September 17, 2010
Colorado, USA
POW/MIA
Recognition Day
POW/MIA Recognition Day honors the commitments and the sacrifices made by our nation's prisoners of war and those who are still missing in action. By custom, it is on the third Friday in September.
National POW/MIA Recognition Day is one of the six days specified by law on which the black POW/MIA flag shall be flown over federal facilities and cemeteries, post offices and military installations.
Fittingly... on this day in 1787 the Constitution was signed and once ratified, it gave America an enduring framework for religious liberty, economic opportunity, secure national independence, and a flourishing society of republican self-government - all in the name of a simple but radical idea of human liberty. -- Matthew Spalding
And it is this fundamental liberty for which all gave some and some gave all...
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