington
The legendary Finnish war hero Lauri Törni has been laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetary in the United States. Törni went missing in action while serving in US special forces in Vietnam nearly 40 years ago. His remains were only recently identified.
June 29, 2003 IRAQ - 2 MIA Soldiers Found KIA
The bodies of two American soldiers missing since Wednesday have been discovered, a senior Army officer said today. The two soldiers and their Humvee had disappeared near the town of Balad, 25 miles north of Baghdad. Military officials conducted an intensive search by air and ground for the men, and one official said searchers located the missing vehicle about 6 p.m. on Friday.
June 28, 2003 IRAQ - Missing US Soldiers Found Dead
U.S. forces, including Apache attack helicopters, have been scouring the area around Balad. U.S. interrogators have been questioning at least six men arrested in the disappearance.
June 28, 2003 IRAQ - DoD Identifies MIA Soldiers
The Department of Defense announced today the identities of two soldiers whose status has been listed as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown. The soldiers failed to respond to a radio check on June 25, South of Balad, Iraq. A search party was sent to the location of their last radio transmission.
June 28, 2003 IRAQ - Fedayeen Abductors Believed to be Abductors
US military intelligence believes that Fedayeen militia abducted two US soldiers and their Humvee light armoured vehicle for use in attacks on US troops in Iraq, an army officer said yesterday.
June 28, 2003 Exhibit Celebrates POWs Sacrifice
One hundred and forty-six men, former "roommates" in cells the size of walk-in closets, gathered for a reunion Friday at the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace. They ate, they drank. They viewed a new exhibit "Open Doors: Vietnam POWs 30 Years Later" that told their stories in pictures and words.
June 28, 2003 Jennings Speech at National League of Families Meeting
The quest to account for missing servicemen from the Vietnam, Korean and Cold War and World War II "is unwavering, untiring and will not fail!" Jerry D. Jennings told the audience during the 34th annual National League of Families conclave here June 27.
June 27, 2003 PGW - Congressmen Head to Iraq in Search of Speicher
Roberts will be examining the U.S. hunt for weapons of mass destruction and the search for missing Gulf War airman Scott Speicher, according to Armed Services chairman John Warner, R-Va.
June 27, 2003 KW - CW - Korean War MIA Honored
Half a world away from the cold, bleak hillside where he died almost 53 years ago, a Korean War hero finally received his military headstone Monday.
June 27, 2003 IRAQ - 3 Iraqis Held in Missing GI Case
Three Iraqis were arrested Friday in the possible abduction of two U.S. soldiers north of Baghdad, a military spokesman said.
June 27, 2003 POW Benefits Extended
Veterans Affairs Undersecretary for Health Dr. Robert Roswell spoke Monday, June 23, at a conference at the Marriott Inn on care and benefits for former prisoners of war.
June 27, 2003 National POW-MIA Day 2003 Poster
POW/MIA Recognition Day isn't until Sept. 19, but, as with tradition, this year's poster was unveiled June 26 during a national organization's annual meeting, according to Jerry D. Jennings. The unveiling took place during the convening here of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia June 26-28.
June 27, 2003 WW II - Time Marches On: Former German POW Camp Rezoned
The camp was originally built to house Civilian Conservation Corps workers during the Great Depression, and was later used as a German prisoner of war camp during World War II.
June 27, 2003 PGW - US Asks About Missing Pilot
U.S. forces interrogating some Iraqi prisoners are seeking details about the case of Navy pilot Michael Scott Speicher, missing since his fighter jet was shot down on the opening night of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday.
June 27, 2003 KW - CW - Remembering A POW Brother
On a chilly December morning in 1953, Ruth Fellows and her family buried their son and brother, James, in the Westminster cemetery. The Korean War was over and he had been missing in action for three years and three months.
June 26, 2003 IRAQ - 2 US Soldiers Missing, Reportedly Abducted
Pentagon officials confirmed that two U.S. soldiers were missing and that an extensive search was being made for them in the Baghdad area. The soldiers were traveling in a military Humvee near a checkpoint in the vicinity of Baghdad when their commanders lost contact with them late Wednesday, officials said.
June 26, 2003 WW II - Never Forgotten, POW Who Perished Gets Plaque
But it wasn't until two years later, his family learned he was a POW. Two months later they were notified of Harold's death.
June 26, 2003 Bizarre - POW Chicken Lawsuit
Rival chickens are heading for court in a multi-million-pound battle over who dreamed up the plot for one of the most successful animated films ever made. The might of Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks studio is being challenged by an author in rural Sussex who claims that he, rather than Peter Lord and Nick Park, created the story on which the film Chicken Run was based.
June 26, 2003 WW II - A Painful Secret
In World War IIıs waning days, 21-year-old Jo Oka, a Japanese Imperial Army soldier, was wounded and lying in a cot in the dark cave that served as an Imperial Japanese Army field hospital in Haebaru, in southern Okinawa. The cave hospital was filled with more than 2,000 seriously wounded soldiers. No treatment was given to them. Instead, they were given poison.
June 25, 2003 PGW - Speicher Family Wants Efforts Stepped Up
With Operation Iraqi Freedom completed, the family of missing pilot Captain Scott Speicher wants the military to step up its efforts to locate him. Since Operation Iraqi Freedom began there has been promising news about Captain Speicher. At one point military officials thought they found his initials on a prison wall. However, while there is continued optimism there is a sense of frustration because of the lack of information coming out of Iraq.
June 25, 2003 PGW - Speicher Meeting
A special U.S. intelligence team in Iraq has searched a half-dozen graves and more than 40 locations in Iraq but has not found missing naval aviator Capt. Michael Scott Speicher, defense officials say.
June 25, 2003 PGW - Desperately Seeking Speicher
Florida Senator Bill Nelson will be at a classified meeting in Washington to talk about missing Navy pilot Scott Speicher.
June 25, 2003 PGW - US Still Looking for Speicher
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said officials are interrogating Iraqi prisoners about the fate of a U.S. pilot missing since 1991. But Rumsfeld wouldn't say whether there any new clues about Navy flier Scott Speicher.
June 24, 2003 - Helping the Survivors Heal
They endured the worst. Their diet consisted of scraps of black bread. Guards beat them. Lice covered their bodies. Their feet froze. When the horror ended, they couldn't talk about it.
June 24, 2003 KW - CW - MIA Honored Half A World Away
Though his body remains in North Korea, a service was held for Cpl. Andrew J. Gasquet Jr. at Baton Rouge National Cemetery, just four blocks from the house where he grew up.
June 23, 2003 IRAQ - US Investigates POW Abuse Allegations
The way Riad Fadel Hamza tells the story, the six days he spent in US military detention were a horror show of abuse. "They poured water on me and used electricity," Mr. Hamza says, pointing to a graze on his forearm, as a cluster of Iraqis around him nod sympathetically. "They shocked me repeatedly."
June 23, 2003 PGW - Remains of 300 Iranian MIAs to be Exchanged
Iran is to hold a week of mourning ceremonies for 300 martyrs of the eight-year Iraqi-imposed war whose remains will be arriving in Tehran on July 7.
June 23, 2003 WW II - The Will to Live
Eighty-year-old Howard Hurt of South Knoxville recounts his gruesome experiences as a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany after he was captured in the Battle of the Bulge.
June 23, 2003 KW - CW - Assorted Cold War - Korean War Stories
Playwright George Axelrod passed away at the age of 81. Axelrod wrote the screenplay for the Cold War drama, The Manchurian Candidate.
June 22, 2003 - POW-MIA Freedom Radio Broadcast Schedule
News and Views :: MSgt John C. Burnam, USA (ret) :: George "Gunny" Fallon
June 21, 2003 WW II & SEA - SEA & WW II MIAs Finally Laid to Rest
17 servicemen from two different wars were buried with full honors at Arlington National Cemetery in two separate services. Nine Navy crewmembers, missing in action from the Vietnam era, were seen to their final resting-place in Section 60 by around 200 relatives and friends. And, three Army pilots and five soldier passengers from a World War II B-25 mission finally were interred directly next to the sailors, a little over an hour later.
June 21, 2003 IRAQ - R&R For Rescuers
Three months ago, they were in Iraq saving the lives of two army pilots and five other soldiers captured and imprisoned for weeks. Now the young Marines are spending their first few days on U.S. soil in Las Vegas this weekend.
June 21, 2003 WW II - US Seeks Executed Pilot in Kamchatka
Americans searching for tomb of US pilot shot by Japanese in 1945 in Kamchatka. Representatives of the Russian-US Joint Commission for Prisoners-of-War and Missing in Action will be working in the Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia's Far East) on June 20-30.
June 21, 2003 WW II - What's In A Name?
POW, or Prisoner of War, a term many believe they've come to know, reduces extraordinary circumstances to so little. The exception to that rule is when, over years of use, the abbreviation itself becomes like a word in colloquial language. POW has that distinction.
June 21, 2003 IRAQ - US Marine Cherishes Memory of Liberating Kuwaiti POW
He recalled one day when one of his unit's doctors delivered a child. But his most cherished memory of his time in Iraq will be of liberating a Kuwaiti national who had spent more than a decade as a prisoner of war after the first Gulf War in 1991.
June 21, 2003 WW II - Flags Stolen From Ex-POW's Grave
Her brother's grave was bare. The American flag, half the size of a newspaper, was gone. So was the black prisoner-of-war flag she had hammered into the ground.
June 21, 2003 SEA - John Kerry & the POW Issue
Among those who harbored a simmering distrust of Kerry was a fellow Vietnam veteran, Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona. McCain, tortured as a prisoner of war in Hanoi, had campaigned for Kerry's opponent in 1984, denouncing the Democrat for joining the veterans who tossed medals and ribbons over a barricade at the Capitol during a 1971 antiwar rally. The North Vietnamese had taunted the American POWs with accounts of that protest.
June 20, 2003 IRAQ - Blind Worker Made Ex-POWs' Uniforms
Workers at Blind Industries and Services of Maryland are a cut above the rest when it comes to making Army battle dress uniforms and other military attire.
June 20, 2003 KW - CW - Forgotten No Longer
Still, he said, when it is finished it will be a reminder of the 8,000 soldiers missing in action in Korea, ³those brave men we will never see again.²
June 20, 2003 WW II - Vet Recalls Years as POW
The English language, for all its complexity, can be brutally simplistic. POW, or Prisoner of War, a term many believe they've come to know, reduces extraordinary circumstances to so little. The exception to that rule is when, over years of use, the abbreviation itself becomes like a word in colloquial language. POW has that distinction.
June 20, 2003 WW II - Aviators Dreamed of Skies to Conquer
They dared the skies, fending off enemy threats, taking bullets, risking their lives. Now, decades later, these airmen and women tell their stories on the air show circuit.
June 20, 2003 - New Book: GULAG
Review and Info
June 19, 2003 IRAQ - MIA-KIA Families Still Wait for Answers
The families of Fort Bliss' 507th Maintenance Company are still waiting to be told the official story of the March 23 ambush in Iraq, despite learning about the attack from a prematurely released congressional report leaked to the media Friday.
June 19, 2003 IRAQ - Former POWs Get Scholarships
The former POW's from Fort Bliss' 507th Maintenance Company are getting some help getting an education.
June 19, 2003 - POW Experience Becomes Game
June 19, 2003 PGW - Kuwaiti POW Files To Be Kept Open
The file of Kuwaiti POWs issue will remain open, and will only be closed until the fate of each and every Kuwaiti POW, is known, Sheikh Dr Mohammad Al-Sabah, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and acting Finance and Planning Minister told KUNA here Monday.
June 18, 2003 SEA - He Knew the Look In Their Eyes
When the American POWs were shown on TV at the start of the war in Iraq, Bob Naughton immediately recognized the look in their eyes. Their wide-eyed look was a look of sheer terror, he told members of Space Center Rotary during a luncheon address. He knew it oh so well after spending seven years in Vietnam as a prisoner of war.
June 18, 2003 SEA - Ex-POW's Autobiography Still Selling
The autobiography Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Plano, wrote to chronicle his capture, imprisonment and eventual freedom as an aviator during the Vietnam War continues to pay him royalties.
June 18, 2003 WW II - Ex-POW Receives HS Diploma ³Operation Recognition² was created last year after the Pennsylvania School Code was amended to allow men and women who left high school to fight in World War II to graduate. This years veterans of the Korean War were included in the program.
June 18, 2003 WW II - Remembering a Brother and a Hero
Thomas Fox served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a radio man and rear gunner, reaching the rank of technical sergeant in the 50th Reconnaissance Squadron. He was stationed inHickam Field, Hawaii, when Pearl Harbor was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941, and was declared missing in action in June 1943 when his B-17 bomber did not return from a mission in New Guinea.
June 17, 2003 WW II - Honoring the Fallen
June 17, 2003 IRAQ - Rescuing the Facts About POW
Lynch and fellow soldier Piestewa were brought to an Iraqi hospital after their capture. Piestewa dies shortly after arrival, The Post reports.
June 17, 2003 WW II - Flypast Planned
A Spitfire flypast will mark an emotional reunion at Horham Airfield's open day on Sunday. The event will see the first meeting between a Dutchman who saw a World War Two American pilot bailing out of his aircraft during the war and the airman's brother.
June 16, 2003 SEA - A Final Honor
For 35 years, Rebecca Siow missed her husband Gale like a phantom limb: there but not there, the Navy airman who disappeared during the Vietnam War brought pain and uncertainty every time she thought of him.
June 16, 2003 SEA - NLF Update Line
Family Update News
June 16, 2003 IRAQ - MIA/KIA Posthumously Decorated
Sloan had been classified as missing in action until the Pentagon confirmed his death April 3, when his body, along with 10 others, was discovered at the hospital in Nasiriyah where Jessica Lynch had been rescued. He was 19 years old.
June 15, 2003 - POW-MIA Freedom Radio Broadcast Schedule
News and Views :: Ms. Lynn O'Shea :: Ms. Vicki Wells
June 15, 2003 IRAQ - REP Buyer - Thanks, But No Thanks
The congressman said an aide with the Army Reserves told him there would be positions available in the war for which he was qualified. A lawyer, Buyer had served as a reservist in prisoner of war camps during the Persian Gulf War.
June 15, 2003 IRAQ - PGW - 2nd Kuwaiti POW ID'd in Iraq Grave
Kuwait said on Saturday it had identified the remains of a second Kuwaiti national discovered at a mass grave in Iraq as a prisoner of war missing since Iraq's 1990 invasion of the Gulf Arab state.
June 14, 2003 - Flag Day
Even in the worst of circumstances, Americans have managed to make a flag. In honor of Flag Day, here are two extraordinary images. On the left, a flag made by an American POW in captivity and on the right, an American serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom making a flag from stones.
June 14, 2003 SEA - US, Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia to Meet
The United States, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos will meet for the first time to discuss working together to locate and repatriate soldiers who remain unaccounted for from the Vietnam War, a top U.S. official on recovery efforts said Friday.
June 14, 2003 SEA - DPMO Head in Vietnam for Talks
The senior U.S. government official responsible for policy oversight of accounting for POWs and MIAs arrived in Vietnam Tuesday for a seven-day visit. Jerry D. Jennings, deputy assistant secretary of Defense for POW/Missing Personnel Affairs, will end his visit to Vietnam next week in Ho Chi Minh City, after spending several days in Hanoi meeting with the national leadership of Vietnam and senior wartime leaders.
June 13, 2003 - Flag House, Key & the Anthemn
From the courtyard, the 1,260 square feet of red, white and blue glass shimmers as a vivid illustration of the national anthem's inspiration.
June 13, 2003 WW II - POW Sculpture
One of the highlights is a sculpture of Prisoner of War Jack Sharpe, who was born in Leicester in 1914 and died in 2002. It has been created by mature student Tony Brett.
June 13, 2003 KW - CW - Forgotten War Vets Remember
"What was the worst day of your military career?" Slavin said the manual promised if the boat was moving fast enough through the mines, it would remain safe. His crew quickly learned this was untrue. "When you get hit, you throw the book overboard," he said.
June 12, 2003 IRAQ - Johnson Honored
A former prisoner of war honored by lawmakers is calling for prayers for soldiers in Iraq and elsewhere.
June 12, 2003 SEA - You Wonder If You'll Survive
Naughton, had the misfortune to be incarcerated in a Vietnam prison when his Navy jet was shot down and he was captured by Vietnamese peasants in a rice paddy.
June 12, 2003 - Fort Devens Museum
Steve Sugar never forgot a book he read about the Bataan Death March, the horrid World War II episode in which Japanese captors brutalized American prisoners-of-war.
June 12, 2003 SEA - A Tribute to Comrades
The dream - the labor of love, dedication and remembrance - comes to fruition on Saturday in Port St. Lucie with the dedication of the Florida Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall.
June 12, 2003 IRAQ - US to Investigate POW Death
The military is investigating whether US troops were responsible for the death of an Iraqi prisoner of war, officials said yesterday.
June 11, 2003 - LEGIS - HR 1771
Considering the incredible number of fraudulent, phony reports of MIA, KIA, WIA and POW made to family members during Operation Iraqi Freedom, the following is a wonderful idea. The only problem is that even if it does make it to the books, how many law enforecement agencies will be able to enforce it? Considering the anonymous nature of most of the contacts, it will be interesting to see what is offered as a means of identifying the perpetrators.
June 10, 2003 - Vet Climbs, Names, Mount POW/MIA
On Saturday a group of cadets in Colony High School Army Jr. ROTC participated in an annual climb up Mount POW/MIA, a 4,314-foot summit in the Chugach Range. Mount POW/MIA was named by 61-year-old John Morrisey, a Vietnam veteran from New York State. Morrisey said it took him three decades and four trips to Alaska to secure Mount POW/MIA as the official name for the mountain.
June 10, 2003 WW II - Lost Airman Mystery Solved
For more than 55 years, the men had been listed as missing in action after their Lancaster was hit by anti-aircraft fire north of Berlin.
June 10, 2003 PGW - 149 Kuwaiti POWs Determined Dead
The National Committee for Missing and POWs Affairs (NCMPA) Monday telephoned 149 Kuwaiti families of POWs to inform them of the death of their children who were captured by Iraqi forces during the 1990-1991 occupation of Kuwait.
June 10, 2003 - Iran Seeks 8,700 MIAs in Iraq
Iran has cited US obstructions for halting the search for the remains of its soldiers within Iraq which was once a battle field during the 1980-1988 Iraqi-imposed war, IRNA reported.
June 10, 2003 PGW - Former Army POW Retraces Captivity
Army Col. Martin Stanton has been in Iraq before - as a prisoner of war. In 1990, Stanton was a 33-year-old major advising the 2nd Brigade, Saudi Arabian National Guard. In those days, officers got the occasional four-day weekend.
June 09, 2003 - Remembering Those We Left Behind
Navy Capt. Red McDaniel, who survived 6 years as a POW in North Vietnam, sums up the issue: "I was prepared to fight, to be wounded, to be captured, and even prepared to die, but I was not prepared to be abandoned."
June 09, 2003 - EVENT - Annual Freedom Ride
June 09, 2003 - War & POW Rescues From a Living Room Console
Men of Valor: The Vietnam War is an historical action experience that portrays infantry combat during the Vietnam War. Combining the latest Unreal technology with the gameplay expertise of 2015, Men of Valor immerses the player in the humid jungles of Southeast Asia in the most controversial conflict of the modern era.
June 09, 2003 LEGIS - S J RES 13
To designate April 9, 2004, as `National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day'.
June 09, 2003 LEGIS - S 60 IS
To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize certain disabled former prisoners of war to use Department of Defense commissary and exchange stores.
June 09, 2003 LEGIS - HR 2206 IH
To designate a Prisoner of War /Missing in Action National Memorial at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California.
June 09, 2003 LEGIS - HR 2224 IH
To provide for the payment of claims of United States prisoners of war in the First Gulf War , and for other purposes.
June 09, 2003 LEGIS - S 66 IS
To amend title 5, United States Code, to require the issuance of a prisoner -of-war medal to civilian employees of the Federal Government who are forcibly detained or interned by an enemy government or a hostile force under wartime conditions.
June 09, 2003 LEGIS - H CON 210 IH
Honoring Army Specialist Shoshana Nyree Johnson, former prisoner of war in Iraq.
June 09, 2003 LEGIS - S 517 IS
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide improved benefits for veterans who are former prisoners of war.
June 09, 2003 LEGIS - HR 1864 IH
To preserve certain actions in Federal court brought by members of the United States Armed Forces held as prisoners of war by Japan during World War II against Japanese nationals seeking compensation for mistreatment or failure to pay wages in connection with labor performed in Japan to the benefit of the Japanese nationals, and for other purposes.
June 09, 2003 LEGIS - H CON 151 IH
Extending the thanks of Congress and a grateful nation to the Iraqis Mohammed and Iman for their brave actions against oppression and tyranny in providing to United States forces, at great risk to themselves, information essential for the rescue of Private First Class Jessica Lynch, United States Army, on April 1, 2003.
June 09, 2003 LEGIS - H RES 103 IH
Establishing a Select Committee on POW and MIA Affairs.
June 09, 2003 LEGIS - S CON RES 40
Designating August 7, 2003, as `National Purple Heart Recognition Day'.
June 09, 2003 LEGIS - HR 850 IH
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide special compensation for former prisoners of war , and for other purposes.
June 09, 2003 LEGIS - HR 2106 IH
To permit Members of the House of Representatives to use funds provided in Member's Representational Allowances to obtain POW/MIA flags and distribute them to constituents.
June 09, 2003 LEGIS - H RES 62
Recognizing the courage and sacrifice of those members of the United States Armed Forces who were held as prisoners of war during the Vietnam conflict and calling for a full accounting of the 1,902 members of the Armed Forces who remain unaccounted for from the Vietnam conflict.
June 09, 2003 LEGIS - HR 1703 IH
To preserve certain actions in Federal court brought by members of the United States Armed Forces held as prisoners of war by Japan during World War II against Japanese nationals seeking compensation for mistreatment or failure to pay wages in connection with labor performed in Japan to the benefit of the Japanese nationals, and for other purposes.
June 09, 2003 LEGIS - HR 358 IH
To amend title 38, United States Code, to enact into law eligibility requirements for burial in Arlington National Cemetery, and for other purposes.
June 09, 2003 LEGIS - HCON 118 IH
Concerning the treatment of members of the Armed Forces held as prisoner of war by Iraqi authorities.
June 09, 2003 SEA - Carlisle Graduate Moves on to Recovery TDY
150 years later, Carlisle Barracks is still "shaping" its graduates. Inarguably the finest War College with the finest of graduates, Carlisle has a dark, hideous history that will never go away.
June 09, 2003 PGW - DNA Identifies Kuwaiti POW from 1990-1991
The remains of a Kuwaiti prisoner of war (POW) who was taken from the country during the 1990-1991 Iraqi occupation have been found in a mass grave in southern Iraq, a Kuwait minister said Sunday. DNA testing revealed the remains belonged to Saad Meshal Aswad Al-Enezi, said the Deputy Premier and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, Mohammed Diefallah Sharar.
June 09, 2003 SEA - Ending 35 Years of Doubt
On Jan. 11, 1968, U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Gale Siow was high above the jungles of Laos on a covert mission to drop sensors on the heavily guarded Ho Chi Minh Trail. The sensors were to detect movements of munitions by the enemy, but the mission ended when the plane and its nine-member crew plunged suddenly into the mist.
June 08, 2003 SEA - Lance Sijan Honored
Long before Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch was born, Air Force Capt. Lance Sijan was setting a standard for genuine heroism among U.S. prisoners of war.
June 08, 2003 WW II - Book Review: Captured Honor
Captured Honor: POW Survival in the Philippines and Japan is a true account of the experiences of eight American servicemen who were held as prisoners of war by the Japanese during World War II.
June 08, 2003 SEA - Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Eventually, he escaped down a cliff and spent 10 days eating insects and working his way toward an American camp before the North Vietnamese captured him.
June 08, 2003 Memorial Day 2003 Arlington Remarks
And today we remember all who have died, all who are still missing and all who mourn. And on this day, especially, our nation is grateful to the brave and fallen defenders of freedom. In every generation of Americans we have found courage equal to the tasks of our country. The farms and small towns and city streets of this land have always produced free citizens who assume the discipline and duty of military life. And time after time, they have proven that the moral force of democracy is mightier than the will and cunning of any tyrant.
June 07, 2003 POW-MIA Freedom Radio Broadcast Schedule
News and Views :: Larry J. O'Daniel
June 07, 2003 IRAQ - Williams Recounts Capture & Captivity
After being brutally captured and beaten, David Williams and his copilot endured three weeks of torment in a series of decrepit prisons I Said, ³Please, God, Donıt Kill Me
June 07, 2003 KW - CW - Cover-Up Claimed in Alleged Defector's Case
The nephew of a U.S. soldier who allegedly deserted to North Korea nearly 40 years ago claims the U.S. Army - unable to provide key documents - is covering up his uncleıs abduction.
June 07, 2003 IRAQ - Piestewa Scholarship Fund
Piestewa, a member of the 507th Maintenance Unit, is the only woman killed in Operation Iraq Freedom and is believed to be the nation's first Native American woman ever killed in combat. She and other members of her unit were ambushed March 23 near Nasiriyah, Iraq. She was one of 11 soldiers listed as "missing in action" for almost two weeks. On April 4, the Pentagon confirmed her death.
June 06, 2003 IRAQ - Fakes, Frauds & Phonies - Iraq War Sees New Generation
The war in Iraq is creating a new generation of military veterans - and a new opportunity for fake ones. In what's become an inevitable outcome any time America goes to war, people claim honors and accolades for action they never saw, in places they've never been. Sometimes they are running a scam. Usually it's just a free beer and a pat on the back they're after.
June 06, 2003 WW II - Coming Home 61 Years Later
For more than a half-century, Helen Jenkins Jackson had only an old photograph, a couple of tucked-away letters and precious memories of her younger brother.
June 06, 2003 PGW - Speicher Field Named
Members of the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division honored missing Navy pilot Capt. Michael Scott Speicher recently by naming an airstrip in central Iraq after him.
June 05, 2003 CIVIL WAR - Point Lookout POW Camp Flag Flap Becomes Free Speech Issue
The fight, joined yesterday in a federal courtroom in Baltimore, pitted a past commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and other Confederate memorial groups against the federal government. The issue: restrictions on speech at national military cemeteries.
June 05, 2003 SOMALIA - The Survivor, Michael Durant
For 11 days Michael Durant's emotions swung like a pendulum. But throughout his ordeal as a prisoner of war, Durant, a pilot and lone survivor of a helicopter crash that's the focus of the movie "Blackhawk Down," relied on instinct and training.
June 04, 2003 Father Found - New Book Review & Info
June 03, 2003 IRAQ - The ISG
So, what's the ISG going to do? Well, the first priority, of course, is the search for and elimination of weapons of mass destruction. But in addition to WMD, the ISG will collect and exploit documents and media related to terrorism, war crimes, POW [prisoner of war] and MIA [missing in action] issues, and other things relating to the former Iraqi regime. It will interrogate and debrief individuals, both hostile and friendly, and it will exploit captured materiel. The goal is to put all the pieces together in what is appearing to be a very complex jigsaw puzzle.
June 03, 2003 IRAQ - Speicher, Saddam & WMD Together?
Where is 1991 Gulf War Navy Commander Michael Scott Speicher - long reported by credible intelligence sources to be alive and under the 'personal' control of Uday Hussein?
June 03, 2003 ME - 4 US Soldiers Captured, Held & Released by Iran
Four U.S. soldiers and five civilians in two boats were detained by Iranians, blindfolded and interrogated Sunday before being released yesterday, the U.S. Central Command said. Two of the civilians were still being held.
June 03, 2003 NAF Bits 'N' Pieces
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June 03, 2003 SEA - NLF Update Line
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June 02, 2003 PGW - The Search for Scott Speicher
In their thus-far fruitless search in Iraq for Navy pilot Capt. Scott Speicher, U.S. investigators plan to use two old-fashioned tools: reward money and wanted posters.
June 02, 2003 PGW - US Plans DNA ID of Erroneous Speicher Remains
Specifically, the documents appear to solve the grisly mystery of a pound and a half of human flesh that has been at the heart of the Speicher case. The Iraqis turned those remains over to the U.S. in 1991, identifying them only as "Michael," which is Speicher's proper first name.
June 01, 2003 POW-MIA Radio Broadcast Schedule
News and Views :: Mary Schantag :: J. B. Stone
June 01, 2003 AII POW-MIA New Reports of Interest
7 Excellent Reports Added to the Archives
June 01, 2003 WW II - MIAs Sought by DPMO in Papua New Guinea
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW/Missing Personnel Affairs Jerry D. Jennings is visiting Papua New Guinea this week to reaffirm the governmentıs commitment to recover the remains of those lost in World War II.
POW-MIA Issue Update July 2003