Northeast POW/MIA Network NH Freedom Ride

Welcome

Freedom Ride

Freedom Ride

The POW/MIA

NH POW/MIAs

Terminology

President's Page

Politics and Legislation

Events

Photos

Archived Items

Archived Items

Contact Us

The New Hampshire Freedom Ride

"As an American asked to serve, I was prepared to fight,
to be wounded,to be captured and even prepared to die,
but I was not prepared to be abandoned."

(Former POW Eugene "Red" McDaniel - Source:
VVnW POW/MIA Page)

FLASH -- Remember Ahmed Altaie POW in Iraq since Oct 23, 2006.... PFC Bowe Berghal POW in Afghanistan since June 30, 2009....

SAVE THE DATE
POW/MIA VIGIL AND FREEDOM RIDE
JUNE 14, 2012 ~ THURSDAY @ 7:00 PM
HESKY PARK MEREDITH

Captured by an insurgency, not unlike the Viet Cong, these service members were not designated Prisoner of War. Instead they are given the ambiguous status of Missing/Captured.

Neither International Law or the Geneva Conventions makes any mention of individuals carried by their countries as Missing/Captured or MIA-C. We realize that our enemies violate the rules of international law and the Geneva Conventions regarding the care and treatment of captured American Service Personnel. Terminology will not change that. Terminology does change world perception regarding the value we place on our captured personnel.

Doesn't it downgrade the worth of a battered American service member, displayed on television worldwide, for the Department of Defense to designate him or her Missing/Captured rather than Prisoner of War?

The status Missing/Captured fails to provide this nations service members the moral dignity and international recognition provided by the Prisoner of War status.

Who wants to tell these servicemen they are not a Prisoner of War?

Have YOU contacted your legislative leaders concerning the terminology?

Have YOU asked them to account for our POW/MIAs?

pow flag

24th Anniversary of the Vigil
19th Anniversary of the Freedom Ride

Danny "Greasy" Belcher, Executive Director
Executive Director, Task Force Omega of KY Inc.
Vietnam Infantry Sgt. 68-69
"D" Troop 7th Sqdn. 1st Air Cav.

Are we repeating history in another war with our POW/MIAs?
Sure looks like it.

Click on the link below and read for yourself. You be the judge.
I asked Monica Jensen-Stevenson to review all of the evidence on Afghanistan POW Bergdahl and compare his situtation to Vietnam POW Bobby Garwood. I was seeing the same lies about Bergdahl being told as the truth with out any evidence. He was being abandoned from the start by those in control within our government.

Monica Jensen-Stevenson is a former Emmy award winning producer for Sixty Minutes and the author of Kiss The Boys Goodbye. Her husband William Stevenson is the author of A Man Called Intrepid. Both know the intelligence and media community better than most people. They have always been professional and thorough in investigating a situtation. They are two of only a handful of people I trust on the POW issue and the intelligence gathering community. Their record is the best out there.

Please read Monica's statement and let's do something to bring Afghanistan POW Bowe Bergdahl home. Enough lies and talk with no action. It is time to bring him home.

http://www.greasyonline.com/article219.html

The Waiting ~ Just four U.S. soldiers are missing in Iraq.
For their parents, it's a lonely vigil.
By GINA CHON

We are a completely volunteer organization, veterans and non-veterans, using awareness, communication, education, legislation, and compassion to assuage the pain associated with one of the most devastating outcomes of service to one’s Country. As we honor POW/MIAs, returned and still waiting to come home, we aggressively pursue means to return the missing and protect those serving.