THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. As long as you are remembered you will remain in our hearts forever….

On the remembrance of your 81st birthday, your sacrifice is not forgotten.

POW-MIA Never FORGOTTEN

HOOAH

Dear Lt Charles Knochel, Thank you for your service as an Unrestricted Line Officer (Pilot) on the USS INTREPID. You are still MIA. Please come home. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Happy New Year in heaven. The time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.

The Department of Defense conducted a ceremony at the Pentagon on Friday, 20 September 2019 in recognition of POW/MIA Recognition Day. Deputy Defense Secretary David L. Nordquist remembered the 1,587 MIAs from the Vietnam War as well as all those still unaccounted for from WWII, the Korean War, the Cold War and other conflicts. Since the 2018 Ceremony, DPAA has positively identified 7 Vietnam War MIAs. Lieutenant Charles Allen Knochel, USNA Class of 1962, is one of those 1,587 MIAs unaccounted for in Southeast Asia from the Vietnam War. He is one of 4 graduates from his U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis class who is still MIA. The other 3 USNA Class of 1962 MIAs are: 1) LT Charles Fryer; 2) Maj. Lucius Heiskell, USAF; and 3) LTJG Geoff Osborn. As of the date of this ceremony, there are 54 USNA graduates still MIA in SEA from the Vietnam War.

This is the link to the DoD story about the ceremony:

https://www.defense.gov/explore/story/Article/1967474/prisoners-of-war-missing-in-action-remembered-at-pentagon-ceremony/

This is the link to the C-Span video of the ceremony:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?464524-1/pentagon-hosts-national-powmia-recognition-day-ceremony

Lt Charles A Knochel was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his heroism and extraordinary achievement while engaged in flight while serving as a Pilot assigned to the USS Intrepid, Task Force 77, 7th Fleet.
See https://navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=414364