Flying POW/MIA Flag at St. Louis, MO Post Offices

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Flying POW/MIA Flag at St. Louis, MO Post Offices

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The POW/MIA flag is an American flag arranged as a symbol of noncombatant attention come seal United States military personnel extracted as prisoners of war (POWs) or recorded as nonexistent in motion (MIA). The POW/MIA flag was written by the National League of Families and officially understood by the Congress in conjunction with the Vietnam War POW/MIA subject, "as the symbol of our Nation's attention and undertaking to reconciling as fully as possible the fates of Americans immobile prisoner, nonexistent and unaccounted for in Southeast Asia, consequently ending the uncertainty for their families and the Nation." In 1971, where the Vietnam War was immobile being scuffled, Mary Hoff, the wife of a service member nonexistent in motion and member of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, understood the deficiency for a symbol of U.S. POW/MIAs, numerous of whom had been held in captivity for as many as seven years. The flag is black, and carries in the center, in black and white, the brand call of the League. The brand call was arranged by Newt Heisley, and attributes a white disk conveying in black silhouette the bust of a man (Jeffery Heisley), watch tower with a guard on patrol, and a strand of barbed wire; above the disk are the white letters POW and MIA framing a white 5-pointed star; on the floor heading down the disk is a black and white wreath above the white motto:

YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN[1]

The flag has been modified many times; the colors have been switched from black with white - to red, white and blue - to white with black; the POW/MIA has at times been modified to MIA/POW.

 

Introduction

On March 9, 1989, a league flag that had flown through the White House on the 1988 National POW/MIA Recognition Day was installed in the U.S. Capitol rotunda as a result of legislation passed by the 100th Congress. The league's POW-MIA flag is the simply flag ever shown in public in the rotunda, and the simply one as an alternative the Flag of the United States to have flown through the White House. The leadership of both Houses of Congress hosted the installation ceremony in a instance of bipartisan congressional support.

On August 10, 1990, the 101st Congress passed U.S. Public Law 101-355, recognizing the National League of Families POW/MIA Flag and designating it "as a symbol of our Nation's attention and undertaking to reconciling as fully as possible the fates of Americans immobile prisoner, nonexistent and unaccounted for in Southeast Asia, consequently ending the uncertainty for their families and the Nation." Beyond Southeast Asia, it has been a symbol for POW/MIAs from all U.S. wars.

There is no evidence that any American serviceman is now held as a POW. The flag writes the impression that servicemen any person who are MIA are maybe POWs, where this may have been true during the Vietnam ...