THE WALL OF FACES

I was in a series of hard classes with Dennis in high school and graduated with him in 1962. We were ambitious friends and competitors, but he was so more serious and determined that it was a great joy to see his ebullience and happiness when he visited my family and me on what must have been his first Christmas leave from the Academy. When I read his senior page description in the Academy yearbook posted online, I thought, “That’s Dennis: Try hard. Try again. Get there. Keep pushing.” It added to the tragedy of his death but also to his honor.

I have one of the silver POW bracelets from the 1970's. About 15 years ago( it may have been longer ) I tried to find out info on Mr. Pugh so I could send the bracelet to a family member. I received a very kind letter from a member of the military and was informed that there was not a resource in place to send it too.
I recently came across the bracelet again and hoped I could find out more information about this brave young man.So....goggle lead me to this site. I was sad to find out that he remained MIA. If there is a family member interested in receiving the POW bracelet I will certainly send it to them.

I wore the Captains POW bracelet from grade school to highschool. I still have it in my Jewelery box.

According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) website at the below link, the MIA status of MIA Major Dennis Gerard Pugh, USAFA Class of 1967, is ACTIVE PURSUIT:

https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000KZcUEAW

As of the latest DPAA update (5 January 2018), Major Pugh is one of 1,601 Americans still unaccounted for in Southeast Asia from the Vietnam War.

http://www.dpaa.mil/portals/85/Documents/VietnamAccounting/2018_stats/Stats20180112.pdf

N.B. - on the date of the loss of his F-4D aircraft, Dennis Pugh was a 1st Lt. While in MIA status, the U.S. Air Force promoted him to Captain, then Major.

MIA Captain Dennis Gerard Pugh, USAFA Class of 1967, has his name chiseled into one of the "Courts of the Missing" at the Honolulu Memorial in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific on the island of Oahu in the state of Hawaii. See the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) website at this link:

https://www.abmc.gov/node/512032#.Wn8FwExFzIU