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There’s more than fifty-eight thousand
It’s such a small tribute
Their name carved in a rock
Seems there’s too many of us
Remember when you see that Wall
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My Adopted POW's and MIA's!
CROSSMAN, GREGORY JOHN
Name: Gregory John Crossman
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SYNOPSIS:
Crossman began a distinguished flying career.
In February, 1968, Crossman was awarded the
On April 25, 1968 the plane on which he was "back seater"
The aircraft disappeared without a trace
Mounting evidence indicates that Americans
The United States government pledged
Over 2,000 POW/MIA(s) are still missing from Vietnam. Please
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them all back to the USA alive or to bury in their country's soil.
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The Men And Women
Who Remain Missing In Action
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the Gentle autumn rain.
I am the swift uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circled flight,
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
I am not there, I did not die.
Five hundred feet long -
Ten feet high, scribed with names
Of those who died, the strong.
Etched upon that stone -
Most of them died so young
This life, they’ve never known.
To those who fought our war -
Such a small price we pay
To those who gave much more.
That most of us won’t read -
Not near enough praise to give
For their most gracious deed.
Who don’t really seem to care
That we stayed home secure and safe
While they died over there.
With all those initials and names
That those men were only pawns
In one more of those deadly games.
And that peace will always reign -
That we won’t have to send our young
To fight and die again.
Rank/Branch: O2/US Air Force
Unit: 497th Tactical Fighter Squadron,
Ubon Airbase, Thailand
Date of Birth: 09 August 1941
Home City of Record: Sturgis MI
Date of Loss: 25 April 1968
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 173400N 1061800E (XE371435)
Status (in 1973): Missing In Action
Category: 2
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: F4D
Refno: 1144
Other Personnel In Incident:
Albert C. Mitchell (missing)
raw data from U.S.
Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families,
published sources, interviews.
Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK in 1998.
Gregory Crossman believed there
was a purpose in going to Vietnam.
After graduating from Western Michigan University,
he entered the Air Force,
and subsequently received
pilot training and his wings.
In January 1968, he was cited
for "superior airmanship and devotion to duty"
for knocking out a supply
route and destroying a truck convoy
near North Vietnam's Mu Gia Pass without
benefit of flares or moonlight.
Distinguished Flying Cross for
what the Air Force called one of the most
important air strikes in a
high-risk area of North Vietnam.
to Col. Albert
Mitchell when the two departed Ubon Airbase
in Thailand on a daring radar
raid over one of the most active surface
to air missile (SAM) sites in North
Vietnam, dodging heavy anti-aircraft fire
as they partially knocked out a
Soviet fighter plane base along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
when it broke formation to veer
over a truck convoy heading for the
key North Vietnamese supply route.
Although there is strong indication
that the Vietnamese know what happened
to Mitchell and Crossman, they deny knowledge of their fates.
The last known
location of the aircraft was
about 5 miles northwest of the city of Dong Ha
in Quang Binh Province, North Vietnam.
are still alive being held
prisoner of war in Southeast Asia.
The Vietnamese pledged to return all
prisoners of war and provide the fullest possible accounting of the missing
in the peace accords signed in 1973.
They have not done either.
that the POW/MIA issue is of "highest
national priority" but has not achieved results indicative of such a
priority.
Crossman, Mitchell and the nearly 2500 Americans who remain
unaccounted for in Southeast Asia deserve
our best efforts to bring them
home, not our empty words.
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