National League of POW/MIA Families

01/31/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 31

01/30/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 30

01/29/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 29

01/28/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION! We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan [email protected]

01/27/2023

The Paris Peace Accords, Jan 27, 1973…
Remembering and honoring our Vietnam War Veterans on this day.

01/27/2023

“Bring Them Home” RED Friday Remember Everyone Deployed

01/27/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 27

01/26/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 26

01/25/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 25

01/24/2023

ATTEND DPAA’S UPCOMING FAMILY EVENT
FY2023 Family Update Schedule

01/24/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 24

01/23/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 23

01/22/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 22

01/21/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION! Jan Scruggs... Remembering and honoring our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for

01/21/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 21

01/20/2023

Thank you to Danny Belcher for sharing these great photos with us.

The Annual Kentucky Motorcycle Assn. Freedom Fighters Forum in Bowling Green, KY. Met some old friends including Congressman Brett Guthrie, Secretary of State, Michael G. Adams, Attorney General, Daniel Cameron, State Auditor, Mike Harmon and many others. Thank you to the great KMA/KBA people that put this on. It was an honor for Kim and I to be invited to be with such honorable people.

Danny "Greasy" Belcher, Executive Director
Task Force Omega of KY Inc.
Vietnam Infantry Sargent D Troop, 7th Sqdn, 1st Air Cav.

01/20/2023

“Bring Them Home” RED Friday Remember Everyone Deployed

01/20/2023

Stars and Stripes Jan 20, 1964
THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!

01/20/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 20

01/20/2023

🇺🇲Vietnam War Stories: On June 20, 1967 Marines of E Company, 2d Battalion, 7th Marines [E/2/7] move into position during Operation Arizona. The nine-day sweep and destroy operation (June 14-22) held 14 miles southwest of Da Nang (official USMC photo by Corporal J. E. McClory)




Original description and photo sourced by US Marine Corps Archive. Corporal J.E. McClory photographer.

01/20/2023

🇺🇲Vietnam War Stories: Honoring the Heroines We Lost: First Lieutenant Sharon Ann Lane of Ohio

Today we honor First Lieutenant Sharon Ann Lane, of Canton Ohio, served with the 44th Medical Brigade, 67th Medical Group, 312th Evacuation Hospital.

According to The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund: "First Lieutenant Lane arrived at the 312th Evacuation Hospital at Chu Lai on 29 April. She was originally assigned to the Intensive Care Unit, but a few days later was reassigned to the Vietnamese Ward."

"Nursing the Vietnamese in Ward 4 was often physically and emotionally challenging, yet Lane repeatedly declined transfers to another ward. She worked five days a week, twelve hours a day in Ward 4, and spent her off-duty time taking care of the most critically injured American soldiers in the Surgical ICU. She thrived despite the demanding schedule, and was adored and respected by co-workers and patients alike."

"On the morning of 8 June 1969, the 312th Evacuation Hospital was struck by a salvo of rockets. One rocket struck between Wards 4A and 4B, killing two people and wounding another twenty-seven. Among the fallen was First Lieutenant Lane, who died instantly of fragmentation wounds to the chest. She was one month shy of her twenty-sixth birthday."

"Though one of eight American military nurses who died while serving in Vietnam, Sharon Lane was the only American nurse killed as a direct result of hostile fire. A memorial service was held in Chu Lai 10 June 1969 and a Catholic mass followed the next day. Lane was buried with full military honors at Sunset Hills Burial Park in her hometown of Canton, Ohio."

"For her service in Vietnam, 1LT Sharon Ann Lane was awarded the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star with “V” device, the National Defense Service Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal, the National Order of Vietnam Medal, and the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross (with Palm)."

First Lieutenant Sharon Ann Lane is honored on the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington DC on Panel 23W, Line 112. Lest We Forget.



Original description and photo sourced by The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Database

01/20/2023

THE AMERICAN SOLDIER
Thank You For Freedom

Empty Boots...

Walk a mile in another mans boots...
I don't think its possible.
Yeah we have pounded the same ground…
...But each journey is different...
In Vietnam each man walked his own destiny…
Destiny maps out longevity…
Unlike men...
...Boots were alike for sure...
Black leather
Green canvas
Caked with red mud
But the man,
The Soldier…
often lay caked with red Blood...
...The Warrior experiences War...
War will suffocate the experience of life...
...Boots are removed...
The journey has ended for the man.
...Even so...
...His boots remain,
Age has no effect...
...His journey continues in the hearts
Of the Brothers of War...
...The boots are empty…
But our hearts are full...
We continue to walk in sorrow.
Alas...
...We could not walk in freedom
If not for the empty boots...
Author Unknown

01/19/2023

To Honor and Remember...Never Forgotten! And to continue the efforts for the families and for our loved-ones unaccounted-for from the Vietnam War.

01/19/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 19

01/18/2023

US Ambassador to Cambodia tours the DPAA lab

01/18/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION! We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 18

01/17/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 17

01/17/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 17

01/16/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 16

01/16/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 16

01/15/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 15

01/14/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 14

01/13/2023

“Bring Them Home” RED Friday Remember Everyone Deployed

01/13/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 13

01/12/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 12

01/11/2023

Soldier Accounted For From Vietnam War (Green, T.)

https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/3139077/soldier-accounted-for-from-vietnam-war-green-t/

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc. Thomas F. Green, 19, of Ramona, California, killed during the Vietnam War, was accounted for Aug. 23, 2022.In October

01/11/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 11

01/10/2023

Life Behind the Wire: Prisoners of War - Exhibit Overview

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Most people aren’t aware of the drastic differences that exist between varying prisoner of war (POW) experiences. The camp and captor greatly determined the ...

01/10/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 10

01/09/2023

THE MEN ARE THE MISSION!
“We remember and honor our Unreturned Vietnam War Veterans still missing and unaccounted-for on Jan 9.