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Creswell VFW honors POWs/MIAs with ceremony at Post

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The POW/MIA Recognition Day is commemorated on the third Friday every September to recognize prisoners of war and those missing in action.

This past Friday, Sept. 18, Creswell VFW members posted U.S. Flags in downtown and held a small ceremony at the Post that evening. 

The Veterans of Foreign Wars emphasizes the importance of honoring and remembering the more than 140,000 former American prisoners of war and nearly 82,000 service members who still remain missing and unaccounted-for over the past century. 

We also remember the families who continue to grieve for their loved ones. This is one of the remembrance days that is especially meaningful to the members of our VFW Posts, said Bob Beck, the Creswell post’s public information officer.

“At the Post, we held our memorial around our ‘fallen comrade table,’ also known as the ‘missing man table’ to remember our missing comrades,” Beck said following the ceremony.

The POW/MIA Recognition Day is commemorated on the third Friday every September to recognize prisoners of war and those missing in action.

This past Friday, Sept. 18, Creswell VFW members posted U.S. Flags in downtown and held a small ceremony at the Post that evening. 

The Veterans of Foreign Wars emphasizes the importance of honoring and remembering the more than 140,000 former American prisoners of war and nearly 82,000 service members who still remain missing and unaccounted-for over the past century. 

We also remember the families who continue to grieve for their loved ones. This is one of the remembrance days that is especially meaningful to the members of our VFW Posts, said Bob Beck, the Creswell post’s public information officer.

“At the Post, we held our memorial around our ‘fallen comrade table,’ also known as the ‘missing man table’ to remember our missing comrades,” Beck said following the ceremony.

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