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Maine Veterans Spotlight 9/21/25

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Maine Veterans Spotlight 9/21/25

National POW/MIA Recognition Day is observed on the third Friday in September. It honors those who were prisoners of war and those who are still missing in action.

Karen Worcester POW-MIA DAY 1410 Corporal Stanley Wojtusik was among hundreds of American soldiers with the 422nd Infantry Regiment forced to surrender on December 19, 1944. Mike Hall from Brunswick, Maine, USMC Veteran, on the significance of National POW/MIA Day. Director Kelly McKeague the Director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, discusses the work they do. Cmdr. Brian Wierzbicki, Chief of Public Engagement for The United States of America, Vietnam War 50th Commemoration, about the day’s significance.

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