THE WALL OF FACES

I am the Curator of the POW/MIA Bracelet Display in the Vietnam Hangar of the Palm Springs Air Museum in Palm Springs, California where we now have over two thousand bracelets and would be honored to include your bracelet in our Display. If you are an immediate family member (spouse, fiancé, sibling, child, grandchild, cousin, niece, nephew) or close friend I can order one for the Display in your name.
https://palmspringsairmuseum.org/vietnam-pow-bracelet-display/
Dr. Dave Thompson
Palm Springs Air Museum
POW/MIA Bracelet Display Curator
Lt. Commander U.S. Navy 1964-1970
10-103 Lakeview Dr. Rancho Mirage, Ca 92270
760-328-0859 760-464-6843 [email protected]

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. It remains my fervent hope you will be returned home.

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. As of the date of the 2020 ceremony, Major William Orlan Bare, ex-USMA Class of 1966, USAF, is one of those 1,586 MIAs unaccounted for in Southeast Asia from the Vietnam War. There are 10 USMA graduates still MIA in SEA.

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 the 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/

Information about the loss (possible crash) of an RF-4C Phantom jet aircraft from the 16th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron on which MIA 1st Lt William Orlan Bare, USAF, ex-USMA Class of 1966, was the Weapon Systems officer, in Southeast Asia (SEA) (over North Vietnam) on 26 July 1967 is available at this link/URL on the Vietnam Air Losses website:

https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=1264

While in MIA status, the U.S. Air Force promoted 1st Lt Bare to Captain and then to Major along with his Air Force contemporaries.

Remembered on what would've been his 80th birthday - 28 March 2021.

Since the entry on this VVMF website for MIA Major William Orlan Bare, USAF, ex-USMA Class of 1966, on 8 February 2018, the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) updated the link/URL on its website for him at the Honolulu Memorial (Court "A") 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/bare%3Dwilliam-0