POW/MIA Day, September 19th

[Ernst]

The third Friday in September is recognized as POW/MIA Day, a time to remember the sacrifices of prisoners of war (POW) and servicemembers who are missing in action (MIA). Until 1979, there was no formal recognition day set aside for these important men and women in uniform.

POW/MIA Day will be observed on Friday, Sept. 19, 2025.

More than 83,000 service members are missing from conflicts from World War Two to the present time. Of that number, the majority (more than 73,000) are missing from World War Two. The number of POW/MIAs from the Korean conflict number just above 7,000.

The Vietnam War has over 1,600 listed, with the Cold War at 126 servicemembers listed as POW/MIA. Conflicts since 1991 have six people still unaccounted for.

Please fly your POW/MIA Flag Tomorrow.

 

[Ernst]

 

[Husker88]

No idea that the WWII and Korea numbers were so high.

 

[Ernst]

No idea that the WWII and Korea numbers were so high.

The majority of the WWII numbers were sailors lost at sea due to so many ships destroyed during the naval battles especially in the Pacific.

I would assume the Korea numbers were due to the inability to recover bodies from what is now North Korea.


Update: No recovery operations have been allowed in North Korea since 2005. Hopefully some day operations will be allowed once again.

 

[Ernst]