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]

The "Friends of Rocky Versace" remember POW/MIA and Medal of Honor recipient Captain Humbert Roque "Rocky" Versace, USMA Class of 1959, on what would've been his 86th birthday - 2 July 2023. The "Friends of Rocky Versace" received notification that the Frankfurt American High School (FAHS) alumni will induct CPT Versace into its Sports Hall of Fame on 29 July as an Honorary Member. Rocky attended FAHS in 1953-1954 during his junior year. He is ex-FAHS Class of 1955.

Dear Cap Humbert Versace, Thank you for your service as an Airborne Qualified Tactical Intelligence Staff Officer with Special Force, and for graduating from WEST POINT. I have read so much about you. I hope they find your remains so you can come home. Please come home! Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart . Autumn has begun. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it still needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

The Department of Defense conducted ceremonies at the Pentagon and at Hickam AFB on Friday, 16 September 2022 in commemoration of POW/MIA Recognition Day. DoD Officials the 1,582 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 2021 Ceremony, DPAA has positively identified 2 Vietnam War MIAs. Captain Humbert Roque "Rocky" Versace, USMA Class of 1959, is one of those 1,582 MIAs unaccounted for in Southeast Asia from the Vietnam War. He is also one of 10 graduates from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point who is still MIA. The other 9 USMA MIAs (rank, name & class) are: (1) Col. Wallace Hynds (1945); (2) Col. Herbert Brennan (1947); (3) Col. John Armstrong (1949); (4) Maj. Carl Mitchell (1950); (5) Col. Joseph Austin (1952); (6) Col. Lawrence Tatum (1953); (7) Col. Robert Stewart (1956); (8) Capt. James Dawson (1963); & (9) MAJ James “Cliff” McKittrick (1964). Additionally, CPT Versace is one of 7 MIAs whose name is chiseled into a stone bench beneath a Gold Star at the Captain Rocky Versace Plaza and Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Alexandria, VA. The other 6 MIAs (rank, name & service) are: (1) SFC Douglas Blodgett, USA; (2) Maj. Joe Davies, USAF; (3) Maj. Morgan Donahue, USAF; (4) 1LT Larry Lilly, USA; (5) 1LT Leland McCants, USA; & (6) Seaman Apprentice John Winkler, USN.

Although his DoD "Home of Record" lists Norfolk, VA (the city where he graduated from high school and from which he departed to enter the Military Academy at West Point), Rocky Versace lived with his family in Alexandria (1948-1953) longer than anywhere else in his short life. On 6 July 2002, Captain Versace's family, his USMA 1959 classmates, the "Friends of Rocky Versace" and city of Alexandria representatives dedicated the Captain Rocky Versace Plaza and Vietnam Veterans Memorial, then unveiled a statue of Rocky Versace. Remembered by the FoRV 20 years later.