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We pray for you each night and day, whereabouts unknown,
so far away.
So much time has passed as others hopes are dashed.
We love you and miss you; our hopes forever hold fast.
We
think of your plight and hold steadfast you'll continue to fight
Whatever you face till someone finds one small trace
That
will lead us to you for our Faith gets us through.
We know that you're out there, stay strong as we search,
Keep looking
for escape routes and rescuers, God and His church.
We will not forget you till you're home with your own kind.
Family,
friends, and supporters we all do gather in candle light vigils
As we pray and discuss all the ways we might matter
In
procuring your release, we will destroy this sick beast.
Those that have held you captive must pay for their actions,
The
pain they have caused you and all of us who forever love you.
To those chains that bind you, SET THEM FREE is our reminder.
We're
coming; we'll get you, never fail
NEVER FORGOTTEN.
©Copyright January 2006 by Diane M. Weller
Dedicated to all POW/MIAs, with Special
Outreach to Scott Speicher and family, Matt Maupin and family, and those that hold onto their Faith
I take up the cause of POW/MIA AWARENESS because it seems to be a 'whispered' issue among American's today. In
essence, being a Military Mom, I understand the ideals of, don't say it, maybe we won't have to think about, deal with it.
But there are two families in the very recent past who ARE dealing with. ie. The Scott Speicher Family
and the Matt Maupin Family. I have had the honor and the greatest of pleasures to talk one and one with Mr. Keith Maupin.
He has been open and honest with me and both of us being Ohioans, I feel a true friendship with the Maupins. Keith and
his wife have shown me just how a family, a set of parents, gets through the everyday living of the UNKNOWN. The massive
questions they have, the unbridled FAITH, and the ability to deal with whatever may come.
Once I discussed with Keith (Mr. Maupin) that I think the worst part of the whole thing, any situation coming close to
this sort of situation, would be the WAITING and the UNKNOWN. I would want ANSWERS, even if they were bad. I would
NEED to KNOW, have closure of some kind.
For over 2+ years now, they have lived day to day, moment to moment, waiting for 'some word', a slice of information.
Can you imagine all the bones (bodies) that have been located in Iraq that they have run DNA on only to discover it is
not Matt? I can't even THINK of going through that daily.
In Vietnam we left hundreds and thousands of men behind, alive and dead. My Marine did a tour in Hanoi, N. Vietnam
as an MSG guarding the American Embassy there. His first encounter with a man and his cart selling old dog tags of Americans
was very upsetting to him. He stood at that cart for an awfully long time. He was attempting to determine the
REAL dogtags from the Vietnamese manufactured ones. My marine admitted he almost bought the whole bunch, real or not!
Then he said, I couldn't hardly force myself to walk away. I felt as it I was turning my back on my fellow service members
and walking away from them. I was haunted for nights on end...endless and countless blank faces coming to me in nightmares
wondering how I could turn my back on my follow brothers at arms and simply walk away. It was awful! I just didn't
have enough money to buy them all. And there are so many places selling GI dogtags. How is anyone to know which
ones are real and which ones are not.
I contacted the DOD and the VA in effort to find out how one would know the difference, and basically, THERE IS NO WAY
OF TELLING. Then we attempted to see about the process of reuniting a dog tag with a family member, next of kin.
Again, hopes were dashed as that too, seemed next to impossible. People move around alot in 35 years. We had no
financing and I don't run websites requesting money, fees or donations.
But what we COULD accomplish we to bring about the POW/MIA AWARENESS that has always been sorely lacking in American's
Hearts and Minds! So here we are.
Merely to get you, the American, to REMEMBER those who are no longer seen, heard from, but who fought valiantly for freedom
for all the rest of us, who are still heroes, who's fates remain UNKNOWN, who's whereabouts remain UNKNOWN, who's life and
death situations remain UNKNOWN, who's families are tormented day and night, night and day, day after day, night after night,
year after year. And all they ask of you is to REMEMBER TOO, PRAY TOO. And if you have a serviceman or servicewoman
deploying, deployed, etc. please mention to them, show them a photo, and ask them to remember Scott and Matt and keep a lookout
for them, keep their ears open for a rumor, a clue, a mention of a name, a place, anything...
DON'T LET MORE POW/MIAs END UP THE SAME WAY THE VIETNAM ERA POW/MIAs DID! LEFT BEHIND, FORGOTTEN. NOT BY
THEIR BROTHER AND SISTER IN ARMS, BY THEIR GOVERNMENT, BY THEIR MILITARY HEADS. BY THE VERY SAME ONES WHO SAID........
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