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light will shine til ALL the pow/mias are home dead or alive.
U.S.-North Korea Agree to Look for U.S. MIAs
A U.N. honor guard salutes U.N. flag- draped coffins containing
the remains of what are believed to be six American soldiers at
the border village of the Panmunjom, South Korea, on May 14,
1999. North Korea returned the remains of the soldiers. (Ahn
Young-joon/AP Photo)
By Robert Burns
The Associated Press
W A S H I N G T O N, June 9 — The United States and North
Korea agreed today to resume a joint effort to locate and recover
the remains of thousands of American servicemen who are
unaccounted for from the Korean War.
The agreement was struck on the third day of negotiations in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, between representatives of the Defense
Department and the North Korean People’s Liberation Army,
U.S. officials said.
The first search mission is scheduled for June 25, the 50th
anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War.
The deal comes as final preparations are under way in the North
Korean capital, Pyongyang, for a summit meeting starting Monday
between South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and North Korean
leader Kim Jong Il.
Five Excavations
The United States and North Korea agreed to a series of five
excavations in Unsan and Kujang counties, about 60 miles north of
Pyongyang.
The Pentagon believes more than 500 sets of remains could be
recovered near Unsan, a site of major battles between the U.S.
Army’s 8th Cavalry Regiment and Chinese troops in November
1950.
By the Pentagon’s count, 8,174 U.S. servicemen are
unaccounted for from the Korean War, which began June 25, 1950,
with a North Korean invasion that nearly drove responding U.S.
troops off the peninsula.
Under terms of the deal struck today in Kuala Lumpur, the United
States will be allowed 20 people on its search teams. Each
mission will last 25 days. In its initial announcement of the
deal, the Pentagon made no mention of what has been one of the
stickiest issues: the amount of financial compensation to be paid
to North Korea.
42 Sets of Remains Recovered
For many years after the war ended in 1953 the United States had
no means of recovering remains north of the Demilitarized Zone
that was established to divide the capitalist South from the
communist North. But in the early 1990s, North Korea began
unilateral returns of a small number of remains, and later it
negotiated terms of cooperation on joint recovery missions, the
first of which was conducted in 1996.
In a series of 12 recovery operations inside North Korea since
then, 42 sets of remains believed to be those of American
soldiers were recovered, although only three have been positively
identified by the Army’s Central Identification Laboratory.
The searches were halted in November 1999 and a subsequent round
of talks in December broke off when North Korea demanded new
American humanitarian donations, including the construction of
factories to produce children’s clothing.
Kuala Lumpur was chosen as a neutral venue for this week’s
meeting. Previous rounds were held in Hawaii, New York and
Berlin.
Copyright 2000 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This
material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
redistributed.
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My Adopted Pixies have a new home here.
"LET'S BRING THEM HOME!"
I received this song in my mail and wanted to share it with you.
To Whom It Would Be of Interest,
I wrote this song to pay tribute to All Veterans and
would be honored if you choose to post it on your Patriotic
Web Site. I thank you and God Bless!
A Tribute To Veterans
In Vietnam, Korea and World Wars Past
Our Men Fought Bravely so Freedom Would Last
Conditions Where Not Always Best They Could Be
Fighting a Foe You Could Not Always See:
From Mountain Highs to Valley Lows
From Jungle Drops to Desert Patrols
Our Sinewy Sons Were Sent Over Seas
Far From Their Families And Far From Their Dreams
They Never Wrote Letters Of Hardships Despair
Only Of Love, Yearning That One Day Soon:
They Would Come Home, They Would Resume
And Carry On With The Rest of Their Lives
The P.O.W.¹S Stood Steadfast
Against the Indignities And Cruelties Of War
They Could Not Have Lasted as Long as They Did
If They Had Relinquished Their Hope That Some Day:
They Would Come Home, They Would Resume
And Carry On the Rest Of Their Lives
Medics, Nurses, and Chaplains Alike
Did What They Needed To Bring Back Life
They Served Our Forces From Day Into Night
Not Questioning If They Would Survive:
They Mended Bones And Bodies Too,
They Soothed the Spirits of Dying Souls
And for Those M.I.A¹S, Who Were Left Behind
We Echo This Message Across the Seas
We Will search For as Long As It Takes
You¹re Not Forgotten And Will Always Be:
In Our Hearts, In Our Prayers,
In Our Minds For All Time
A Moment of Silence, a Moment of Summons
Is Their Deliverance of Body And Soul
To a Sacred Place That We All Know
Deep In the Shrines of Our Soul:
In Our Hearts, In Our Prayers
In Our Minds For All Time
INTERLUDE:
GOLD STAR MOTHERS GRIEVE: ENDLESSLY,
ENDLESSLY, ENDLESSLY.......
These Immortalized Soldiers Whose Bravery Abounds
They¹re Our Husbands, Fathers, and Sons
They Enlisted For the Duty at Hand
To Serve the Cause of Country and Land:
They Had Honor, They Had Valor,
They Found Glory That Change Them Forever
Men Standing Tall and Proud They be
A Country Behind Them in a Solemn Sea
So Let the Flags of Freedom Fly
Unfurled in Their Majesty High:
In the Sun, In the Rain
In the Winds Across This Land
Years of Tears Has Brought Us Here
Gathering Around to Hear This Sound
So Let the Flags of Freedom Fly
Unfurled in Their Majesty High:
In the Sun, In the Rain,
In the Winds Across This Land
REPEAT:
In the Sun, In the Rain,
In the Winds For All Time
Jerry Calow (copyright 2003 )
This is my adopted POW/MIA
Name: Richard Wilson, Jr.
Rank/Branch: E3/US Army
Unit: 523rd Transportation Company, 37th Battalion, 26th GSG
Date of Birth: November 8,1952
Home City of Record: Crawfordsville AR
Date of Loss: June 14,1971
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 16323N 1072729E (YD623301)
Status (in 1973): Killed/Body Not Recovered
Category: 4
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: Truck
Other Personnel in incident: (none missing)
SYNOPSIS: PFC Richard Wilson served as a truck driver for the 523rd Transportation Company in South Vietnam. On June 15,1971, at about 1655 hours, his truck went out of control while crossing the An Lo bridge about 5 miles southeast of Hue, in a rainstorm,and veered off the bridge.
On June 17, divers inspected the truck and were unable to locate PFC Wilson. On June 20, the truck was recovered, but no trace could be found of PFC Wilson in the truck cab.
On or about June 20, the Vietnamese news reported seeing a body similar to that of PFC Wilson downstream from the bridge in the river. Efforts to relocate the body referred to were unsuccessful. A later source report described a black body (Wilson was a negro) floating in a flooded river in the Van Xuan Hamlet of Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam. This report possibly correlates to Wilson, but the body was not located.
Extensive air searches were made with the assistance of ARVN helicopters, but no sign of Wilson or his body were ever found. Wilson's is one of the unfortunate accidental deaths that occur wherever people are. The fact that he died an accidental death in the midst of war is tragically ironic. He is listed among the missing with honor, because his body was never found to be returned to the country he served.
Others who are missing do not have such clear cut cases. Some were know captives; some were photographed as they were led by their guards. Some were in radio contact with search teams, while others simply disappeared.
Since the war ended, over 250,000 interviews have been conducted with those who claim to know about missing Americans in Southeast Asia, and several million documents have been studied. U. S. Government experts cannot seem to agree whether Americans are there alive or not. Distractors say it would be far too politically difficult to bring the men they believe to be alive home, and the U. S. is content to negotiate for remains.
Over 1000 eye-witness reports of living American prisoners were recieved by 1989, lending credence to the possibility that Americans are still alive. Most of these reports are classified. If, as the U.S. seems to believe, the men are all dead, why the secrecy after so may years?
If the men are alive, why are they not home?
"All Biographical and loss information on Vietnam Era POW/MIA's provided by Operation Just Cause have been supplied by Chuck and Mary Schantag of POW/NET
http://www.asde.com/~pownet/ . Please check with POW/NET regularly for upates."
I believe we have the
Right and Responsibility
to
Demand and Recieve
a True and Complete Accounting
of our POW/MIA.
I will do whatever I can to promote that belief.
Remains Returned Since Homecoming, January 27,1973
Walter Hugh "Wally" Moons' Dedication Page
James William Holts' Dedication Page
Harold George Bennetts' Dedication Page
John Daniel Shewmake Sr.'s Dedication Page
Donald Eugene Parsons' Dedication Page
James Larry Phipps' Dedication Page
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