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Deputy Pentagon chaplain . 

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Bye . 

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Taking the reviewing stand are General 

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Charles Q Brown Jr , the chairman of 

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the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the host , 

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the 28th Secretary of Defense , the 

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Honorable Lloyd J Austin the third . 

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what ? Oh , 

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co right . Cut , 

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ladies and gentlemen , chaplain bird . 

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Let us pray . Lord 

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God . I thank you on this morning for 

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your presence with us as we gather to 

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continue to honor those who became 

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prisoners of war and missing in action 

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as they faithfully answered the call to 

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serve the nation . We gather because we 

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acknowledge the grief and loss and the 

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sacrifice of their loved ones who have 

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waited for them to come home . We 

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gather because we believe that the 

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continuing effort to bring our pow and 

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ma service members home is one way to 

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honor them . It is our prayer that it 

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also brings some measure of comfort to 

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those families . I pray your blessing 

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on these families and ask that you 

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continue to give wisdom and favor to 

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those dedicated to this mission until 

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they are all home in your name ? I pray . 

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Amen . 

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Please be seated . 

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Oh , do that do , 

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ladies and gentlemen , General Charles 

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Q Brown Jr , the chairman of the Joint 

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Chiefs of Staff . 

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Mm In 1965 

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navy Captain James Stockdale punched 

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out of his aircraft over Vietnam for 

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the next 7.5 years . She created a 

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system of communicating with his fellow 

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captured Americans , maintaining 

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prisoner morale and organizing 

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resistance against ruthless torture . 

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Looking back on his captivity , he said , 

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I never lost faith in the end of the 

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story . I never doubted . Not only that 

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I would get out , but also I would 

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prevail in the end and turn the 

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experience into the defining event of 

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my life . We are here today to maintain 

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our faith and the end of the story to 

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fulfill our nation's sacred duty of 

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honoring our prisoners of war and to 

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never stop searching for those still 

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missing . I want to thank Secretary 

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Austin and the defense Powmi , a 

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accounting agency for inviting me here . 

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Today . I had the honor of 

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participating in the Powmi , a poster 

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unveiling ceremony . This past June 

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there . I met former prisoner of war 

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Colonel Mike Braselton and his wife 

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Gloria . They're here today alongside 

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their daughters , Adriana and Alison 

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and their son in law , John Mike 

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ejected over Vietnam was held prisoner 

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for 2402 days . Over 

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6.5 years . Robert shoemaker 

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is is here today as well . 

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Shoemaker also ejected from his plane 

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over Vietnam spending eight years as a 

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prisoner of war . According to the term 

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Hanoi Hilton as a nickname of their 

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prison in June . I also met Chad 

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Lindell whose great uncle went missing 

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when the beef 24 he was piloting 

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crashed after being hit by any aircraft 

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fire . In 1944 Chad's 

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joined today by his wife Christine and 

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Bill and Robin Bonnell . Bill's great 

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uncle Corporal author Barry was lost 

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during the Korean War and is still 

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unaccounted for . Thank you all for 

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returning today . And thank you to the 

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to the members of many more than 30 

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families of missing who could attend . 

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I also want to thank the the military 

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service and that service organizations 

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here today . Thank you for your 

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continued support of our military 

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members and their families throughout 

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the history of our nation . Service 

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members have answered the call to 

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defend liberty and wars fought on 

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distant shores . Battles waged on 

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foreign soil . These heroes have faced 

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trials . Many of us could scarcely 

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imagine some were captured by enemy 

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forces and held in horrific conditions . 

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Their legacy lives on in the hearts of 

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their families , their fellow service 

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members and in the very fabric of our 

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nation . As we honor the missing . 

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You must also honor their families , 

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the ones who waited often for years for 

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their loved ones return and those that 

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still wait is also about them . 

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About the empty chair at the dinner 

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table about the family events not 

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attended , about the memories that 

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remain and the prayers that never fade . 

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The families of our prisoners of war 

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and our missing embody the heart and 

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soul of our nation , the work of the 

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defense pow Mia accounting agency 

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fulfills the solemn vow we owe these 

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families and the American people using 

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new technology to recover and identify 

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the remains of returning service 

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members home to their families like 

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segregated 92nd infancy division . 

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Italy when his tank was struck by enemy 

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fire . His remains were identified 79 

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years later , he was buried in his 

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native Maryland . Earlier this month . 

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Since their founding in 1973 the 

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defense Powmi , a accounting agency has 

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accounted for over 600 Americans killed 

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in World War . I I 1000 killed in 

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Vietnam and just last week they counted 

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for the 700 th missing service member 

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of the Korean War . As long as there 

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are families answers , we will continue 

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the search to bring them home . As long 

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as there's one service number accounted 

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for . We will continue our efforts to 

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find the end of their story . 

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Stockdale , as he said in a prison cell , 

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thousands of miles from home had faith 

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in the end of his story . Today , we 

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commemorate the stories of our prison 

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of war . When we vow to our missing , 

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we will remain resolute to bring them 

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home at this time . It is 

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my honor to introduce a soldier , 

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a statesman and a steadfast advocate 

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for our military and their families . 

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Ladies and gentlemen , please join me 

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in welcoming the Secretary of Defense 

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Lloyd J Austin the third . 

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Well , good morning , everyone and 

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General Brown , thanks for that kind 

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introduction and thanks for your 

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leadership . I'd like to welcome 

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leaders from across the department 

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including Kelly mckegg , the Director 

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of the Defense Powmi , a accounting 

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agency . It is indeed a privilege to be 

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here with all of you 

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today . We reaffirm our shared 

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commitment to bring all of our people 

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home each and every one 

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and every year . On the third Friday in 

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September , we gather on 

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National Powmi a recognition day , 

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but we carry our duty to them 

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every day 

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to fight , to free those captive , to 

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commemorate those who came back home , 

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to search for and recover those still 

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missing and to do right 

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and to do right by our po and mi A 

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families . As the 

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chairman said , we are honored to be 

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joined today by former prisoners of war 

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including air force , Colonel Mike 

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Braselton , who endured more than six 

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years in captivity in Vietnam 

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in Rear Admiral Robert Shoemaker , who 

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was held captive for eight years . 

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Colonel Braselton , Rear Admiral 

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Shoemaker , your bravery 

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and your sacrifice , inspire us all . 

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me in a round of applause for these 

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I'd also like to recognize Colonel 

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Brazelton's family as well as the loved 

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ones of those who are still missing in 

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action in the face of loss and 

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uncertainty and anguish . You have 

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shown incredible resilience and resolve 

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and we strive to live up to your 

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example . So thanks for being here 

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and to all the military service 

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organizations and veteran service 

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organizations . Thanks for your support 

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and your partnership . You know , I 

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spent a brief 41 years in the army 

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and the soldier's creed says that I 

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will never leave a fallen comrade . 

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We lived that value and we 

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still do . We bring our troops home 

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no matter what . And so in my first 

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months as Secretary of Defense , I made 

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it a priority to visit AD P A lab 

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in Hawaii , I saw firsthand 

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the astounding skill and care that DPA 

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A puts into finding and identify , 

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identifying our missing personnel 

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to try to provide loved ones with 

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answers . DPDP A brings together 

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quite a team , researchers and 

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anthropologists , archaeologists and 

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forensic specialists , medics and 

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interpreters and experts in 

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explosive ordinance disposal . It is 

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hard work both physically and 

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emotionally and it's sometimes very 

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dangerous . But for DP A , 

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it's a labor of love and it is a 

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sacred calling and you can see the 

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results as the chairman said over the 

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past year , DP A has identified 

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111 missing personnel from World War 

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and four from the Vietnam war . Now , 

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that is quite a feat . So let's give VP 

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DPA A works closely with some 46 

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international allies and partners and 

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we rely on their cooper operation for 

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and assistance . And we're honored to 

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have ambassadors and defense attache 

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who represent some of these countries 

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with us today , including Ambassador 

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Marva from Ukraine . Again , thanks to 

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all of you for being here . Each 

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identification is a sum of tireless 

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diplomacy , planning , field 

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work and painstaking analysis back in 

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the lab . And each identification 

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represents America's ironclad 

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commitment to bring our missing home 

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no matter how far away they are in 

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space or time . 

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1972 Captain Ralph 

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Chipman and Captain Ron Forrester of 

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the Marine Corps were flying their A 

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six intruder on a night time mission 

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over North Vietnam . And 

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sadly , they never came back 

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in 2021 . Captain David Kim of DPA 

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A led a recovery mission at the crash 

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site . His team worked in austere 

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conditions and stifling humidity 

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and he made a point of asking his team 

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why they were there and his teammates 

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declared Chipman and 

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forester and they answered with 

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that every time that he asked it was 

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the names of the aviators and the names 

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of their families . And after three 

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missions across three years , DPA A 

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located repatriated and 

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identified these two heroes . 

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Captain Kim called contributing to this 

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mission . One of his most humbling 

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experiences in his career . 

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Captain Forrester's daughter , karate 

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was two when her father deployed to 

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Southeast Asia . And last year she met 

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Captain Kim and they bonded 

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immediately and she invited him to 

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attend her father's funeral . And so 

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next month , Captain Forrester's family , 

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alongside the man who helped find him 

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will lay him to rest at Arlington 

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National Cemetery . 

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Today , we also pay tribute to our 

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prisoners of war . Many returned 

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with honor after long ordeals for them 

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and their loved ones but others 

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lost their lives in captivity . 

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Today , I'm also thinking of army 

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technician , fifth grade Clifford 

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Strickland who fought in world war . I 

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I he endured the Bataan death march 

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and he and more than 2500 other pows 

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died in a prison camp in the 

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Philippines like many other Americans , 

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he was buried in an unmarked grave in 

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the camps cemetery . And after the 

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war , he was laid to rest as an 

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unknown 

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in the Manila American cemetery . 

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Yeah . 

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Yet as the years advanced , so did DNA 

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analysis in 2020 3d 

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P A identified Clifford Strickland 

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in this summer , 82 years after he died 

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in a distant prison camp , he was 

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finally laid to rest near his parents 

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in Florence , Colorado . 

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You know , 27 years ago , the late 

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Senator and naval Academy graduate John 

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mccain spoke at this ceremony . 

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Senator mccain had endured six awful 

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years as a pow in Vietnam 

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and he called on all Americans to 

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remember the heroes whose company we 

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were once blessed with and whose sense 

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of duty was unequal and 

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whose love of home and family cost them 

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the lives they longed to return to . 

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So let us remember those heroes and 

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let us show that our dedication to this 

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mission spans generations . 

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I'm very pleased that we're joined 

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today by Naval Academy midshipman . 

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I'm very pleased that we're joined 

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today by Naval Academy midshipman who 

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spent part of their summer in Vietnam 

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looking for the remains of our missing 

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service members . Let's give them a 

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hand 

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and we vow to keep working , to keep 

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searching and to keep the faith , 

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you know , from my office , I look out 

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into this parade ground 

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and every day I see the American flag 

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and the Powmi a flag 

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and that flag's motto is a rallying cry , 

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not only for everyone who works at the 

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Pentagon , but also wherever it 

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flies across the country . And it 

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says you are not forgotten , 

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not here , never here 

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that flag flies for all who have been 

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found and for all who are still missing 

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and for all the families who suffer and 

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mourn and wait , you have 

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endured terrible uncertainty 

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and lived with terrible absence and 

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suffered terrible grief . 

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We are humbled by your strength and we 

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are inspired by your resilience . 

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We are proud to stand with you . We are 

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proud to work with you because we will 

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never give up . We will never lose 

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hope and we will always honor the 

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sacrifice and service of your loved 

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ones . May God 

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bless you . May God bless our troops , 

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our veterans and their families . And 

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may God continue to bless the United 

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States of America ? Thank you very much . 

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Would all families representing 

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prisoners of war and those still 

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missing in action ? Please stand to be 

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honored . 

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00 , man . 10 f 

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to right shoulder . Hey . 

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Oh , ready to . 

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Oh . 

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Right . Yeah . 

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Right . 

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Hey . Hey , 

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so , oh , 

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what , what ? 

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That's great . Ok . 

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At this time , the United States Navy 

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band will play the joint service med . 

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Ladies and gentlemen , please direct 

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your attention to skywalk for a 

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specially over by the United States 

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Army's Aviation Battalion flying uh 60 

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Black Hawks . 

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Ladies and gentlemen , this concludes 

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today's ceremony . Please remain at 

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your seats while the official party 

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departs .