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Tommy Tanaka, right, an Army veteran wounded in the Vietnam War, converses with fellow wounded Army veteran Reinaldo Espada before a National Prisoner of War and Missing in Action Recognition Day ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Sept. 21, 2012. Veterans and active duty service members were among the approximately 500 attendees. During the ceremony, retired Army Col. William S. Reeder Jr., spoke about his year spent as a POW in Vietnam after his plane was shot down during combat operations.

Tommy Tanaka, right, an Army veteran wounded in the Vietnam War, converses with fellow wounded Army veteran Reinaldo Espada before a National Prisoner of War and Missing in Action Recognition Day ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Sept. 21, 2012. Veterans and active duty service members were among the approximately 500 attendees. During the ceremony, retired Army Col. William S. Reeder Jr., spoke about his year spent as a POW in Vietnam after his plane was shot down during combat operations.

Tommy Tanaka, right, an Army veteran wounded in the Vietnam War, converses with fellow wounded Army veteran Reinaldo Espada before a National Prisoner of War and Missing in Action Recognition Day ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Sept. 21, 2012. Veterans and active duty service members were among the approximately 500 attendees. During the ceremony, retired Army Col. William S. Reeder Jr., spoke about his year spent as a POW in Vietnam after his plane was shot down during combat operations.

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