Sept. 16 is National POW/MIA (Prisoner of War/Missing in Action) Recognition Day. The Department of Defense lists 81,477 military service members still missing and unaccounted for from our nation’s wars during the past 100 years.

Today, take time to recognize the sacrifices these individuals and their families made for the price of freedom around the world. They served with honor. They will never be forgotten.

Paul N. Yeckel Jr.

Hempfield

The writer is POW/MIA chairman of VFW Post 33, Greensburg.

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