https://www.military.com/history/4-things-know-pow-mia-recognition-day.html
Remember those that the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats betrayed by leaving them behind!
“A veteran is someone who at one point in his life wrote a blank check made payable to the ‘United States of America’ for an amount of ‘up to and including my life.'” -Anonymous
“A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not.” — Lt. Col. Jean V. Dubois (Ret.) and student, p. 26 Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert A. Heinlein
The most significant item in the Quang report is the assertion that there were 1,205 American POWs in captivity that September. Six months later, Hanoi released 591 POWs, insisting they were the only prisoners alive at that time. If that was true and if the Quang report is accurate, more than 600 POWs must have died or been killed between the fall of 1972 and April 1, 1973. https://time.com/archive/6723016/american-pows-who-was-left-behind/
“I can’t promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me, God.” — Mel Gibson playing Lt. Col. Hal Moore in “We Were Soldiers”
In the U.S. Armed Forces, we don’t leave anyone behind. It’s one of the basic pillars of what the Army calls the Warrior Ethos: “I will never leave a fallen comrade.” https://nation.time.com/2012/05/17/the-warrior-ethos-why-we-leave-no-one-behind/
We should add “BIA” (Betrayed In Action) to MIAs, POWs, KIAs, WIAs!
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Reinke Faces Life 