THE WALL OF FACES

Never forget.

HOOAH

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. As long as you are remembered you will always be with us....

Since the entry on this VVMF website for Captain Bunker on 5 March 2019, the U.S. Air Force Academy Library updated the link/URL to access additional information for those USAFA graduates who died or are MIA in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War and whose names are on the Academy's Memorial Wall. The link/URL for ALL graduates is:
http://memwall.usafalibrary.com/#memwallhomepage

Then search, alphabetically, for the name of Park Bunker, USAFA Class of 1963, to learn more information about this Vietnam War MIA.

Remembered on what would've been Capt. Bunker's 80th birthday - 10 December 2020.

The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) recently updated the link/URL on its website for MIA Captain Park George Bunker, USAFA 1963, at the Honolulu Memorial 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/bunker%3Dpark

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. Captain Park George Bunker, USAFA Class of 1963, is one of those 1,586 MIAs unaccounted for in Southeast Asia from the Vietnam War. He is also one of 7 graduates from the U.S. Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs class of 1963 who is still MIA. His 6 other USAFA Class of 1963 MIAs (rank & name) are: (1) Maj. Robert Gilchrist; (2) Capt. Clarence Hemmel; (3) Capt. Wayne Newberry; (4) Capt. Joseph Pirruccello; (5) Maj. Frank Ralston; and (6) Capt. Robert Rex. There are 41 USAFA graduates still MIA in SEA from the Vietnam War. These USAFA MIAs account for 27% of the 151 graduates who made the ultimate sacrifice 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/