POW*MIA Awareness Rally

“The family of the only U.S. soldier held by the Taliban is optimistic about a possible deal that would allow insurgents to open an office in Gulf nation of Qatar with the aim of holding talks with the United States.
Bowe Bergdahl, a 25-year-old Army sergeant from Hailey, Idaho, was taken prisoner June 30, 2009, in Afganistan.
His parents, Bob and Jani Bergdahl, released a statement Wednesday through the Idaho National Guard expressing hope their son would be returned home safely as soon as possible.
The family says that “serious discussions among diplomats are the most likely way to make this happen.”
Standing with you Bowe and your family.

Not only is “Thumper” an awesome monster truck, but the owner of RideAMonster.com donates a significant portion of his proceeds to the POW*MIA Awareness Assoc.! Check out this awesome website and go take a ride for the fun of it, and to support the troops!

Can you feel it? You always wanted to ride a monster truck! Now, you have climbed the ladder into the ride area of “Thumper”, our real monster ride truck. You are high in the air, looking down at the people, the ground, and the obstacles below. You are safely belted into the comfortable wrap-around racing seats. 

Cameras click and movie cameras purr as friends, family, and people you don’t even know take pictures, movies, and wave.

As you look up through the safety roll bar cage surrounding you, you hear the 500 horse power modified Ford engine as it roars to life. You feel the power, hear the thunder, and you know… you are in for a ride!

Excitement builds, as you realize this IS a REAL monster truck!

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A plea from the father of U.S. Army PFC Bowe Bergdahl, who was captured by the Taliban in Pakistan.

This is why we do what we do at the POW MIA Awareness Rally. Bowe, you are not forgotten.

Click here to view the original article at the Baltimore Sun.

Pfc. Robert B. Bayne to be buried in family plot
March 23, 2011|By Mary Gail Hare, The Baltimore Sun

Kenneth Bayne received a call from the Army on Wednesday with news he has awaited for nearly 66 years. His elder brother, Pfc. Robert B. Bayne, who was killed in action in 1945, is coming home from World War II.

DNA taken from Kenneth and his twin brother, Calvin Bayne, has helped the Army to positively identify their brother’s remains.

“They just contacted me and said Buddy will be home in a week or two,” said an emotional Kenneth Bayne, 83. “On Monday, it will be 66 years to the day that he went missing.”

Bayne has put a large photograph of the young man he called Buddy in the window of his Dundalk home.
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Click here to view the original article on the Defense.gov website.

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and are being returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

Pfc. Robert B. Bayne, of Dundalk, Md., will be buried on May 7 in his hometown. On March 28, 1945, while patrolling the Rhine River in an inflatable raft, Bayne, a lieutenant and two other enlisted men were attacked near Schwegenheim, Germany. Bayne and the officer were wounded, forcing all four men into the swift waters of the river. The lieutenant was rescued but the enlisted men were not found.

Between 1945 and 1946, Army Graves Registration personnel exhumed remains of three men from two different locations when German citizens reported the graves contained remains of American soldiers recovered from the river in March 1945. Among items found with the remains were military identification tags. Two of the men were identified as enlisted men from the raft — Pvt. Edward Kulback and Pfc. William Gaffney — but due to limited forensic science of the time, the remains of the other individual could not be identified and were interred at the U.S. Military Cemetery in St. Avold, France as “unknown.”
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Here is a video about some like minded people on a journey to the Rolling Thunder last year. This was put together by someone who thinks pretty highly of what we do. So highly he might just send us some to give out at our General Meeting this Friday (May 13th) at the Red Lion in Pocatello! Come check it out!

Click here to visit the official site for “Road to Thunder”.

Click here to visit the Amazon page where you can pre-order the video

AFTER WEARING MIA BRACELET FOR 22 YEARS, VANDENBERG VICE WING COMMANDER WILL ESCORT HOME VIETNAM WAR PILOT’S REMAINS

On the day Keith Balts was born, an Air Force lieutenant colonel’s plane crashed in Laos, the first of several times the two lives would intersect during the next four decades.
In 1988, their stories converged again when Balts, an ROTC freshman, chose to don the POW/MIA bracelet bearing the name of Lt. Col. William L. Kieffer Jr.
This month, Balts, who has worn the silver bracelet remembering the Vietnam War-era officer for more than two decades, will escort home Kieffer’s recently identified remains.

Click here to read the whole story on the Santa Maria Times (santamariatimes.com)

Our Sister Organization in Elko, Nevada just had another incredibly successful Chili Feed to help them raise funds for the National League of POW*MIA Families.  Due to their hard work and generosity of their local businesses and patrons, they were able to present a check for $18,256 to the National League of Families!  INCREDIBLY DONE ELKO POW*MIA!  You can see pictures of this event at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Elko-POWMIA-Awareness-Association