Donate to the POW Network ... it's a good thing.

[A4sForever]

Ladies and Gentlemen ... and the rest of you, also:

With the concurrence of the Webmaster and the support of this fine website ... please consider making a donation to the P.O.W. Network.

The folks who run it are first class people AND they carry on the time honored tradition of "looking out for our own" .... with little fanfare and often the only reward is in the knowledge of a job well done ....

In 2005, the POW Network was recognized by the Red River Fighter Pilots' Assn. as the "Association of the Year" for their work.

They are an IRS 501 C3 organization, so your donation is tax deductible as well ... I sent them a donation today.

They have been up and running since 11/11/89 and are dedicated to information distribution on Prisoners of War and those who remain Missing in Action ... check their website and click on the "donations" link.

You won't be sorry.

http://pownetwork.org/

P.O.W. NETWORK Organization

Be the one that remembers!

 

[A4sForever]

As I don't think some have picked up on this one as yet ... let me bump it back up.

The POW Network: These are also the people who pony up when the chips are down and expose the pretenders and phonies, some of whom have visited this website in the past .....

As a result, the POW Network has been threatened by at least one of these individuals with legal action, because that's what bullies and frauds do ...

As such, in addition to their other fine work, they are worthy of an extra measure of support from us. They stand behind us and our POW/MIA Brothers-in-Arms ... so let us stand behind them.

 

[schwarti]

I'll be donating as soon as my paycheck comes clear. These guys have done some great stuff.

 

[feddoc]

It's .... about doing the right thing.


Here is but one reason to donate; to preserve the honor of guys like this:
http://thewall-usa.com/guest.asp?recid=41290

Here is William's entry in the book titled "Vietnam Medal of Honor Heroes" by Edward F. Murphy. A divorce sent William D. Port of Petersburg, Pennsylvania to Vietnan. The draft wouldn't touch you if you were married and had children. As it was, Port's ex-wife got their two children and the Army got Bill Port. He was inducted in March of 1967, six months short of his twenty-sixth birthday. Following basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia, Port went to Vietnam and Company C, 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division. On January 12, 1968, Port's company battled superior enemy forces in the Que Son Valley of Quang Tin Province. His platoon gave ground under heavy fire. Although wounded in the hand during this movement, Port still helped a more seriously wounded soldier to safety. Later, huddled together with three other casualties, Port saved their lives by covering an enemy grenade with his own body, sustaining severe injuries in the head, chest, arms, and legs. For two-and-one-half hours the platoon medic worked on Port, but then the VC forced the platoon to retreat. Port, whom the medic reported as dead, was left behind. When the platoon retook the area his body could not be found. The Army carried him as missing in action for four months before changing his status to presumed dead. But Port was not dead. Grievously wounded but still alive, Port had been taken prisoner by the VC. They treated him at their field hospital for a month before releasing him to a POW camp deep in the jungle. Never fully recovered from his shattering wounds, Port languished in the primitive camp for ten months before he died on November 27, 1968. In December 1969 the Army listed Port as dead and notified his family for the first time that he had been held prisoner. Not until the POWs came home in 1973 were full details of Port's death and burial in the jungle reported to the family. In the meantime, Port's posthumous Medal of Honor was approved and presented to his son and daughter by President Nixon on August 6, 1970. As the years passed the family gave up hope that Port's remains would be found. Then, in August 1985, a team of American investigators, working with a more liberal Vietnamese government, was led to a common gravesite holding the remains of nine American POWs. In October of that year Port's remains were positively identified as on of the nine. Following funeral services in his hometown, William D. Port was interred in Arlington National Cemetery. He was the last Medal of Honor hero to come home from Vietnam.

 

[A4sForever]

I'll be donating .... These guys have done some great stuff.

It's .... about doing the right thing.

I gave ....

Good men, all ....

 

[BlkPny]

Its the least we could do......

 

[GroundPounder]

Just saw this thread, Check is written and in mail box.

 

[Mumbles]

I'll be giving to these folks regardless....but are they in the CFC catalogue?? I have one at my desk at work. I'll have to check on Monday. If not, they should be....considering some of the freaky groups that are included in CFC, (i.e. lesbian, gay, transgendered, C.A.I.R., et. al.)

 

[Tex_Hill]

I'll be giving to these folks regardless....but are they in the CFC catalogue?? I have one at my desk at work. I'll have to check on Monday. If not, they should be....considering some of the freaky groups that are included in CFC, (i.e. lesbian, gay, transgendered, C.A.I.R., et. al.)

CFC?

 

[Pugs]

CFC?

Combined Federal Campaign -

 

[Mumbles]

I didn't mean that POW network should be associated with the other CFC groups, Tex. It's just a very motley crew of organizations vying for the $ of federal employees with CFC.

 

[BigIron]

Combined Federal Campaign. Donating cash or via monthly payroll deductions to a government approved charity of your choice. Every Oct-Dec.

Then Navy Marine Corps Relief Society in March.

 

[Flash]

I'll be giving to these folks regardless....but are they in the CFC catalogue?? I have one at my desk at work. I'll have to check on Monday. If not, they should be....considering some of the freaky groups that are included in CFC, (i.e. lesbian, gay, transgendered, C.A.I.R., et. al.)

I think getting listed in the CFC takes a bit of work, admin wise, and the POW Network guys might not have the time to get it done.

 

[Mumbles]

I could use a fitrep bullet....

 

[Flash]

I could use a fitrep bullet....

Or a Navy Comm?