THE WALL OF FACES

The Department of Defense conducted ceremonies at the Pentagon and at Hickam AFB on Friday, 18 September 2020 in recognition of POW/MIA Recognition Day. Deputy Defense Secretary David L. Nordquist remembered the 1,586 MIAs from the Vietnam War as well as all those still unaccounted for from WWII, the Korean War, the Cold War and other conflicts. Director (Maj. Gen, USAFR, ret) Kelly McKeague of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) also recorded a separate video message to Gold Star MIA families. Additionally, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) produced a “virtual” event on 18 Sep. Since the 2019 Ceremony, DPAA has positively identified 1 Vietnam War MIA. Colonel Warren Leroy Anderson, USAF, is one of those 1,586 MIAs unaccounted for in Southeast Asia from the Vietnam War.

This is the link to the DoD/DVIDS video for the Pentagon ceremony:
https://www.dvidshub.net/video/766486/defense-officials-recognize-prisoners-war-missing-service-members-ceremony

This is the link to the DoD/DVIDS video for the Hickam AFB ceremony:
https://www.dvidshub.net/video/766491/admiral-commemorates-prisoners-war-and-missing-service-members-ceremony

This is the link to DPAA Director McKeague’s video statement:
https://vimeo.com/454474340

This is the link to the VVMF virtual remembrance: https://www.vvmf.org/POWMIA-2020/

The "Friends of Rocky Versace" remember one of Rocky's fellow Vietnam War MIAs, Colonel Warren Leroy Anderson, USAF, on what would've been his 88th birthday - 27 December 2020.

MIA USAF,

From the entry on this VVMF website on 24 June 2018, the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) recently updated the link/URL on its website for MIA Colonel Warren Leroy Anderson, USAF, at the Honolulu Memorial in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (the "Punchbowl") on the island of Oahu in the state of Hawaii.

The updated link/URL is:

https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/anderson%3Dwarren-1

Colonel Warren L Anderson was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism and extraordinary achievement while engaged in aerial flight. He served as a Pilot and was assigned to the 16th Tactical Recon Squadron, 460th Tactical Recon Wing, 7th Air Force.
See https://airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=79483

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recently dedicated a POW/MIA Chair at its facility on Hickam Air Force Base (now Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam). Col. Warren Anderson's daughter, Natalie, was on-hand for the dedication. Below is the caption from DPAA for the photograph that was on the DPAA website.

Natalie Rauch (left), daughter of Col. Warren Anderson, unaccounted-for from the Vietnam War; Kelly McKeague (center), Director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA); and Capt. James Hickerson (right), U.S. Navy retired, returned prisoner of war; unveil a POW/MIA Chair of Honor as part of the chair dedication ceremony at DPAA's facility on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Feb.7, 2020. The new stadium-style chair, which will be permanently secured in DPAA's facility, pays tribute to more than 81,000 unaccounted-for Americans from our nation's designated past conflicts. DPAA’s mission is to provide the fullest possible accounting of our missing personnel to their families and the nation.

[ Air Force photograph by Staff Sgt. Leah Ferrante ]