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Tag Archive 'National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia'

National POW/MIA Recognition Day to be celebrated September 18, 2009

Posted in Editorial, Flag Position Status, Flags in the News, History, Information on Sep 17th, 2009

The third Friday in September is honored as National POW/MIA Recognition Day.
The flag is flown in the full-staff position on this day. While the law addresses flying the POW/MIA flag on federal installations only (see the link above), civilians should fly the POW/MIA flag directly beneath the U.S. flag on the same pole. [...]

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POW-MIA Flag—You are not forgotten

Posted in Flag Photos, Flags in the News, History on Sep 19th, 2008

In the late 1960s, the wife of a Prisoner-of-War held in North Vietnam organized a group of families who also had family members listed as POWs or were MIA—missing in action. The organization grew and in 1970, it incorporated in Washington D.C. as the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast [...]

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