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Wisconsin
POW-MIA National Balloon Launch
Doc's
Last Launch
May 27,
2013
THANKS
TO ALL MY WONDERFUL VOLUNTEERS & SPONSORS
50 degree's Cloudy
- Cold
At 10am the Volunteers
began preparing for Docs 16th and final
POW/MIA Balloon Launch.
Balloons were being filled and the volunteers
were all in good spirits.
Ceremonys began at 2:45pm and a large crowd
was on hand to see
the Tribute.
Thank You to all the
Volunteers for being there for me all these year.
There were many tears
flowing through the crowd as Doc talked about our POW/MIA's
and what it has meant
for him for the past 16 years.
The wind was kickin
butt, and looks like the balloons were headed for Minnesota and beyond.
If so, that would be
the 1st time ever, that they headed West.
Remembering those who
have fallen and those who are still POW-MIA
Thats what this event
was all about.
10th Annual Wisconsin POW-MIA
Balloon Launch
Wisconsin's 10th annual POW-MIA Balloon Launch
in 2007, was to be the last ever held.
But "Doc" Dentice has kept it going until
the final launch in 2013.
Many want him to run one more very special POW/MIA
launch on Milwaukee's lakefront at the Vietnam Vets Memorial.
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Wisconsin POW-MIA Balloon Launch
Wind Lake WI
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WISCONSIN
VIETNAM
POW/MIA WISCONSIN - ACCOUNTED FOR
VIETNAM POW/MIA WISCONSIN - UNACCOUNTED FOR
KOREA POW/MIA WISCONSIN - ACCOUNTED FOR
KOREA POW/MIA WISCONSIN - UNACCOUNTED FOR
WWII POW/MIA WISCONSIN - UNACCOUNTED FOR
WISCONSIN
UNACCOUNTED FOR - COLD WAR
WISCONSIN DELAVAN DUCHARME,
GARY RAY USN 0009178658 E4 CT3 4/15/1969 EC121 MM 5/2/1969
Operation Desert Storm, 1991
Lt. Cmdr. Barry T. Cooke, of Austin,
Texas, U.S. Navy, was lost on Feb. 2, 1991, when his A-6 aircraft went
down in the Persian Gulf.
Lt. Robert J. Dwyer, of Worthington,
Ohio, U.S. Navy, was lost on Feb. 5, 1991, when his FA-18 aircraft went
down in the Persian Gulf.
MISSING
IN ACTION
The Missing in Action Recovery
and Identification Project.
POW/MIA RECENTLY ACCOUNTED FOR
SEARCHABLE LIST OF THE MISSING
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ON THE WARS BELOW
Hales
Corners Wisconsin
2018
POW-MIA Recognition Day Rally
POW/MIA
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72,220 |
7,497 |
132 |
1,579 |
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1,579Americans are still
missing and unaccounted for from the Vietnam War:
Vietnam - 1,241 Laos
- 285 Cambodia - 48
Peoples Republic of China territorial
waters - 7
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Wisconsin
Vietnam POW/MIA 40 Tribute By Jeff Doc Dentice
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On The Logo Above
Jeff Doc Dentice
- POW/MIA Wisconsin National Balloon Launch
POW-MIA RECOGNITION DAY POSTERS
DOC HAS ALL YEARS DISPLAYED
Doc Dentice and Virginia Vanbendegom (Mother
of POW/MIA James Vanbendegom)
Wisconsin 2015 POW-MIA Recognition Day Rally
- Hales Corners
James Vanbendegom was MIA in Vietnam.
James was returned to Wisconsin in 2015, and
buried with Military Honors.
10TH
ANNIVERSARY
WISCONSIN
POW-MIA NATIONAL BALLOON LAUNCH
25,000 BALLOONS -
LARGEST LAUNCH IN THE COUNTRY
PART
I
PART
I
Wisconsin
1998-2013
Freedom
Fighters
Last
& Final National POW/MIA Balloon Launch
16
Years - Largest Launch In The U.S.A.
BALLOON LAUNCHES AFTER 2013 IN AMERICA
WOULD BE LOCAL EVENTS - NOT NATIONAL
DOCS LAST LAUNCH, WAS THE FINAL
FREEDOM FIGHTERS EVENT IN THE U.S.A.
DOC STARTED WISCONSINS 1ST LAUNCH
IN BACK IN 1998
THE EVENT IN WIND LAKE, WI. IN 2014, WAS THEIR 1ST LOCAL EVENT.
A Nites POW/MIA Watch! 52nd Fighter
Wing
September 18-19, 2014
http://youtu.be/8g2i-6StV3o
American
POWs Kept Behind After the Korean War
What
Happened to Them?
Korean
War Personnel Fact Sheet
Wisconsin
2014 POW-MIA Recognition Day Rally
59 Possible Live POWs In Vietnam
19 New POWs still held in Vietnam
"Defense Department files contain evidence
that at least 59 Americans were -- or may have been --
taken prisoner and their precise fate is still
unclear. This includes the 20-30 not officially acknowledged by
Vietnam in 1973. This represents the minimum
number of possible live POWs today."
American officials believed from the earliest days of the armistice that concluded the Korean War without a formal peace treaty in July 1953 that the Chinese and North Koreans withheld a number of U.S. POWs, possibly in retaliation for U.S. refusal to repatriate those Chinese and North Korean POWs who chose not to be returned to their home country out of fear of retribution.
Gen. Mark W. Clark, the American commander of U.S.-led forces during the final stages of the Korean War, wrote in a 1954 account that "we had solid evidence" that hundreds of captive Americans were held back by the Chinese and North Koreans, possibly as leverage to gain a China seat on the U.N. Security Council.
Over time, however, U.S. officials muted their concerns, while periodically pressing the Chinese in private. Publicly, the Pentagon's stance today is that China returned all the U.S. POWs it held.
On June 1, 1951, Captain Harry Cecil Moore, an
Air Force Pilot during the Korean War, was shot down by enemy fire in North
Korea.
Unaccounted For
POW/MIA
WWII - 73,690
Korean War - 7,910
War Cold War -126
Vietnam War - 1,602
Gulf War - 2
Iraqi Freedom - 1
Enduring Freedom - 1
Wisconsin's
Doc's
6th & Final
Wisconsin POW-MIA Balloon Launch
On Milwaukees Lakefront
Wisconsin
POW-MIA Launch Video
Launch
Video-Missing Man Table Ceremony
Check out the Wisconsin POW-MIA
Balloon Launch Video
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Contact List for Congressional Representatives-http://www.nationalalliance.org/legis/110congress.htm
Sample Letter You Can Use-http://www.nationalalliance.org/legis/sample.htm
Jen Bauer
http://www.powmiaff.org
DOC
With the help
of all of your team in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
this event has been one of our most successful in
reaching folks
about the issue and helping to keep the issue alive.
On behalf of the
Executive Board and Membership of the POW/MIA Freedom
Fighters, we
would like to present you with this Special Recognition Award for
Exceptional and
Continual Service Above and Beyond on Behalf of our
POW/MIA's.
This award was created especially for you all by our board members.
To: Jeff Doc Dentice
Dear Doc,
I
don't know if you remember ex-POW Col. Ted Guy, but back in 1998 when we
first came up with the
idea of getting communities to do a POW/MIA Balloon Launch, we got a lot
of heat from POW/MIA
activists balking at the idea. But Col. Guy told me to hang in there and
to get this event going. He felt it
was a great way to keep this issue alive. With the help of all of your
team in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this
event has been our Largest & most successful in reaching folks about
the issue and
helping to keep the issue alive.
On behalf of the Executive Board and Membership
of the POW/MIA Freedom Fighters, we would like to
present you with this Special Recognition
Award for Exceptional and Continual Service Above
and Beyond on Behalf of our POW/MIA's.
Thanks to all of you that made this happen,
the Milwaukee, Wisconsin POW/MIA Balloon Launch has
been one of our oldest POW/MIA events, having
participated since day one in 1998, and has become
one of our largest launches, reaching folks
that never knew about the issue.
We want to personally thank all of you that
have participated since day one, and including those that
have participated in this last POW/MIA Balloon
Launch on Memorial Day 2004:
This award is not given lightly. In fact, as
a member of the POW/MIA Freedom Fighters,
you and your team, are our very first
recipients.
Thank you again for another job well done!
Keep up the great work!
God Bless!
Jen Bauer
President & Founder, POW/MIA Freedom Fighters
Vietnam POW exhibit open at Air Force museum
DAYTON, Ohio (AFPN) -- Visitors can get a rare
glimpse into the lives of prisoners of war through
a dramatic new exhibit at the National Museum
of the United States Air Force.
The exhibit, titled "Return with Honor: American
Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia," located in the
museum's Modern Flight Gallery, is now open to
the public.
Visitors enter the exhibit next to a reproduced
doorway to the "Hanoi Hilton," the name given by Americans to Hoa Lo Prison.
Photographs, videos, dioramas and artifacts tell
the story of prisoner torture, political exploitation,
filthy living conditions and endless attempts
at communist indoctrination.
Visitors can look inside re-created, life-size
prison cells for an up-close picture of POW living conditions. Several
artifacts, including
handmade games, rings, cigarette cases and clothing
that were created by the prisoners during their confinement, also are on
display.
"We are extremely honored to have an exhibit that
pays tribute to the courage and bravery exemplified by these POWs," said
museum
director retired Maj. Gen. Charles D. Metcalf.
"The POW story is one that ignites emotion and this exhibit will give visitors
a greater understanding of the inhumane conditions
the POWs endured."
The exhibit also features a Son Tay prison camp
rescue raid display. Although the raiders in November 1970 found that the
prison camp
did not hold any POWs, the raid proved a success
in other ways. A daring raid so close to Hanoi showed that the United States
had
the will to carry out exceptional operations
to ensure POW well-being. POW morale soared on account of the raid.
The exhibit also highlights the story of U.S.
forces' final combat in Southeast Asia, which occurred in May 1975 when
the American cargo
ship SS Mayaguez was seized by the Cambodian
Khmer Rouge navy while it was in international waters. Featured in this
display are a
life ring from the Mayaguez and a beret worn
by one of the pararescuemen who participated in the operation.
The National Museum of the United States Air Force
is located on Springfield Pike, six miles northeast of downtown Dayton.
It is open 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. seven days a week (closed Thanksgiving,
Christmas and New Year's Day).
Admission to the museum and parking are free.
For more information about this and other exhibits at the museum, please
call (937) 255-3286, Ext. 302.
"POW-MIA
FLAG"
"IS HANGING HIGH AT MILLER
PARK IN MILWAUKEE"
Still
Hanging High
The New Miller Park Stadium
in Milwaukee Wisconsin
is flying the POW-MIA flag in left
field. When "Doc" asked
Ms. Wendy Selig Prieb the owner
of the Milwaukee Brewers
if she would do this for our POW-MIAS
she said she would
get back to me. Well she did and
had A custom huge POW-MIA banner
made and hung in the stadium. Her
email to me a weeks ago telling me it was
a done deal was more then I could
have imagined. The Veterans in
Wisconsin send a Proud Salute to
Ms. Prieb for going the eatra mile. I can
only hope that all the stadiums
across the country will follow
her lead in making sure that our
Nation's Hero's will never be forgotten....
Thank's Wendy!
You've made this Vietnam Medic A believer.
Jeff Doc Dentice
Photo taken while on their tour
in Iraq last fall at Balad AFB in the middle of the Sunni Triangle.
I'm pretty sure that the F-16
that was carrying the bomb was with his squadron,
the Black Widow Squadron from
Hill AFB in Ogden, Utah
POW/MIA Hour
With/ Rod Utec
4:00pm Central
Every Sunday Afternoon
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Your own Son was a prisoner. Condemned, he died for us. Victorious, He returned to bring us the gift of life everlasting. Comfort us now in our longing for the return of the Prisoners Of War and those Missing In Action. Help Us Father;
Guard and bless those in captivity,
their families,
Thank you Father.
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http://www.americanewsnet.com
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We
also broadcast on KHNC-AM, 1360khz, Johnstown,
Colorado.
10,000 watts covering the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies.
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Name: Paul
Reid Frazier
Rank/Branch:
E5/US Army
Unit:
191st Assault Helicopter Co.
214th
Aviation Group, 1st Aviation Brigade
Date
of Birth: 11 March 1949
Home
City of Record: Milwaukee WI
Date
of Loss: 03 September 1968
Numerous hamlets and villages of various sizes surrounded the area of
loss. It was also laced with rivers, canals, waterways and rice fields.
There
were two primary roads running south from Saigon that bracketed the
crash site. One was located 1 mile west of the helicopter's wreckage, and
the other was 3 miles east of it.
Search and Recovery (SAR) operations were immediately initiated and
American ground forces inspected the crash site within 4 to 8 hours of
the
crash. With the exception of Sgt. Frazier, the remains of the rest of the
personnel aboard the Huey were recovered. Those remains were
transported to a US military mortuary in Saigon where they were later
identified and returned to the men's families for burial.
The crash site was inspected thoroughly on 7 and 8 May 1973 by a Graves
Registration team from the Joint Casualty Resolution Center (JCRC) who
confirmed the identification of this helicopter as being Sgt. Frazier's
aircraft.
No remains were found in or around the crash site during this
search. At the time this SAR operation was terminated, Paul Frazier was
listed Killed in Action/Body Not Recovered.
On 29 June 1973, nearly 5 years after his loss and 6 months after the end
of US involvement in the war, JCRC personnel determined that for Paul
Frazier "no remains were recoverable as his remains were destroyed by
explosive ordnance, aircraft fire or removal from site by other means."
Further, JCRC recommended that no further operations be planned to
recover Sgt. Frazier unless new information became available and that the
case be closed.
Over the years several reports have been received by US government
agencies pertaining to the location of remains that might relate to Sgt.
Frazier; but to date no positive correlation has been made. Likewise, no
remains have been recovered or identified as his.
There is no doubt Paul Frazier died in the loss of his Huey. However, by
JCRC's evaluation of his record there is a good possibility that his body
was removed from the wreckage by either local villagers or Communist
forces and buried.
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I DID THIS RUBBING OF PAULS NAME AT
THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WALL
NOVEMBER 11,1997
VETERANS DAY
Vietnam War: U.S. Military Casualties, 1956-1998
about Paul Reid Frazier
Name: Paul Reid Frazier
Birth Date: 11 Mar 1949
Death Date: 3 Sep 1968
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Race: Caucasian
Home City: Milwaukee
Home State: Wisconsin
Religion: Lutheran (also Missouri Synod)
Marital Status: Single (Spouse Not Listed)
SSN/Service #: 16890183
Citizen Status: U.S.
Death Date: 3 Sep 1968
Processed Date: Nov 1968
Casualty Country: Republic of Vietnam (South
Vietnam)
Casualty Type: Hostile - Killed
Casualty Reason: Aircraft Loss/Crash Not at
Sea
Casualty Air: Helicopter Air Casualty - Other
Aircrew
Body Status: Body Not Recovered
Service Branch: Department of the Army
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