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To: Former Military Chick
Sounds like a good idea. People interested in helping to remind the hill and the US of POW/MIA issue may want to visit Rolling Thunder.There are petitions online to remind congress to reinstate the POW status. The annual Ride for Freedom is coming up.

Having a family member MIA effects the entire family for years and years. Our family was lucky we had a member returned after thirty years. At least we can now know where he was and where he is buried when we run across his photo in the family album. This family only has the haunting face of a frightened loved one and no answers to where he is now. We can't let America forget that.

6 posted on 04/25/2005 8:54:16 AM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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To: armymarinemom
Thanks for mentioning Rolling Thunder

From Rolling Thunder's Website:

This year we have an extra fight. Since the Department of Defense recently changed the POW/MIA status to Missing/Captured (MIA/C), we are working on a petition that we will give to President Bush to demand he change it back.
Why aren’t Matt Maupin and Scott Speicher POW’s?

This move appears to be the beginning of the end for government acknowledgment that there are any POW’s. We hope to get hundreds of thousands of signatures to back this demand.

The petition:

Here in pdf

Rolling Thunder was represented at the March For Justice II in Washington DC April 7th, 2005.


20 posted on 04/25/2005 10:44:33 AM PDT by Syncro
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To: armymarinemom
There are petitions online to remind congress to reinstate the POW status.

The only problem I have with this is that calling SGT Maupin a POW could be seen to somehow legitimize those who took him. I'll settle for "captured" for now.

24 posted on 04/25/2005 2:06:31 PM PDT by No Longer Free State (The last thing Reuters wants is a free and unfettered Iraqi press)
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