POW/MIA Recognition Day in Marana

MARANA- The Town of Marana has proclaimed September 16, 2022 as “POW / MIA Recognition Day.”

The Mayor and Town Council approved a proclamation recognizing this day to remember the Americans still missing from our nation’s wars and honor those who have been prisoners of war.

Our country is still missing men from the Vietnam War, 155 are unaccounted for from the Korean War, one is missing from the Cold War and 364 are missing from World War II.

The proclamation states, “on POW/ MIA Recognition Day, we pause to acknowledge, with deep reverence, the brave Americans who were held in captivity and those whose fates have never been resolved, remembering that their families continue to suffer.”

Click here to view the proclamation.