ITEMS LEFT AT THE WALL

Commemorative POW*MIA bracelet dedicated to fifteen (15) Vietnam-era POW*MIA servicemembers from the State of Maine. The bracelet bears stenciled inscriptions identifying each of these servicemembers, depicting the National League of POW*MIA Families logo, and listing POW*MIA casualty figures for American military conflicts ranging from WWII - present and reading, "REMEMBER and HONOR POW*MIA / WW11 78,700+ / KOREA 8,000+ / VIETNAM 2,000+ / COLD WARS 90+". The artifact was left at The Wall along with an associated American Legion lapel pin (VIVE (11602)) by a donor(s) from American Legion Post #207 (Trenton, Maine) between September - November 1996.

COMMEMORATIVE POW*MIA BRACELET DEDICATED TO U.S. NAVY LIEUTENANT (LT) MALCOLM ARTHUR AVORE, U.S. ARMY STAFF SERGEANT (SSG) JOHN HENRY RALPH BROOKS, U.S. AIR FORCE CAPTAIN (CAPT) CARL RUSSELL CHURCHILL, U.S. AIR FORCE CHIEF MASTER SERGEANT (CMSGT) EDWARD JOSEPH DARCY, U.S. ARMY SERGEANT (SGT) RICHARD CLAIR DORITY, U.S. AIR FORCE CAPTAIN (CAPT) JOHN EVERETT DUFFY, U.S. AIR FORCE LIEUTENANT COLONEL (LT COL) PAUL EVERETT GETCHELL, U.S. NAVY LIEUTENANT (LT) TERENCE HIGGINS HANLEY, U.S. AIR FORCE CAPTAIN (CAPT) JACK ROCKWOOD HARVEY, U.S. ARMY PRIVATE FIRST CLASS (PFC) JOHN NORMAN HUNTLEY, U.S. NAVY ENGINEMAN, PETTY OFFICER SECOND CLASS (EN2) JOSEPH TONY MUSETTI, JR., U.S. AIR FORCE COLONEL (COL) DONALD MYRICK RUSSELL, U.S. AIR FORCE CAPTAIN (CAPT) WILLIAM STEPHEN SANDERS, U.S. NAVY LIEUTENANT JUNIOR GRADE (LTJG) NEIL BROOKS TAYLOR, & U.S. MARINE CORPS STAFF SERGEANT (SSGT) PETER GEORGE VLAHAKOS. THE OBJECT CONSISTS OF A FLAT STRIP OF RECTANGULARLY SHAPED, POLISHED BRASS METAL WITH ROUNDED ENDS BENT INTO A ROUGHLY CIRCULAR SHAPE TO FORM A BRACELET. AN INSCRIPTION STENCILED IN BLACK AT THE EXTERIOR, OBVERSE OBJECT SURFACE OF THE BRACELET BEARS THE NAMES OF THE PREVIOUSLY REFERENCED FIFTEEN (15) VIETNAM-ERA POW*MIA SERVICEMEMBERS FROM THE STATE OF MAINE LISTED IN THREE (3) SEPARATE COLUMNS IN REVERSE ALPHABETICAL ORDER. THE NAMES ARE SUPERIMPOSED OVER THE STATE IDENTIFICATION, "MAINE" STENCILED IN BLACK, POINTILLIST BLOCK SCRIPT. TO THE PROPER RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF THE STENCILED INSCRIPTION AT THE EXTERIOR, OBVERSE OBJECT SURFACE OF THE BRACELET THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF POW*MIA FAMILIES LOGO (I.E. A BLACK SQUARE BEARING A CIRCULARLY SHAPED DISK AT THE CENTER CHARGED WITH A BLACKENED SILHOUETTE OF A SOLDIER IN PROFILE AT THE FOREGROUND AND A BLACK GUARD TOWER AT THE BACKGROUND WITH BARBED WIRE BELOW. THE PHRASE, "POW*MIA" IS EXECUTED IN ARCHED, BLOCK LETTERING ALONG THE UPPER EDGE) IS STENCILED IN BLACK DIRECTLY ABOVE THE PHRASE, "AMERICA PLEASE REMEMBER" SIMILARLY STENCILED IN BLACK, BLOCK SCRIPT. TO THE PROPER LEFT-HAND SIDE OF THE STENCILED INSCRIPTION AT THE EXTERIOR, OBVERSE OBJECT SURFACE OF THE BRACELET THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF POW*MIA FAMILIES LOGO (I.E. A BLACK SQUARE BEARING A CIRCULARLY SHAPED DISK AT THE CENTER CHARGED WITH A BLACKENED SILHOUETTE OF A SOLDIER IN PROFILE AT THE FOREGROUND AND A BLACK GUARD TOWER AT THE BACKGROUND WITH BARBED WIRE BELOW. THE PHRASE, "POW*MIA" IS EXECUTED IN ARCHED, BLOCK LETTERING ALONG THE UPPER EDGE) IS STENCILED IN BLACK DIRECTLY ABOVE THE PHRASE, "REMEMBER AND HONOR POW*MIA" SIMILARLY STENCILED IN BLACK, BLOCK SCRIPT. BELOW THIS PHRASE, TWO (2) SEPARATE COLUMNS OF POW*MIA FIGURES PERTAINING TO AMERICAN INVOLVEMENT IN CONFLICTS RANGING FROM WORLD WAR II - "COLD WARS" ARE STENCILED IN BLACK, BLOCK SCRIPT/ARABIC NUMERALS AND READ, "WW11 78,700+ / KOREA 8,000+ / VIETNAM 2,000+ / COLD WARS 90+". THE OBJECT IS ASSOCIATED WITH VIVE (11602).

Text of the stenciled inscriptions upon the various object surfaces is transcribed in full, as follows: [Exterior, center, obverse object surface, stenciled inscription] "MAINE / MUSETTI JOSEPH TONY JR. / RUSSELL DONALD MYRICK / SANDERS WILLIAM STEPHEN / TAYLOR NEIL BROOKS / VLAHAKOS PETER GEORGE / DUFFY JOHN EVERETT / GETCHELL PAUL EVERETT / HANLEY TERENCE HIGGINS / HARVEY JACK ROCKWOOD / HUNTLEY JOHN NORMAN / AVORE MALCOLM ARTHUR / BROOKS JOHN HENRY RALPH / CHURCHILL CARL RUSSELL / DARCY EDWARD JOSEPH / DORITY RICHARD CLAIR" / [Exterior, proper right-hand side, obverse object surface, stenciled inscriptions] "POW*MIA / AMERICA PLEASE REMEMBER" / [Exterior, proper left-hand side, obverse object surface, stenciled inscriptions] "POW*MIA / REMEMBER and HONOR POW*MIA / WW11 78,700+ / KOREA 8,000+ / VIETNAM 2,000+ / COLD WARS 90+"

Item Weight: 14.5g
Item Width: 1.9cm
Item Depth: 7.5cm (Diameter) / 23.6cm (Circumference) / 5.5cm (Depth)