My wife put me on to this excellent article about this Recognition Day,* established by Congress in 1979, to remember our POWs and MIAs:
Incredibly, a total of 83,417 GIs are still missing in action:
- 73,681 from World War II
- 7,947 from the Korean War
- 126 from Cold War actions
- 1,657 from the Vietnam War
- 6 from the war with Iraq and related conflicts.
*Takes place annually in the United States on the third Friday in September
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