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Tag: National POW/MIA Recognition Day

Defense Department observes National POW/MIA Recognition Day
September 17, 2021 — National POW/MIA Recognition Day — which usually falls on the third Friday in September — was established in 1979 to honor those service members who were held captive and returned, as well as those who remain missing. ... MORE

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DOD identifies most remains of those killed on USS Oklahoma
September 17, 2021 — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has identified most of those killed on the USS Oklahoma when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in 1941... MORE

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