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Jeff "Doc" Dentice has
put together the largest & longest running
POW/MIA Balloon Launch
in POW/MIA Freedom Fighter's history and the Nation!
Join him and the Crew
on Memorial Day 2013 for his 16th & final Wisconsin POW/MIA Balloon
Launch!
Thank You Doc For All
You Do For Our POW/MIA
Jen - POW/MIA Freedom
Fighter's
Jeff Doc
Dentice
Dear Doc
Dentice
Please
accept our sincere appreciation for your many years of dedicated effort
to publicize the
need
for our Nation to achieve the fullest possible accounting for US personnel
missing from the
Vietnam
War and wars and conflicts further past. The fact that we've collective
been able to obtain
answers
on 936 of our men since the end of the Vietnam War is due in large
part to the support and
commitment
of our veterans, certainly including those like you who put their time,
money and talent
into
such meaningful projects. God Bless you on your 16th and final balloon
launch.
We are
deeply grateful to you for your tireless effort for our POW/MIAS.
Best
wishes,
Ann Mills-Griffiths
Chairman
of the Board
National
League of POW/MIA Families
Memorial
Day 2013
POW-MIA
NATIONAL RECOGNITION DAY POSTERS
DOC HAS THE PAST 25 YEARS DISPLAYED
POW-MIA EXHIBIT NOW OPEN
WAR MEMORIAL CENTER
750 N Lincoln Memorial Dr, Milwaukee,
WI
PARKING NORTH SIDE OF THE WAR
MEMORIAL CENTER
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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10th Anniversary
Wisconsin
POW-MIA Balloon Launch
Wisconsin
1998-2013
Freedom
Fighters
Last
& Final National POW/MIA Balloon Launch
16
Years - Largest Launch In The U.S.A. & 12 other countries
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 AT WOODS NATL. VETS CEMETERY
THE LAUNCH OF RED/WHITE/BLUE BALLOONS IN WIND LAKE, WI. IN 2014, WAS JUST A LOCAL EVENT.
Doc Gives His Final Salute At His 16th and
last POW-MIA Balloon Launch.
Was A True Honor To Keep America Remembering
Our Prisoners Of War/Missing In Action
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Jeff Doc Dentice
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Wisconsin
Vietnam POW/MIA 40 Tribute By Jeff Doc Dentice
Docs daughter Caleigh Dentice(center) and friends
from the Muskego HS choir sing the
National Anthem at the Wisconsin POW/MIA Balloon
Launch.
2013 Wreath Presenters
Doc with the Combat Vets Motorcycle Association
Chapter 45/1
Thanks Everyone For Being There & presenting
your POW/MIA wreath.
Veterans Of America MC forms Honor Line and
presents POW/MIA wreath
Thanks Voamc - Much Appreciated
Doc Doing The Wreath Presentations
National
Alliance Of Families
For the
Return of America's Missing Servicemen
Thanks to
my good friend Lynn O'Shea for all your support.
POW-MIA
Balloons Found
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NEW YORK
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Alliance Of Families
For the
Return of America's Missing Servicemen
America's POW/MIA
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TO: JEFF " DOC" DENTICE
Wisconsin POW/MIA National Balloon
Launch Founder/Coordinator
I have a story to share with
You.
It's ABSOLUTLY true because
I just lived it!
This past Memorial Day 5/28/2012
I attended a POW-MIA Balloon Launch.
I had never heard about this
"annual" event taking place in Wind Lake WI only 15 miles from my home;
and it was now
in its 15 year of remembrance,
celebration & dedication to our Military and the true meaning of Memorial
Day. So me, my
husband Jim, our youngest son
Dean my granddaughters Ellie 7, Sadie 3 & my sister Debbie said lets
go see what it's all about!
We saw an incredible variety
of mankind, all ages assembled for only one reason and that was to honor
our military, the fallen, the
missing and the troops serving
today and in the past. I have to say that this wonderful event encompassed
them all so beautifully in
a ceremony of utmost respect
& dignity. I was pleasantly surprised, touched and thankful to have
been able to thank so many vets!
At the end of the ceremony a
bag pipe played, the color guard gave a 21 gun salute & taps were blown,
then
they released 15,000 black POW/MIA
balloons…all I can say is wow…an overwhelming WOW!
About 45 minutes after we left
Wind Lake my daughter Denise called me on my cell phone.
She was so excited about what
just took place and needed to share it…now this is were the story gets
"goose bump special"…now
remember Denise's birth father & my first husband was Lieutenant Richard
Burbach who
died in Vietnam 2/7/1969; Also
be aware at this point, that Denise did not know about the balloon launch
in Wind Lake, nor did
she know I had gone to it, because
I never told her about it mainly because I had no ides what it was all
about. I also knew she was
going to the cemetery to make
sure her father's grave had a flag on it which she does every year and
then she was going to help
her friend Sam open his pool
at his home in Hales Corners, 11 miles and a million trees & wires
away from Wind Lake.
Denise was setting the table/getting
ready to bring food outside when she saw what she thought was a black ball
floating in
the pool, she went over and
picked it out of the pool and was literally blown away to find it was a
balloon marked POW-MIA launch Wind Lake WI!
Now a lot of you may dismiss
this as an event of pure coincidence but we know for that balloon to drop
into Sam's pool & for
Denise to be there then find
it on Memorial Day, was one of those moments of being "TOUCHED BY THE ANGELS
IN UNIFORM"
or more beautifully put as her
brother Darren said to her…"what an awesome way for your father to say
hi"!
This is my special story and
I hope you enjoyed me sharing it with you…it brought all of us joy, hope
it brought you some as well!
Much love to you Jeff Doc Dentice,
and may you find many "goose bump special moments" in your life.
Sandy Burbach Wilber & Denise
Dear Jeff,
Having been
a young military wife & mother & subsequently a widow during the
Vietnam War was challenging to
say the least,
but not as tough as what you young men went through and witnessed with
your entire beings, and then having to return to this ungrateful nation…
sometimes it
hurts so much to remember how disgusting they treated you & your brothers
back then!
I truly want
to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your service to our Country
while actively serving and now by commemorating
so beautifully
for all those so deserving, past & present. Because of you and your
counterparts the selfless brave of today's military are
welcomed home
with the honor & glory they so deserve; honestly I am humbled by your
astonishing dedication and I applaud you!
Looking forward
to the next balloon launch & will be checking out your Christmas event.
God Bless you
& may the angels continue to embrace you in your future endeavors!
Respectfully,
Sandy Burbach Wilber
Dear Doc,
WI's POW/MIA Balloon Launch
What a beautiful site this is!
I haven't even come close to viewing it in it's
entirety, but did view the pictures from the 2010 Balloon preparation and
launch.
Tears (are still) streaming down my cheeks as
I view them.
God Bless you in all your endeavors and especially
with the coming 2011 event.
I want to thank you for your service!
God Bless!
Judy Cherbonneau
Hillsboro, NH
May 2011
10th Anniversary & last POW-MIA Balloon
Launch on Milwaukee's lakefront - 2007
25,000 black balloons were released - largest
ever in the USA
Hi
Jeff Doc Dentice!
From
Jen & the POW-MIA Freedom Fighters
Jeff "Doc" Dentice has put together the longest
running POW/MIA Balloon Launch in POW/MIA Freedom Fighter's history!
Join him for the 15th Anniversary Wisconsin POW/MIA
National Balloon Launch on Memorial Day 2012!
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This was back in the
early days of the POW/MIA Freedom Fighters and we were trying to come up
with any kind of idea to
get folks inspired
and keep the flame under the issue. I had heard about a school that
did a balloon launch in memory of Vets and thought we
could do one similar
for POW/MIA's. That first year, we got a lot of flak from the
enviromentalist poo-pooing the idea saying the balloons
would hurt the environment
and that it killed the sea life and any wild life that ate the balloons
that landed. Some people wanted to let
ff butterflies, others
doves, but we felt it just wouldn't send the kind of message we needed
to send for our POW/MIA's.
We were running a large
POW/MIA mailing list at that time with another organization and discussing
all this, when Col. Guy wrote me privately,
angrier than heck.
I hadn't known he was gravely ill at this point, but was hearing the murmurs
of this doctor's appt and that. Anyway, he told me,
"To hell with those
idiot environmentalists that care more about the environment than getting
our guys home. We need to shake folks up!" He had
told me that he felt
certain there was a chance that if just 1 (one) balloon could get to a
living POW and give them hope that they were not forgotten and
we were doing something
about it, then anything we could do to make that happen would be worth
it. It was like, this was his last big chance to be a
part of something that
he believed in 100% that could make a difference. "We're not
going to leave them behind, Jen. We're going to let them know
we are doing something.
Don't listen to idiots. Do it. Do it for all of them that want
to come home. Do it for all the families still waiting for answers."
And I promised him
I would. And we did.
We did research and
found out that with the proper kind of balloon we could keep the environmentalists
happy
as these balloons disintergrate
at the same rate as a leaf and thus, are biodegradable and not bad for
the environment.
We encouraged putting
names of POW/MIA's, or links
to info about them
on paper in the balloons, or on the balloons, anything to inform the public
that men and women are still waiting to come home
and families are still
waiting for answers. We encouraged folks to let us know when they found
them. Some balloons traveled pretty darn far -
one from New Mexico
was found in Maine! We sent out press releases, did radio talk shows.
Had some t.v. coverage.
Our first few years
were huge successes. All over the world POW/MIA Freedom Fighters
Balloon Launches were held.
But as you know, without
committed people staying committed, some of the launches began falling
by the wayside.
However,
it's a whole other story for Wisconsin!
With you and your family
and all your friends help,
your launches have
most definately been our greatest success story.
"Doc", you stayed stong!
You hung in there.
You put together a
great team, got the businesses involved, made it a citywide event.
It was wonderful!
You Launch Crew has continued to keep the flame burning,
continue to inspire,
continue to remind us all that
we have a job to do
and it isn't done until all our men and women are home.
When one thinks of
the POW/MIA Freedom Fighters Balloon Launch, they think of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
because you "Doc" made it
happen and put the
event in the chronicles of history!
Thank you for all you do and continue to do Jeff Doc Dentice!
God Bless! Jen & the Freedom Fighters
Wisconsin
10th Anniversary
POW-MIA
Launch Video
WISCONSIN
POW-MIA LAUNCH 10th Anniversary PICTURES
LAST
EVER LAUNCH AT ON MILWAUKEE'S LAKEFRONT
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"And The Waiting Goes On"
Written By James Purtell-VietnamVet-Wisconsin
Sung By Mark Brinkman-Wisconsin
This Poster & Song
Contact: James
Purtell
WHEN ONE AMERICAN IS NOT
WORTH
THE EFFORT TO BE FOUND,
WE AS AMERICANS HAVE LOST!
YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN
HONOR AND SACRIFICE
America, look into your
heart and ask yourself why.
Why do you turn your back
on this "great" nation's lost warriors?
How do you think this
nation became so great?
They gave to you, what
they no longer have, FREEDOM!
How can you continue to
ignore them, year after year?
They are your brothers,
who have too long been left alone and forgotten!
So, look into YOUR heart,
and ask yourself, WHY?
If that were you, what
would you want your country to do?
Balloon Launch Story & Pictures
Doc & the Crew's Last &
Final Launch!
WISCONSIN
LAUNCH 2007 PICTURES
Launch
Video-Missing Man Table Ceremony
10th
Anniversary
Wisconsin
Balloon
Launch Pictures & Story
This site is owned by JEFF DOC DENTICE |
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Remembrance Ceremony-
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We encourage
you to place Doc's link on your webpages, in your e-mails,
everywhere,
to educate others
that
the POW/MIA issue is still very much alive.
http://www.war-veterans.org/Wlaunch.htm
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ONE EX-POW FROM VIETNAM
(COL.TED
GUY) HAD
A DREAM AND I AM GRATEFUL
TO HAVE BEEN
ABLE TO MAKE IT A REALITY
FOR HIM.
Jeff
"Doc" Dentice
I HAVE
BEEN BLESSED WITH A GREAT CREW
HERE
IN WISCONSIN, WHO HAVE COME FROM
MANY
STATES TO HELP.
Jeff
"Doc" Dentice
(Founder)
Wisconsin POW-MIA Balloon Launch
Coordinator
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POW-MIA FREEDOM FIGHTERS
The Milwaukee, Wisconsin POW/MIA Balloon Launch
was exactly what
Col. Ted Guy, former (POW-MIA) had in mind when
he wanted this project done.
He is gone now, but you have made his dream become
a reality.
It gives me goosebumps looking at the pictures
and thinking of what these wonderful people have
accomplished in honor of our POW/MIA's!
Thank you "Doc" and Your Milwaukee
Crew!
Jen
Hi Doc,
Thank you for all your hard work and dedication
and keeping this event going.
To: Jeff Doc Dentice
Dear Doc,
Ex-POW Col. Ted Guy,
back in 1998 came up with the
idea of getting communities to do a POW/MIA Balloon
Launch,
With the help of 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 "Doc" & Your Crew,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
our Nations Largest Launch, reaching folks
that never knew about the issue.
This award is not given lightly. In fact, as a
member of the
POW/MIA Freedom Fighters
you and your crew, are our very
First Recipients.
"FREEDOM IS NOT FREE"
THIS EAGLE WILL NEVER FLY FREE
UNTIL
ALL OUR POW-MIAS ARE ARE
BACK HOME!
1st ever Wisconsin POW-MIA Balloon launch
in 1988 at Wood National VA Cemetery
Doc
Thanks so much for the awareness
you bring to our effort
It is greatly appreciated by those
of us still working hard for answers.
Please give my very best wishes
to your POW-MIA Launch Crew
Sincerely,
Ann Mills Griffiths
Executive Director
National League of POW/MIA Families
THEY FOUGHT FOR OUR FREEDOM
THEY HAVE NEVER COME HOME
JOIN US IN REMEMBERING THEM
THIS MEMORIAL DAY
& POW/MIA RECOGNITION DAY.
REMEMBER
3rd Friday in September is National POW/MIA
Recognition Day.
Every US Post Office in the country is required,
by law, to fly/post our POW/MIA flag.
If it's not up, make sure they are aware of
the law that requires it be posted six days a year:
Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, Flag Day,
Independence Day, National POW/MIA Recognition Day and Veterans Day.
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