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On 20 September , we invite the 3 55th

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Wing and the entire installation of

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Davis mon and to take part in the

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National Prisoner of War and missing in

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action recognition day . On this day ,

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we ask that you remember the debt that

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we owe to our former prisoners of war

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and those still missing in action and

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their families . And we pay tribute to

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those individuals and we recommit to

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the difficult but very essential task

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to finding out answers for those

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families of those still missing in

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action . According to the defense pow

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and missing in action Accountability

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Agency . There are about 81,600 missing

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Americans from the battlefields of

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World War Two to our most recent

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conflicts . The United States is

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committed to identifying and recovering

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those 81,000 Americans still missing

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from overseas wars . We will never

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abandon the search and they will never

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be forgotten . Donald Gail Air

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Force , James Byron

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Brock army , Billy

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Edwin Houghton Harvey .