POW/MIA Recognition Day

[Chukpike]

Today September 18th 2009 is National Pow/MIA.

POW/MIA Recognition Day honors the commitments and the sacrifices made by our nation's prisoners of war and those who are still missing in action.

By custom, it is on the third Friday in September.

National POW/MIA Recognition Day is one of the six days specified by law on which the black POW/MIA flag shall be flown over federal facilities and cemeteries, post offices and military installations.

http://www.vfw.org/resources/pdf/VFWmagazineJPACseries.pdf

 

[DTop]

I would just add the following:

The POW/MIA Flag will be flown on the grounds or the public lobbies of major military installations as designated by the U.S. Secretary of Defense, all Federal National Cemeteries, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the White House, the United States Post Offices and at official offices of the Secretaries of State, Defense and Veterans Affairs, and Director of the Selective Service System.

Civilians are free to fly the POW/MIA Flag whenever they wish.




link

 

[Chukpike]

Thanks DTop.

Here are the six days the POW/MIA Flag will be flown as DTop listed.

• Armed Forces Day—Third Saturday in May
• Memorial Day—Last Monday in May
• Flag Day—June 14
• Independence Day—July 4
• National POW/MIA Recognition Day—Third Friday in September
• Veterans Day—November 11

 

[A Can of Man]

Never forget.
And for those who still lay where they fought, rest in peace.