Tomorrow, the 19th of September, is National POW/MIA Recognition Day in the US. Most people don't know about this day. There was a short article in one of our local newspapers that I thought you all would appreciate. Here are some sobering numbers to think about:

Since World War I, more than 140,000 American have suffered the hardships of captivity as prisoners of war. That's not counting the missing and unaccounted for.

More than 78,000 Americans are missing from World War II.

More than 8,100 Americans from the Korean War including 389 people who were at one time listed as prisoners of war. The remains of most of these were never returned or identified.

More than 120 Americans from the Cold War era. Most were lost conducting reconnaissance missions over and around the territory of the former Soviet Union and China.

1,912 Americans in southeast Asia, including 1,444 still unaccounted for from Vietnam, 402 unaccounted for from Laos, 58 from Cambodia and 8 from China.

1 US pilot is still missing in action from the Persian Gulf War.

So many soldiers gone; so many families mourning; so many parents, wives, children and friends waiting.