The best way to prepare for a successful pow/mia remembrance ceremony is to do your homework In a remembrance service, the script is traditionally read by just one person — an american legion auxiliary member (usually the chaplain) or a legionnaire, and the table is set before the meeting begins. It is set for one, symbolizing the fact that members of our corps are missing from our ranks They are referred to as prisoners of war and missing in action By the end of the vietnam war, more than 2,500 servicemembers were listed by the department of defense as prisoner of war (pow) or missing in action (mia). Issing man table & honors ceremony moderator
The pow/mia ceremony is to recognize those individuals who have served this country, but are not necessarily deceased The playing of taps in this case may be premature and could be deemed as offensive. The pow/mia committee is committed to achieving the fullest possible accounting for united states personnel still held captive, missing or unaccounted for from all of our nation’s wars, which includes bringing the remains of our fallen comrades home and repatriating any living united states pow’s.
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