“Prisoner of War, missing in action, gone but not forgotten!”
Total military personell either POW/KIA or MIA
Current Irag War: 4,332 KIA to date, 13 MIA
Southeast Asia: 1,737
Korea: 8,051
Cold War: 123
World War II: 80,427(74,384 unaccounted for, 6,043 buried at sea)
World War I: 4,452
Held on the 3rd Friday each September since its entry into presidential proclamation on July 18, 1979, National POW/MIA Recognition Day honors US military men and women captured, killed and or missing in action from not only the Southeast Asian War, but those before and after.
