Every September, America remembers its former prisoners of war (POW) as well as those who went missing in action (MIA) fighting for the nation on the battlefront during National POW/MIA Recognition ...

West Virginia native, veteran and former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch speaks to a crowd at Gold Star Park Friday during the The Purple Heart and POW/MIA Memorial Monument reveal event on POW/MIA ...

Paul Newton and Wayne Newton, two Indiana natives who died during the attack on Pearl Harbor, will be buried with full ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — On the third Friday of September every year, veterans, citizens and officials gather at the East ...

Carla Clark | For The Republic Honor Guard, provided by the American Legion Post 24, performs the Rifle Volley during the POW/MIA Recognition Day Ceremony at the Bartholomew County Memorial for ...

New legislation aims to make the POW/MIA Memorial and Museum in Jacksonville a national landmark, honoring service members.

A ceremony Friday at the Maryland World War II Memorial in Annapolis marks National POW/MIA Recognition Day, a day established by Congress to honor the sacrifice and courage of American prisoners of ...

TOWNSEND — Townsend VFW Post No. 6538 and its Auxiliary will observe National POW/MIA Recognition Day with a candlelight ceremony at 6:15 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, on the Townsend Common. The purpose of ...

Sept. 19 is National POW/MIA Recognition Day to call attention to the fact that there are about 81,000 U.S. military personnel who are unaccounted for from World War II forward. The National League of ...

Vietnam War veteran Wes Anderson stands in front of the bronze statue at the Vietnam War memorial in Riverfront Park and listens to U.S. Air Force servicemen talk about the meaning of POW/MIA ...