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Derelict Japanese Bomber,
Madang, Papua New Guinea |
Leave no one behind - America is a compassionate country. One that promises its military, and their families, that we’ll leave no stone unturned to bring the missing home. All Americans stand behind this promise, but in practice, there is much more we must do. Project Homecoming exists to close that gap. We believe progress must be made in three major areas, 1) assisting efforts to locate the missing, 2) educating the public to bring awareness to the issue, which in turn increases funding and helps the Government's own efforts and 3) advocating for individual famiiies whose loved one's remains are located but not yet returned.
Over 80,000 American soldiers remain missing from World War II, Korea, the Cold War and Vietnam. To the families, these missing are not ancient history, their loss is real and current. Despite the Government's best efforts, only 60-75 are returned per year. Given the aging of the children and siblings of these soldiers and the imminent passing of the witnesses to the battles in which these men were lost, the task of recovery grows more urgent.
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| Keith Phillips, Founder, Project Homecoming |
Explore our site to learn the stories of these families. Learn of these soldiers, sailors and airmen and women’s sacrifices, and see how friends around the world co-operate to get them home. Then commit yourself to honoring these missing by helping us bring them home. Register your support, take advantage of our tools to contact your congressman and Senators to inform them of your commitment and donate what you can so that we can continue our work of locating the missing and reporting their location to the Military for return.
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In late 2009, after thousands of letters from supporters like you, the House, Senate and President Obama instructed the Defense Department to triple the rate of recoveries of American Missing Service Personnel, and to seek the 89,000 missing of all wars, 34,000 of whom are thought by the Military to be "Potentially Recoverable". Last years law has not been funded, and one year later no implementation plan has been prepared. This month Congressman Lipinski of Illinois circulated a letter to all Congressmen seeking funding for the effort as part of this months Appropriations negotiations. In the absence of this effort, The Veterans Administration estimates that roughly half the surviving family members of the Missing will themselves pass on before last years law is implemented. We need you to sign our petition and ask your Congressman to join Rep. Lipinski if we are to assure that our promise to recover these Missing while their families can welcome them home is not a hollow one. Click HERE to let your voice be heard and bring home our missing, but not forgotten, men and women.
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