THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. The interview with your Mother is moving and at the same time inspiring. As long as you are remembered you will remain in our hearts forever….

Dear LTC Kenneth Stonebraker, Thank you for your service as a Navigator. You are still MIA. Please come Home. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Memorial Day is soon, and we honor you. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness, especially now. Be at peace.

Never forget.

HOOAH

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. Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Arnold Stonebraker, 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/

Information about the loss of an RF-4C Phantom piloted by MIA Captain Kenneth Arnold Stonebraker, USAF, in Southeast Asia (SEA) (over North Vietnam) on 28 October 1968 is available at this link/URL on the Vietnam Air Losses website:

https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=2008

While in MIA status, the U.S. Air Force promoted Capt Stonebraker with his contemporaries to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.