WEBVTT 00:57.299 --> 00:58.299 Yeah . 02:13.740 --> 02:17.630 Yeah . Yes , 02:51.050 --> 02:54.759 my . Ok , 02:54.770 --> 02:57.800 John , right . 03:00.009 --> 03:01.750 Honor . Go to 03:12.770 --> 03:13.559 stand out 03:18.300 --> 03:21.190 staff ceremonial at East . 03:31.059 --> 03:33.389 Did it go ? What ? 04:35.149 --> 04:36.149 Cancer ? 04:39.309 --> 04:40.309 Ok . 05:36.980 --> 05:37.980 Yeah . 06:28.350 --> 06:29.350 Time ever 07:19.230 --> 07:21.369 stand by scout . 07:23.059 --> 07:23.899 Ok , John , 07:29.160 --> 07:32.100 you , huh ? Right . 07:34.769 --> 07:35.769 Right . 07:46.970 --> 07:48.410 Um Oh 07:54.480 --> 07:57.079 ladies and gentlemen , please stand for 07:57.089 --> 07:59.299 the arrival of the official party and 07:59.309 --> 08:01.476 remain standing for the playing of the 08:01.476 --> 08:03.549 United States national anthem and 08:03.559 --> 08:05.750 invocation offered by chaplain , 08:05.760 --> 08:08.019 Lieutenant Colonel William H Horton . 08:18.019 --> 08:19.019 Right . 08:50.640 --> 08:51.640 Yes . 09:17.070 --> 09:20.989 Taking the review instead , taking the 09:21.000 --> 09:22.944 reviewing stand is today's special 09:22.944 --> 09:25.056 guest United States Air Force Colonel 09:25.056 --> 09:27.278 retired Mike Braselton , accompanied by 09:27.278 --> 09:29.750 the host , the honorable Kathleen Hicks , 09:29.760 --> 09:32.570 the 35 th Deputy Secretary of Defense . 09:52.659 --> 09:52.890 No 10:03.380 --> 10:05.039 step , please . 10:17.719 --> 10:18.719 Yeah . 10:25.489 --> 10:27.599 Um Yeah . 11:12.580 --> 11:13.580 Yeah . 11:20.510 --> 11:21.729 Step order . 11:44.340 --> 11:45.340 Oh , 11:57.549 --> 12:00.700 oh ho 12:05.179 --> 12:07.068 ladies and gentlemen , chaplain , 12:07.068 --> 12:09.068 Lieutenant Colonel William Horton , 12:13.010 --> 12:15.950 let us pray almighty and gracious 12:15.960 --> 12:18.280 loving God . We turn to you on this day 12:18.289 --> 12:20.456 to recall and honor our celebrated and 12:20.456 --> 12:22.859 at times forgotten heroes , the 12:22.869 --> 12:25.090 courageous men and the women who have 12:25.099 --> 12:26.919 fallen or been lost in combat , 12:26.929 --> 12:29.049 defending our nation's belief in the 12:29.059 --> 12:31.281 right to life , liberty and the pursuit 12:31.281 --> 12:33.929 of happiness . We honor and pray for 12:33.940 --> 12:35.859 our prisoners of war for they've 12:35.869 --> 12:37.780 experienced the horror , the 12:37.789 --> 12:40.011 devastation , the pain and the agony of 12:40.011 --> 12:43.270 captivity . We also stand in solidarity 12:43.280 --> 12:45.479 with those who wait , not ever really 12:45.489 --> 12:47.656 knowing the fate of their loved ones . 12:47.809 --> 12:49.865 Thank you for the many organizations 12:49.865 --> 12:52.087 and the people who continue the efforts 12:52.087 --> 12:53.976 to account for all of our missing 12:53.976 --> 12:57.059 service members and civilians . We also 12:57.070 --> 12:59.070 pray for those who continue to face 12:59.070 --> 13:01.320 armed conflict today that they would 13:01.330 --> 13:03.330 also know the hope and the honor of 13:03.330 --> 13:05.500 serving our nation's true colors . May 13:05.510 --> 13:07.566 our nation never forget the selfless 13:07.570 --> 13:10.440 service , dedication to duty and the 13:10.450 --> 13:12.783 loyalty of our , of our service members , 13:12.783 --> 13:15.669 civilians and their families . May we 13:15.679 --> 13:18.409 never allow the sacrifices of those who 13:18.419 --> 13:20.710 have gone before us to be forgotten or 13:20.719 --> 13:23.500 lost in time . Unite us in our 13:23.510 --> 13:25.690 gratitude for your many blessings and 13:25.700 --> 13:28.559 in our mission to proclaim freedom and 13:28.570 --> 13:30.626 for the captives and for the release 13:30.626 --> 13:33.080 from the darkness . For those in prison 13:33.619 --> 13:35.952 in your precious and holy name . I pray . 13:35.952 --> 13:35.770 Amen . 13:45.419 --> 13:46.590 Please be seated . 14:00.710 --> 14:03.030 Ladies and gentlemen , the honorable 14:03.039 --> 14:04.210 Kathleen Hicks . 14:22.390 --> 14:24.334 Good morning to everyone . It's my 14:24.334 --> 14:26.419 honor to observe this important 14:26.429 --> 14:28.596 occasion with each of you who's joined 14:28.596 --> 14:31.729 us here today . I'd like to begin by 14:31.739 --> 14:33.906 acknowledging our distinguished guests 14:33.906 --> 14:35.739 and members of the International 14:35.739 --> 14:37.517 Diplomatic Corps who are in the 14:37.517 --> 14:39.739 audience with us . This includes the US 14:39.739 --> 14:41.961 ambassador to Vietnam , Mark Napper who 14:41.961 --> 14:44.183 is just back from Hanoi where he helped 14:44.183 --> 14:45.906 shepherd his historic visit by 14:45.906 --> 14:49.150 President Biden for the past 50 years . 14:49.159 --> 14:51.103 The United States and Vietnam have 14:51.103 --> 14:52.869 worked together to account for 14:52.880 --> 14:55.119 Americans missing from the Vietnam war 14:55.280 --> 14:58.150 beginning with the return of 591 14:58.159 --> 15:00.869 prisoners of war . Without the mutual 15:00.880 --> 15:03.090 cooperation between our two nations , 15:03.099 --> 15:05.099 we would not be able to support the 15:05.099 --> 15:07.229 robust and sustained operations to 15:07.239 --> 15:10.099 recover us personnel operations that 15:10.109 --> 15:13.450 have helped return 733 US service 15:13.460 --> 15:15.460 members and civilians home to their 15:15.460 --> 15:17.909 families . Today . The department's 15:17.919 --> 15:19.863 commitment to the fullest possible 15:19.863 --> 15:21.863 accounting of our missing personnel 15:21.863 --> 15:25.020 extends back to World War II . Since 15:25.030 --> 15:27.179 the end of the Vietnam War , the 15:27.190 --> 15:30.849 defense pow Mia Accounting agency and 15:30.859 --> 15:33.130 its predecessors have managed the 15:33.140 --> 15:36.229 recovery , identification and return of 15:36.239 --> 15:39.130 thousands of our missing personnel to 15:39.140 --> 15:41.760 their families who have long sought 15:41.770 --> 15:45.369 answers . Sustaining these operations 15:45.380 --> 15:48.619 is no small task . It takes cooperation 15:48.630 --> 15:51.650 on a global scale and we are grateful 15:51.659 --> 15:54.969 for the 45 nations who partner with us 15:54.979 --> 15:57.169 on this mission to search for and 15:57.179 --> 15:59.219 recover are missing from theaters 15:59.229 --> 16:01.489 around the world . That's why we're so 16:01.500 --> 16:03.278 fortunate to be joined today by 16:03.278 --> 16:06.260 ambassadors and defense attache from 16:06.270 --> 16:08.103 nations who collaborate on these 16:08.103 --> 16:11.200 efforts . This effort also includes 16:11.210 --> 16:13.154 supportive private individuals and 16:13.154 --> 16:15.429 groups and I want to acknowledge all of 16:15.440 --> 16:17.440 you here today who are representing 16:17.440 --> 16:20.359 those folks like retired marine Corps 16:20.369 --> 16:23.510 sergeant major Justin Luu , an Iraq war 16:23.520 --> 16:25.950 veteran and navy cross recipient who 16:25.960 --> 16:27.909 last year completed a 16:27.919 --> 16:31.369 3365 16:31.380 --> 16:34.070 mile walk from Boston , Massachusetts 16:34.080 --> 16:36.859 to Newport Oregon to raise awareness 16:36.869 --> 16:40.419 about DPA mission And just 16:40.429 --> 16:44.159 today this morning , he completed a 270 16:44.169 --> 16:46.113 mile march from Bedford , Virginia 16:46.113 --> 16:48.169 right here to this parade field . So 16:48.169 --> 16:50.280 thank you to Sergeant Major Lu Ho for 16:50.280 --> 16:52.502 your efforts to help find your comrades 16:52.502 --> 16:56.469 in arms . And 16:56.479 --> 16:58.535 finally , and most importantly , I'd 16:58.535 --> 17:00.646 like to recognize the families of the 17:00.646 --> 17:02.690 missing . We know that enduring the 17:02.700 --> 17:04.756 grief and uncertainty throughout the 17:04.756 --> 17:07.550 years is difficult . Please know that 17:07.560 --> 17:09.819 your missing family members are not 17:09.829 --> 17:13.619 forgotten . The DPA works tirelessly to 17:13.630 --> 17:16.329 find answers for you year in and year 17:16.339 --> 17:19.579 out . And each year we gather on this 17:19.589 --> 17:23.500 National Pow Recognition Day to assure 17:23.510 --> 17:25.969 you that we remember them and that we 17:25.979 --> 17:27.923 will not give up on our mission to 17:27.923 --> 17:29.923 account for them . So thank you for 17:29.923 --> 17:31.979 being here and for keeping the faith 17:32.890 --> 17:36.829 already . This year has accounted 17:36.839 --> 17:40.739 for 123 missing personnel members 17:40.750 --> 17:42.972 like Army Air Corps . Second Lieutenant 17:42.972 --> 17:45.609 Fred Brewer of North Carolina during 17:45.619 --> 17:47.675 world war II , Lieutenant Brewer was 17:47.675 --> 17:49.786 part of the esteemed African American 17:49.786 --> 17:51.563 fighter pilot unit known as the 17:51.563 --> 17:54.400 Tuskegee Airmen . More than seven 17:54.410 --> 17:57.750 decades ago . Brewer departed Rama Air 17:57.760 --> 18:00.280 Base in Italy to bombers to their 18:00.290 --> 18:03.550 targets in Germany on the way , his 18:03.560 --> 18:06.270 bomber group encountered heavy clouds . 18:06.280 --> 18:08.709 Lieutenant Brewer attempted a steep 18:08.719 --> 18:11.290 rise above them but his engine stalled 18:11.300 --> 18:14.689 causing his plane to crash until last 18:14.699 --> 18:17.890 month . He was one of the 26 Tuskegee 18:17.900 --> 18:20.122 airmen whose whereabouts were unknown . 18:21.160 --> 18:23.439 A rosette will now be placed next to 18:23.449 --> 18:25.616 his name on the tablets of the missing 18:25.869 --> 18:28.010 at the Florence American cemetery to 18:28.020 --> 18:30.449 indicate that he has been accounted for 18:31.089 --> 18:33.033 today , we are honored to have his 18:33.033 --> 18:35.200 cousin Brenda Brewer in the audience . 18:35.420 --> 18:37.642 Thank you for being here , Brenda . Can 18:37.642 --> 18:39.531 you stand Brenda if you're here ? 18:41.489 --> 18:43.489 Thank you Brenda for being here . I 18:43.489 --> 18:45.656 hope that Lieutenant Brewer's recovery 18:45.656 --> 18:47.711 has brought some measure of peace to 18:47.711 --> 18:51.209 you and your family . Our success 18:51.630 --> 18:53.852 in our accounting missions would not be 18:53.852 --> 18:55.797 possible . As I said , without our 18:55.797 --> 18:57.852 partners across the globe . In April 18:57.852 --> 19:00.300 2021 the Republic of Korea's Ministry 19:00.310 --> 19:02.800 for finding missing personnel came 19:02.810 --> 19:04.800 across remains near the hill where 19:04.810 --> 19:06.959 Americans went missing . During a 19:06.969 --> 19:10.689 battle in April 1951 the remains were 19:10.699 --> 19:12.959 carefully exhumed and sent to a lab for 19:12.969 --> 19:15.410 testing in the following . October , 19:15.420 --> 19:17.619 the ministry turned over those remains 19:17.630 --> 19:21.560 to DPA . After DPA sent the remains to 19:21.569 --> 19:23.920 its own lab for analysis . It was able 19:23.930 --> 19:27.000 to identify us . Army Sergeant Stanley 19:27.010 --> 19:29.709 TBA . Soon his daughter , Sandra will 19:29.719 --> 19:32.949 welcome him home more than 72 years 19:32.959 --> 19:35.292 after he went missing in the Korean War . 19:36.410 --> 19:38.521 And finally , this year , the Vietnam 19:38.521 --> 19:40.466 office for seeking missing persons 19:40.466 --> 19:42.800 celebrated its 50 th anniversary and 19:42.810 --> 19:45.260 I'd like to recognize it for its long 19:45.270 --> 19:48.380 standing mutual cooperation during the 19:48.390 --> 19:50.729 height of COVID-19 . When restrictions 19:50.739 --> 19:53.540 prevented our D team from traveling to 19:53.550 --> 19:57.449 Vietnam . Its teams trained by DPA , 19:57.579 --> 19:59.969 traveled to multiple sites looking for 19:59.979 --> 20:03.020 the remains of American personnel in 20:03.030 --> 20:05.989 March 2021 . The team visited the crash 20:06.000 --> 20:09.589 site of a 1969 F four , a two seater 20:09.599 --> 20:13.319 aircraft in Guangnan Province there . 20:13.329 --> 20:15.290 They recovered the remains of two 20:15.300 --> 20:17.829 Americans . Those of us Air Force , 20:17.839 --> 20:20.410 Colonel Ernest de Soto and Captain 20:20.420 --> 20:23.170 Frederick Hall . Colonel de Soto was 20:23.180 --> 20:25.500 given a dignified burial in June and 20:25.510 --> 20:27.566 Captain Hall will finally be laid to 20:27.566 --> 20:31.069 rest next month on October 10 , these 20:31.079 --> 20:33.209 are several of the many stories of 20:33.219 --> 20:35.330 those recovered and returned to their 20:35.330 --> 20:38.089 families . Stories of sacrifice , hope 20:38.099 --> 20:40.819 and resolve for you families of the 20:40.829 --> 20:43.209 missing . Please know your strength 20:43.219 --> 20:46.550 motivates us each day as we do this 20:46.560 --> 20:48.849 work and follow through on our solemn 20:48.859 --> 20:50.915 and unwavering commitment to achieve 20:50.915 --> 20:53.081 the fullest accounting possible of our 20:53.081 --> 20:57.020 missing personnel . Thank you . It is 20:57.030 --> 20:59.449 now my distinct privilege to introduce 20:59.459 --> 21:01.520 our next speaker , Colonel Michael 21:01.530 --> 21:04.089 Brazelton is a retired Air Force pilot 21:04.099 --> 21:06.890 and a four time silver star recipient 21:06.900 --> 21:09.260 who was held captive for more than six 21:09.270 --> 21:12.699 years in a Vietnamese prison . I'll let 21:12.709 --> 21:15.260 him tell his harrowing story , but I 21:15.270 --> 21:19.219 will say this , Colonel Braselton , 21:20.180 --> 21:23.949 your incredible courage , fortitude and 21:23.959 --> 21:27.209 patriotism is an inspiration to us all . 21:27.400 --> 21:29.511 It's an honor to have you , your wife 21:29.511 --> 21:31.789 Gloria and your oldest daughter , army , 21:31.789 --> 21:34.060 Lieutenant Colonel Adriana Brazelton 21:34.069 --> 21:36.290 with us today . Please join me in 21:36.300 --> 21:38.633 giving Colonel Brazelton a warm welcome . 22:00.010 --> 22:01.010 Thank God , 22:11.420 --> 22:13.849 good morning everyone . Thank you for 22:13.859 --> 22:17.130 inviting me to PM I a recognition day 22:17.239 --> 22:20.430 event . Once again , I am honored to be 22:20.439 --> 22:23.449 here . I would like to acknowledge all 22:23.459 --> 22:25.459 the dignitaries that are here . But 22:25.459 --> 22:27.515 that would take most of my time from 22:27.515 --> 22:30.239 the list of attendees . It seems just 22:30.250 --> 22:32.472 about everybody here is a distinguished 22:32.472 --> 22:35.050 guest and devoted to our common cause . 22:36.689 --> 22:38.911 The first day after I was shot down and 22:38.911 --> 22:40.800 captured , I was sent to a prison 22:40.800 --> 22:42.745 called the zoo on the outskirts of 22:42.745 --> 22:45.530 Hanoi . I was put in isolation in a 22:45.540 --> 22:48.670 building . We call the office until you 22:48.680 --> 22:51.719 get used to being solo confinement is a 22:51.729 --> 22:55.310 devastating , devastating for the 22:55.319 --> 22:58.660 mind . However , within a day or so I 22:58.670 --> 23:00.837 realized there were other Americans in 23:00.837 --> 23:03.550 the office with me by counting dishes . 23:03.560 --> 23:05.727 I sur surprised that there were six of 23:05.727 --> 23:07.969 us there . I had a compulsion to 23:07.979 --> 23:10.579 contact him probably because I was 23:10.589 --> 23:13.250 anxious for companionship and I didn't 23:13.260 --> 23:16.810 want to be so alone . I shared a wall 23:16.819 --> 23:18.986 with one cell and I tapped the wall to 23:18.986 --> 23:21.170 get the prisoner's attention . Over 23:21.180 --> 23:24.349 time , I learned his name . I tapped to 23:24.359 --> 23:26.470 another cell that was candy corner to 23:26.470 --> 23:28.303 me and got the name of another . 23:30.640 --> 23:32.584 A few weeks later , a new American 23:32.584 --> 23:35.550 pilot was headed , I contacted him by 23:36.020 --> 23:37.520 talking under the door . 23:46.069 --> 23:47.958 Five months later , I was given a 23:47.958 --> 23:50.069 roommate . It moved into a building . 23:50.069 --> 23:52.739 We called the pool hall . It had 22 man 23:52.750 --> 23:56.449 cells in it . The 22 pws on the other 23:56.459 --> 23:59.349 side of our back wall were old timers 23:59.550 --> 24:01.989 who had been pows for a year and a half 24:02.770 --> 24:04.881 by tapping , they filled us in on the 24:04.881 --> 24:07.048 rules of engagement , set up by senior 24:07.048 --> 24:09.214 pows before they were removed from the 24:09.214 --> 24:11.810 general population . The major 24:11.819 --> 24:14.020 directive of course was to follow the 24:14.030 --> 24:18.000 code of conduct . The second was 24:18.010 --> 24:20.439 to collect names for us . It was 24:20.449 --> 24:22.671 vitally important to learn the names of 24:22.671 --> 24:25.739 every pow who was in the system and 24:25.750 --> 24:29.380 know where they were located . If , if 24:29.390 --> 24:32.739 anything were to happen to me , there 24:32.750 --> 24:35.020 would be people who knew I was a pow 24:35.599 --> 24:37.766 and would probably know how I perished 24:40.089 --> 24:43.719 as it turned out . Seaman Doug 24:43.890 --> 24:46.180 Hedo . A few years later , an early 24:46.189 --> 24:49.739 release had memorized more than 250 pow 24:49.750 --> 24:52.020 names and repeated them to the 24:52.030 --> 24:53.863 authorities back home and to the 24:53.863 --> 24:56.189 families . It was the first news my 24:56.199 --> 24:58.979 parents and sisters had that confirmed 24:58.989 --> 25:02.660 that I was alive whenever the 25:02.670 --> 25:04.948 Vietnamese authorities moved us around , 25:04.948 --> 25:07.400 which wasn't often our primary job was 25:07.410 --> 25:10.459 to figure out where everybody was 25:10.739 --> 25:12.949 determined if anybody was missing , 25:12.959 --> 25:16.170 perhaps taken to another camp and and 25:16.180 --> 25:18.660 identify any new prisoners in the camp . 25:19.479 --> 25:22.699 We did this by tamping by note drops by 25:22.709 --> 25:25.599 flashing from building to building and 25:25.609 --> 25:28.839 the use of a hand code . In addition to 25:28.849 --> 25:31.071 just learning the names , we could keep 25:31.071 --> 25:32.849 track of Pow's health . Pass on 25:32.859 --> 25:35.081 information learned in interrogations , 25:35.380 --> 25:37.547 disperse guidance received from senior 25:37.547 --> 25:39.602 ranking officers in dealing with the 25:39.602 --> 25:41.630 prison officials and guards and get 25:41.640 --> 25:43.862 information from home that might not be 25:43.862 --> 25:47.170 available to pows in general . 25:48.160 --> 25:50.104 In one example , the pilot who was 25:50.104 --> 25:52.550 responsible for sending my belongings 25:52.560 --> 25:56.140 home after I was shot down and writing 25:56.150 --> 25:59.180 letters to my family was himself shot 25:59.189 --> 26:02.189 down and captured several weeks after I 26:02.199 --> 26:05.579 was eventually , I mean , eventually a 26:05.589 --> 26:08.310 couple of years later , he filled me on 26:08.319 --> 26:10.319 the letters he had received from my 26:10.319 --> 26:12.660 parents and friends . Basically , we 26:12.670 --> 26:14.892 were accounting for our friends , which 26:14.892 --> 26:17.449 is essentially what d is doing on a 26:17.459 --> 26:21.449 much grander scale along with its 26:21.459 --> 26:24.410 counterparts in other countries . And 26:24.420 --> 26:26.642 in unison with the league of families , 26:26.670 --> 26:29.003 we want an accounting of those soldiers , 26:29.003 --> 26:31.170 sailors , airmen , marines and 26:31.180 --> 26:34.260 civilians . Our friends who did not 26:34.270 --> 26:38.010 come home in some cases , the remains 26:38.020 --> 26:40.242 can be recovered which provides a great 26:40.242 --> 26:42.410 deal of closure to the families . In 26:42.420 --> 26:44.969 the saddest of these cases . There are 26:44.979 --> 26:46.439 no remains to be found 26:49.109 --> 26:51.060 for the past 35 years , the United 26:51.069 --> 26:53.670 States and Vietnam , two nations that 26:53.680 --> 26:55.569 were once adversaries have worked 26:55.569 --> 26:58.030 together to account for the missing of 26:58.040 --> 27:01.010 both nations . It is this cooperation 27:01.020 --> 27:03.076 that has drawn nations , our nations 27:03.076 --> 27:05.310 closer together and helped heal the 27:05.319 --> 27:09.069 legacies of war . The parents for the 27:09.079 --> 27:11.246 unaccounted for have for the most part 27:11.349 --> 27:14.199 passed on . Their brothers and sisters 27:14.209 --> 27:16.650 are my age in their 70 s and 80 s . 27:17.619 --> 27:19.841 Their Children are in their fifties and 27:19.841 --> 27:22.510 sixties , but still at the very least 27:22.849 --> 27:24.793 they want to know what happened to 27:24.793 --> 27:26.905 their loved one . I cannot think of a 27:26.910 --> 27:29.339 more noble mission to determine what 27:29.349 --> 27:32.119 happened to our missing compatriots to 27:32.130 --> 27:34.408 bring their remains home , if possible , 27:35.030 --> 27:38.910 provide information on when , where and 27:38.920 --> 27:41.500 how unrecoverable friends met their 27:41.510 --> 27:45.430 fate . A few weeks ago , 27:46.630 --> 27:50.209 close to last Memorial Day and I were 27:50.219 --> 27:52.400 attending a music salon at the home of 27:52.410 --> 27:54.670 a good friend of ours . At the 27:54.680 --> 27:56.939 beginning of the program , he made a 27:56.949 --> 27:59.060 few remarks about the significance of 27:59.060 --> 28:02.579 the day . He also mentioned to a 28:02.589 --> 28:04.811 gathering of about 50 people that I had 28:04.811 --> 28:08.209 been a pow for almost seven years to my 28:08.219 --> 28:10.386 surprise and embarrassment . Everybody 28:10.386 --> 28:12.780 stood and applauded . I turned to the 28:12.790 --> 28:15.189 lady next to me . A stranger and said , 28:15.810 --> 28:18.032 I can't believe that the POWs are still 28:18.032 --> 28:20.540 regarded so highly more than 50 years 28:20.550 --> 28:23.400 after the war . The lady turned to me 28:23.410 --> 28:25.939 and said some things should never be 28:25.949 --> 28:29.900 forgotten . Likewise , our friends from 28:29.910 --> 28:32.569 World War II , Korea Vietnam and the 28:32.579 --> 28:35.209 Mid East who did not come home should 28:35.219 --> 28:37.430 never be forgotten by their countrymen 28:37.439 --> 28:41.420 and women should always work to the 28:41.430 --> 28:43.374 fullest possible accounting of our 28:43.380 --> 28:46.660 missing , the observance of National 28:46.670 --> 28:50.469 Pow Ma Recognition Day and the mission 28:50.479 --> 28:54.290 of a defense pow Mia accounting agency 28:54.619 --> 28:57.569 shows that they have not been forgotten . 28:58.420 --> 28:59.420 Thank you . 29:16.239 --> 29:18.017 Would all families representing 29:18.017 --> 29:20.239 prisoners of war in those still missing 29:20.239 --> 29:22.517 in action ? Please stand to be honored . 30:00.010 --> 30:00.339 Hi , 30:14.140 --> 30:15.140 ready . 30:34.489 --> 30:35.489 Right . 30:50.800 --> 30:51.800 One . 30:55.079 --> 30:56.079 No , 30:59.300 --> 31:00.300 I 31:52.280 --> 31:52.849 Right . 32:50.130 --> 32:52.030 Right . Right . 33:04.630 --> 33:05.630 Done . 33:10.060 --> 33:10.520 Right . 33:21.810 --> 33:22.420 Right . 33:33.640 --> 33:34.229 What do 35:55.429 --> 35:57.469 at this time ? Please stand as the 35:57.479 --> 35:59.879 United States Army band plays the joint 35:59.889 --> 36:00.989 service medley . 38:59.969 --> 39:00.969 Yeah . 39:05.540 --> 39:05.739 Um 39:09.800 --> 39:10.800 That 39:48.939 --> 39:49.939 right , 39:55.239 --> 39:57.295 ladies and gentlemen , please direct 39:57.295 --> 39:59.350 your attention skyward for a flyover 39:59.360 --> 40:02.000 honoring America's prisoners of war and 40:02.010 --> 40:03.121 missing in action . 40:59.209 --> 41:01.320 Ladies and gentlemen , this concludes 41:01.330 --> 41:04.250 the Department of Defense 2023 National 41:04.260 --> 41:07.679 Pow Ma Recognition Day ceremony . Thank 41:07.689 --> 41:09.989 you for attending and enjoy the rest of 41:10.000 --> 41:10.530 your day .