National POW/MIA Recognition Day

The day to remember those who never came home, and those still not fully accounted for.

National POW/MIA Recognition Day, observed on the third Friday of September, honors American prisoners of war and those missing in action from all of the country's armed conflicts. The POW/MIA flag, with its silhouette of a prisoner of war and the words 'You Are Not Forgotten,' is the only flag othe