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[Lifetime]

After 2 years of distasteful and insulting posters put out by our Governement and DPMO.... this year's seems to hit the mark. I had a chance to see them when they were presented in DC. I ordered some to be posted in the Valley.... if I get permission..
 
 http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/pow_day/images/pow_mia_poster_2010.png
 
 
In the past.... they seemed to focus on cemeteries and remains.... instead of possible alive. I am still a believer in Live Sightings as we have witnessed many South Korean Soldiers from the Korean War of the 50s who have made their way out of North Korea and back home. Many have done this in the last few years. Why would I not believe Americans could be alive from the 60's and 70's as well We have had men captured..supposedly killed... in Laos in the 60's who's names turned up in a Soviet Document turned over to our Government by Boris Yeltsin himself, in the 90's. One of the men on the list is Melvin Holland, who served at Lima Site 85 in Laos 1967. Google it. I spent several days in DC talking with his wife and a man who has visited this site since the war. In all of the incident's horror... all you aircraft buffs.... This attack by PAVN and Pathet Lao afforded the first time that a Helicopter was credited with shooting down a fixed wing. and it was one of the few times the North Vietnamese tried to actually bomb during the war. 4 North Vietnamese Antonov AN2 Colts came to attack Site 85 but 2 left the scene. A Huey UH1 shot down the two of them that stayed. We lost the site and approx. 5 of the 16 man team are still missing.
 
In case you think the issue is history.... SPC Altaie is still missing in Iraq and Bergdal in Afghanistan. We just lost two Navy men..one body returned but one still being held in Afghanistan.
 
78,000 still missing from WWII ( Some Russian Records indicate some were alive after WWII and in their control)
 
8100 still missing from the Korean War... 2 men stand out... Dumas and  Richard Desautel keep showing up on the radar as alive after the truce and even in the hands of the Chinese.
 
Numbers on Vietnam can vary... 800+ to over 1500...according to your source.
 
So this is not new. Remember these men 365 days a year and Recognize them the 3rd Friday in Sept.
 

[CindyLouWho]

Those are some big numbers. 

[Lifetime]

Now...looking at those numbers...whodda thunk that the parents and loved ones would keep their mouths shut up until the Vietnam Veterans raise Hell over the missing.     Our Government told the Families of those pilots shot down over North Vietnam and captured, to keep their mouths shut so their loved ones weren't going to be treated worse???  So we heard torture and execution.... because they didn't say a word??? How well did that work??? Now I am fresh out of a meeting with the heads of the DPMO and it's departments....and I heard this same mind set come from their mouths on those still missing in the Sand Box. Same crap, just 50 years later. So now they teach this to the new people coming into the DPMO, JPAC, DIA etc.... This is wrong and we keep fighting.
 
If you need to put those numbers in perspective.... picture tomorrow morning and you find every person in Mercer County is gone.
 
Approx.
 

WWI                                         3347
WWII                                     78,618

Cold War                                    120

Korea                                      8,114

Vietnam                                   1728

Sand Box War 1991-present    3
 
 
 
Try this site for info .... explore it. I meet with their directors and am in contact fairly regularly.
 
http://www.nationalalliance.org/
 
 
 
 

Those are some big numbers.