Observances of National POW/MIA Recognition Day are also held across the country on military installations, ships at sea, state capitols, schools and veterans’ facilities. Traditionally held at the Pentagon, it features members from each branch of military service and participation from high-ranking officials. Since then, each subsequent president has issued an annual proclamation commemorating the third Friday in September as National POW/MIA Recognition Day.Ī national-level ceremony is held on every National POW/MIA Recognition Day. “The National POW/MIA Recognition Day was established in 1979 through a proclamation signed by President Jimmy Carter. The following information, taken from the Defense MIA/POW Accounting Agency website explains more: Our nation commemorates the service of these individuals who sacrificed their freedom and more as POWs with a day set aside in their honor. This number included those buried with honor as unknowns, officially buried at sea, lost at sea, and missing in action. In addition, 79,000 Americans were unaccounted for. Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, approximately 120,000 served part of their service as a prisoner of the enemy – Germany or Japan. It contains eight stories of men who spent part of their time in military service behind bars or fences at gunpoint. In 2020 I released Captured! Stories of American WWII Prisoners of War. One is close to me as I wrote a book about men who are among those honored: National POW/MIA Recognition Day. This is a big day in our nation’s history! Curly Seibold was a POW in Stalag Luft III in Poland during WWII.
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