<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1z6qNB_0vmHWwr300" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1z6qNB_0vmHWwr300" width="1200" height="716" ></figure>September 27, 2024 - VFW Post 8904 and Auxiliary members gathered at the Shelby County Veterans Memorial September 20, 2024, in honor of National POW/MIA Recognition Day.Mike Wulf, Post Comannder, welcomed everyone to the program and VFW Post Chaplain Richard Lundie gave the opening prayer.“We salute the men and women who serve to keep America free and in doing so, sacrifice their own freedom, and to remember the families of the missing,” said Wulf. “We continue to hope and pray that they, their loved ones, will someday be accounted for.”<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1Ys0AS_0vmHWwr300" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1Ys0AS_0vmHWwr300" width="500" height="350" ></figure>Wulf stated, there are currently over 83,000 Americans listed as missing and unaccounted for going back to the Second World War. Shelby County, Texas has had 39 of her citizens held as prisoner of war, 35 from World War II and four from the Korean War. Three died in captivity, while others lived through a terrible ordeal that cannot be imagined and returned home. They have all now passed from this life.The names of those that were prisoners of war and those missing in action were then read aloud by members and other members of the community in attendance.<img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=05mW7I_0vmHWwr300" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=05mW7I_0vmHWwr300" width="434" height="500" ><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0QKTva_0vmHWwr300" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0QKTva_0vmHWwr300" width="333" height="500" >A memorial wreath was then placed on the Shelby County Veterans Memorial by Post One-Year Trustee Gene Hutto. Chaplain Lundie, Post Jr. Vice Derrick Roberts, and Commanders Wulf Roberts then replaced the POW/MIA flag that flys on the square.Taps was then played as presented by Gene Hutto.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1p7nfJ_0vmHWwr300" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1p7nfJ_0vmHWwr300" width="500" height="377" ></figure>Prisoners of War: Harlan F. Adams, World War II - German POWHaskell Beard, World War II - German POWHarold F. Beasley, World War II - Japanese POWSharkey Brown, Jr., World War II - Japanese POWThermon D. Brittain, Sr., World War II – Bataan Death March, Japanese POWFrank M. Butler, World War II - German POWOran J. Childs, World War II - Bataan Death March, Japanese POWBasil A. Coats, World War II - German POWSam Davis, Jr., World War II - German POWDr. Roy L. Emken, World War II - Bataan Death March, Japanese POWRay Emmons, World War II - German POW Newell Evans, World War II - German POWClifford Gary, World War II - German POWHilton Hooper, World War II - German POWCalvin R. Hutto, World War II - Japanese POWAudrey C. Jacobs, World War II - German POWJesse F. Kennedy, World War II - German POWJohnnie M. Lee, World War II, Japanese POW - Died in Prison CampDravis Massie, World War II - Japanese POWAustin W. Mayes, World War II - German POWPhillip E. Murphree, World War II - German POWJames H. Myers, World War II - Japanese POWR.B. Neal, World War II - German POWTruman B. Owens, World War II - German POWSherman S. Pickard, World War II - German POWGeorge O. Rivers, World War II - Bataan Death March, Died in Japanese Prison CampCharles D. Rogers, World War II - Japanese POWGeorge B. Stutts, Jr., World War II - German POWVernon B. Walters, World War II - Bataan Death March, Died in Japanese Prison CampHenry L. Wilburn, World War II - German POWHulon Williams, World War II - German POWR.L. Williams, World War II - German POWLevi A. Williford, World War II - German POW;Marshall (Tex) Windham, World War II - German POWJohn E. Woodfin, Sr., World War II - Bataan Death March, Japanese POW Hubert L. Langford, Korean War - North Korean POWPaul D. Lucas, Korean War, North Korean POWLeonard Scott, Korean War - North Korean POWBilly Lee Wescoat, Korean War - Chinese POWMissing in Action: John W. Temple, WWI - Missing July 19, 1918, FranceJohn C.B. Alford, World War II - Missing May 7, 1942, Pacific Theater Lloyd L. Andrews, World War II - Missing December 25, 1944, European TheaterCecil A. Armstreet, World War II - August 31, 1942, Atlantic OceanLee O. Brunson, World War II - Missing December 8, 1944, European TheaterJohn B. Byrn, World War II - Missing August 24, 1943, European TheaterPhilip H. Childs, World War II - Missing July 29, 1942, Pacific TheaterJames A. Cleveland, World War II - Missing September 7, 1944, Pacific TheaterLewis V. Dockens, World War II - Missing June 2, 1942, European TheaterReed Dominy, World War II - Missing April 15, 1944, European TheaterRoy V. Duncan, World War II - Missing April 16, 1945, Pacific TheaterHubert Haley, World War II - Missing May 14, 1942, European TheaterPershing H. Harvey, World War II - Missing October 24, 1944Walter B. Henry, World War II - Missing August 7, 1943, European TheaterCurtis Jolley, World War II - Missing October 24, 1944, Pacific TheaterWillie E. Lathon, World War II - Missing December 12, 1943, Pacific Theater; James A. McDaniel, World War II - Missing April 20, 1944, Pacific TheaterWoodrow W. Moro, World War II - Missing May 5, 1942, Gulf of Mexico Kenneth N. Nicholson, World War II - Missing October 27, 1942 Darwin Risinger, World War II - Missing September 5, 1945, Pacific TheaterJohn C. Scott, World War II - Missing June 19, 1944, Pacific TheaterChoron Smotherman, World War II - Missing November 27, 1943, European Theater Johnny F. Stack, World War II - Missing November 30, 1942, Pacific Theater Richard M. Wallace, World War II - Missing July 26, 1942, European TheaterRobert H. Wharton, World War II - Missing November 20, 1943, Pacific TheaterMarion B. Whiteside, Jr., World War II - Missing October 19, 1942Claude M. Wilkerson, World War II - Missing May 8, 1942, Pacific TheaterElgie P. Williams, World War II - Missing December 6, 1943, Pacific TheaterElmer E. Williams, World War II - Missing November 8, 1942, Pacific TheaterRay D. Williams, World War II - Missing July 11, 1944, European TheaterWillie E. Windham, Korean War - Missing August 12, 1950, Korea.</div></body>

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September 27, 2024 - VFW Post 8904 and Auxiliary members gathered at the Shelby County Veterans Memorial September 20, 2024, in honor of National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Mike Wulf, Post Comannder, welcomed everyone to the program and VFW Post Chaplain Richard Lundie gave the opening prayer. “We salute the men...