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On May 10, 2009 5pm central
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Jeff Doc Dentice will be on
the show talking about
the 12th annual Wisconsin POW-MIA
Balloon Launch!
2009
12th Annual POW-MIA Balloon
Launch
Bunker/DMZ
in Rochester, Wisconsin.
(Hwy 36-Hwy 20) on Memorial
Day.
The info is on the flyer below..
Please share with everyone.......
EVERYONE IS WELCOME
2009
Wisconsin National POW-MIA Balloon Launch
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CLICK ON THE PICTURE ABOVE TO VIEW THE LAUNCH
EVENT
THE 11TH ANNUALWISCONSIN
2008 POW-MIA LAUNCH TOOK PLACE AT THE
Bunker/DMZ
2008
"POW-MIA
Balloon Launch"
Doc Dentice & Crew
Sponsor's
Images
On Rock
Bunker/DMZ
VFW
Post 8343
Welder
Supply Company-Pete Mueller
Bunker/DMZ
1st Annual
"National
Moment of Remembrance Ride"
Motorcycle
Ride
Riders
meet at the Bunker
Free
registration 9-10am
Riders
leave Bunker at 10:15am
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LARGEST
& LONGEST RUNNING
POW-MIA
BALLOON LAUNCH
IN
THE COUNTRY
Balloon Launch Story & Pictures
Doc & the Crew's Last &
Final Launch!
WISCONSIN
LAUNCH 2007 PICTURES
Wisconsin
POW-MIA Launch Video
Launch
Video-Missing Man Table Ceremony
Wisconsin's
10th
Anniversary
Balloon
Launch Story & Pictures
10th Anniversary
Wisconsin National Pow-Mia Balloon
Launch
Milwaukee,Wisconsin
"Veterans Park at the lakefront"
"MEMORIAL DAY"
May 28, 2007
Did You
Find a POW-MIA Balloon?
Sign the
Guesbook and let us know.
2007 GuestBook
Sign
Launch Guestbook
View
Launch Guestbook
2006 GuestBook
Sign
Launch Guestbook
View
Launch Guestbook
2007
Wisconsin
POW-MIA
Balloon
Launch Pictures & Story
Region 4 Director Dennis Williams presented a
check for the POW-MIA Wisconsin Launch
to Jeff Doc Dentice(Wisconsin Launch Founder-Coordinator)
and Julie Spangler on behalf of
"The United Auto Workers of America"
The "UAW" was the major Sponsor
of the 10th Anniversary Launch.
Left to Right
Doc-Dennis Williams-Julie Spangler
Wally Kubicki(region 4 Vets Chair-Dennis Walker
Region 4 Vets Coordinator
WMIL FM-106-Country Radio
Karen-Scott-Radar
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Live Broadcast for the Todd Post-92nd
Beloit Road-Milwaukee
Wisconsin POW-MIA Launch airing
live between 6:30-7am Central Time
Memorial Day
Doc will talk about the POW-MIA
Launch
Dear Doc,
A friend of mine from MI sent me your website
in reference to WI's POW/MIA Balloon Launching.
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 2006 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 2007 events.
Having graduated from high school in '68,
Vietnam was MY war and those who served, those who came home and especially
those who didn't will always have a special place
in my heart!
I want to thank you and all of your comrades for your service! God Bless you one and all!
Judy Cherbonneau
Hillsboro, NH
May 19, 2007
ARMED FORCES DAY
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
and the Nation! Join him and Wisconsin Memorial
Day 2007 for the next POW/MIA Balloon Launch!
This site is owned by JEFF DOC DENTICE |
Jeff
Doc Dentice
25,000 Balloons
10th
Anniversary
Wisconsin
POW-MIA
Balloon Launch X
Largest
and Longest running Launch in the Nation
Memorial
Day 2007
May 28
POW-MIA
Remembrance Ceremony-
Missing
Man Table & Honors Ceremony-
Missing
Man Formation-
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2007
NATIONAL
POW/MIA BALLOON LAUNCH
SPONSORS
& VOLUNTEERS
_________________________________________________
Doc(Vet) &
Cindy Dentice & Jenna & Matthew
Julie Spangler(Secretary/Treasurer/Communications
Joseph Campbell(Vet)
(Event MC) Helium supply
Judith Singer
(POW-MIA Table-Wreath Presentation)
Scott Fitzgerald/Don
Kordus(Vet)(Launch Chute-Supplies Coord's)
Rory Wettstein(Vet)(Coachman
Productions)Video
Nancy Aycock(Vet)&
Mark(Launch Photos)Vets Support
"North American
Trojan Flight"
Our 2007 POW-MIA
Balloon Launch Flyover
POW-MIA 10TH ANNIVERSARY
KITE
THANKS MARY LANGO
FOR MAKING IT HAPPEN
1ST EVER POW-MIA
REMEMBRANCE KITE MADE
ON BEHALF OF
HER BROTHERS PETE & MIKE
THE LANGO SISTERS
WERE AT THE LAUNCH
THANKS BRIAN
FOR A FANTASTIC CREATION
Region
4 UAW Veterans
Wisconsin
Bingo (Our POW-MIA Balloons since day 1)
Bill
Fitzsimmons-2007 Balloon Launch Graphics
Welders
Supply Company- Big Bend (Helium) Peter Mueller
Machinery
& Welder Corp.-West Allis (Helium) Joe Campbell
Waste
Management-Dennis Lindquist
WMIL
FM-106 Country Radio (Scott & Karen)
WISN
TV 12 For Fantastic Launch-News Coverage
Helen
& Little Helen Fojut
Cindys
good friend Kitty Ketchum(USMC Vet)
Dick
Plucker & Mr. Lewis(Decorated Vet)
Bill
Siercks(Tank) & Ma & Family
Dick
& Louise Turzinski
Julies
friend "RED"
Tom
Lober & Ralph
Earl
Wood(POW-MIA HandOuts)Natl Alliance of Famlies
Harry
& Donna & Legion Riders from Indiana
Dan/Dee
& Ma from Indiana
Tony
Lombardo & Wayne Cisewski(Miller Brewery)
Tom
Wroblewski & Chris
Glen
Fieber(Our Cook)Sollys Grille
Dave
Drent(War Memorial Director)
Milwaukee
County Exec Scott Walker
Dave
Hummel & Billy Sue-Gold Star Mothers Song
Ron
Healy-Iowa
Don
Matthews POW-MIA Song
Aaron
Flores UAW Vet Illinois
Frank
Mueller, President of the Vietnam Veterans Chapter in Newberg.Wi.
Our
DJ on Memorial Day for the launch.
United
Auto Workers Of America
Senator
Herb Kohl
George
and Victoria Griffin
American
Legion Essman-Schroeder Post 20
U.A.W.
Local 6
U.A.W.
Local 9
U.A.W.
Local 95
U.A.W.
Local 1268
U.A.W.
Local 588
Pete
Hansen (Green Bay)
Wisconsin
Vietnam Vets Chapter One
VFW
Post 8343-The Bunker-Rochester
Milwaukee
County Veterans Board of Directors
Wisconsin
Rolling Thunder Chapter One
VFW
Post 8343-The Bunker
Don-Jeanne
Kordus & Son & George & Lori
Sons
Of The American Legion-Portage
Sneesby's
Denoon Saloon
VVA
Chapter 224-Green Bay
VVA
Chapter 324-Milwaukee
Janesville
Business'
Sign-A-Rama
Fairview
Florist
Flying
High Flag Store
Duane
Drewicz
Ed
Beauchamp-Air America Bayside
Sherpers
Supply
Papas
Bakery Inc.
Solly's
Grille
Jody/Kevin-PicknSave
Waterford Wisconsin
The
Bunker-DMZ
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Advocacy & Intelligence Index for POW-MIAs, Inc
Lynn
O'Shea's Site - A MUST SEE site.
National Alliance
of POW / MIA Families
Jeff Doc
Dentice
(Founder)
2007 LAUNCH
COORDINATOR
_JJEFF
DOC DENTICE
Doc's
Email
How
do I organize a POW/MIA Balloon Launch
or Email Doc for all the Information!
Please view the updated pictures on Docs launch site:
May 1,
2007
Hi Doc, and thanks so much for sending the greetings,
as well as the very impressive visual and animated announcement.
We'll be delighted to advertise the 9th
Annual Launch, plus an announcement and the logo for the event to lead
others to recognize its importance.
Please convey to the entire Launch Crew, our strong
support for their efforts to call attention to the need for answers,
the principles of accounting for those who serve
our country - past, present and future - and the need to signal those now
serving our strong support for them.
Very best wishes,
Ann Mills Griffiths
Executive Director
National League of POW/MIA Families
1005 North Glebe Road, Suite 170
Arlington, VA 22201
MILWAUKEE
JOURNAL-SENTINEL NEWSPAPER
Largest
Launch ever held in the US
THANKS
TO THE JOURNAL-SENTINEL FOR THIS FANTASTIC PHOTO
Special Thanks to Aaron Tippon for
"The Stars & Stripes" song now playing!
Dont think he knew it would become
a POW-MIA Tribute song.
"Milwaukee's Lakefront"
War Memorial (North side)
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
_JJEFF
DOC DENTICE
Doc's
Email
25,000POW-MIA
Balloons
Largest
ever attempted in the USA
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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THANK
YOU FROM DOC
JEFF DOC
DENTICE
WISCONSIN
POW-MIA LAUNCH FOUNDER SAYS
"LARGEST
LAUNCH IN THE NATION IS FANTASTIC SUCCESS"
TO ALL
OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN A PART OF THIS
FANTASTIC
AND WONDERFUL ENDEAVOR!
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
Docs
Email
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2007 LAUNCH
PICTURES-STORY
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Hi
Jeff Doc Dentice!
From
Jen & the POW-MIA Freedom Fighters
The
POW-MIA National Balloon Launch Story
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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 Milwaukee, Wisconsin!
With you and your family and all
your friends help and even Milwaukee itself,
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 Doc!
Glad your moving back to Wisconsin
in 2006
The Veterans community for sure
has missed your dedication & involvement
Its only fitting that you Coordinate
the 10th Anniversary Launch in 2007
God Bless!
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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 project going.
I will post the info about your launch on the
message board.
Jen Bauer
http://www.powmiaff.org
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 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.
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 2003:
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!
Doc
Thanks so much for the awareness
you bring to our eff
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
MILWAUKEE
LAUNCH
MESSAGE
BOARD
THEY FOUGHT FOR OUR FREEDOM
THEY HAVE NEVER COME HOME
JOIN US IN REMEMBERING THEM
THIS MEMORIAL DAY
& POW/MIA RECOGNITION DAY.
How
do I organize a POW/MIA Balloon Launch
America's POW/MIAs
| WWI |
|
Total
POW/MIA 7,323
Still
Missing and Unaccounted For 3,350 (PFOD)
|
| WWII |
|
Total
POW/MIA 194,897
Still
Missing and Unaccounted For 78,750 (PFOD)
|
| Cold War |
|
Total
POW/MIA 124
Still
Missing and Unaccounted For 124 (PFOD)
|
| Korea |
|
Total
POW/MIA 12,654
Still
Missing and Unaccounted For 8,215 (PFOD)
|
| Southeast Asia |
|
Total
POW/MIA 2,596
Still
Missing and Unaccounted For 2,005 (PFOD)
|
| Persian Gulf War |
|
Missing Captured 1 KIA/BNR 12 |
| Somalia |
| KIA/BNR 1 |
| Operation Iraqi Freedom |
|
Missing
Captured 1
MIA's
1
|
ALL POW/MIAs (Prior to July 13, 2003) are now noted as PFOD except Gulf War Michael Speicher
PFOD (Presumptive Finding of Death)
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This POW/MIA
Ring site |
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Doc's Email
Fallen
Warriors Project
For All Fallen Soldiers From All
Wars
Four Lakes Detachment of the Marine Corps
League in Madison, WI.
Help them by purchasing one for your organization.
Each Org. can honor their hometown area Fallen
Hero's by displaying this
Tribute and placing their names on a Special
brass plate that come with the Statuette.
This tribute is available for any State.
Honor Family members from all Wars
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