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The National League of Families POW*MIA flag, often referred to as the POW*MIA flag, was adopted in 1972. In 2019, the National POW*MIA Flag Act was signed into law, requiring the POW*MIA flag to be flown on certain federal building, including the US Capitol Building, on all days the US flag is flown.
The flag symbolizes support and care for the soldiers, airmen, and sailors who served the United States in the Vietnam War, especially those who endured capture by the enemy.
The original design for the flag was created in 1971 by Newt Heisley. It consists of a silhouette of a POW before a guard tower and barbed wire in white on a black background. 'POW*MIA' appears above the silhouette and the words 'YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN' appear below in white.
The idea for the flag came from Mary Hoff, a member of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, and the wife of US Navy Lt. Commander Michael Hoff, a serviceman missing in action.
When displayed from a single flagpole, the POW*MIA flag should fly directly below, and be no larger than, the US flag. If on separate poles, the U.S. flag should always be placed to the right of other flags. The POW/MIA flag is generally flown as second in order of precedence.
In the US Armed Forces dining and mess halls a single table and chair in a corner is draped with the flag as a symbol for the missing, thus reserving a chair in hopes of their return.
This is me doing a ninja kick in my own stomach.
Strobist: 150W/s flash at camera left with softbox, lowest setting. Nikon SB-24 with small softbox on camera right, lying on the floor, set to 1/4. Another SB-24 to lit up the background (white bottom sheet) from behind, set to 1/1. A tad of photoshopping.
Unused. Photogr. Schuster, Munsterlager.
Circa late 1914, British POWs are herded through the streets of Munster enroute to captivity. Their guard is a Landsturmman from the 38th Infanterie Brigade who wears an old Landwehr Tschako and is armed with a Gew 88.
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X Armee-korps (Preußen). Bezirkskommando: Lüneburg.
For the sweet Annick and her adorable G. We're gearing up to punch that lesion right in the kisser! Good luck to you two lovelies! We're thinking of you and preparing for a fight!!!
National Museum of the US Air Force
American prisoners of war (POWs) in Southeast Asia endured inhuman torture, political exploitation, filthy living conditions and endless attempts at communist indoctrination. North Vietnam treated U.S. servicemen not as POWs but as foreign invaders and criminals bent on subverting Vietnam's communist revolution. Most POWs were held in camps in North Vietnam, but some were imprisoned in South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and even in China. POWs' families at home could not be sure if prisoners were alive or dead, and the question of POW treatment became a major public issue during the war.