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  2. United States prisoners of war during the Vietnam War

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    Members of the United States armed forces were held as prisoners of war (POWs) in significant numbers during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1973. Unlike U.S. service members captured in World War II and the Korean War, who were mostly enlisted troops, the overwhelming majority of Vietnam-era POWs were officers, most of them Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps airmen; a relatively small number of ...

  3. Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Wikipedia

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    The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly called the Vietnam Memorial, is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The two-acre (8,100 m 2 ) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died or remain missing ...

  4. Vietnam War POW/MIA issue - Wikipedia

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    The National League of Families' POW/MIA flag; it was created in 1971 when the war was still in progress. The National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia was created by Sybil Stockdale, Evelyn Grubb and Mary Crowe as an originally small group of POW/MIA wives in Coronado, California, and Hampton Roads, Virginia, in 1967.

  5. As Vietnam tribute arrives at casino, New Mexico vets can ...

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    The memorial wall has been installed in the main parking lot of the pueblo casino by the American Veterans Traveling Tribute and will be on public display through Sunday.

  6. National POW/MIA Recognition Day - Wikipedia

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    It honors those who were prisoners of war (POWs) and those who are still missing in action (MIA). It is most associated with those who were POWs during the Vietnam War. National Vietnam War Veterans Day is March 29, the date in 1973 when the last US combat troops departed the Republic of Vietnam. [1] [2] [3] POW/MIA flag Newt Heisley designed image

  7. We must honor NJ Vietnam veterans. Modernize our NJ Vietnam ...

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    In fact, the bill, S-2533/A-1213, which makes a supplemental appropriation of $15 million to Department of Military and Veterans Affairs for New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation to ...

  8. Rolling Thunder (organization) - Wikipedia

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    Rolling Thunder members being greeted by President Barack Obama in 2012. In 1987 Rolling Thunder made its first ride to the Vietnam War Memorial. [5]Ray Manzo, a former United States Marine Corps Corporal, [6] U.S. Army Sergeant Major John Holland (Ret.), Marine First Sergeant Walt Sides (Ret.) and Sergeant Ted Sampley (Ret.) are the four men that are credited with starting Rolling Thunder ...

  9. List of United States servicemembers and civilians missing in ...

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    This article is a list of US MIAs of the Vietnam War in the period 1961–1965. In 1973, the United States listed 2,646 Americans as unaccounted for from the entire Vietnam War. By October 2022, 1,582 Americans remained unaccounted for, of which 1,004 were classified as further pursuit, 488 as non-recoverable and 90 as deferred. [1]