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80,000 American Military Personnel remain Missing from World War II, Korea, the Cold War and Vietnam. The Defense Department estimates that 34,000 are "possibly recoverable," yet only 72 - less than 1 in 1,000 - are recovered each year.

You recently received a letter from Congressman Lipinski asking your support for a full accounting of service members lost at war. Please sign on to the letter and forward that endorsement to the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee leadership. One year has passed since the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act called on the Secretary of Defense to implement a comprehensive, coordinated, integrated, and fully resourced program to account for persons lost in the Armed Services from World War II through today. No such plan has been completed, and the effort remains unfunded.

The Veterans' Administration estimates that roughly half the remaining survivers or the older Wars will themselves die prior to the Act's 2015 start date. Having decided to recover their missing, it is cruel to the families and disrespectful to the missing to defer that effort until the benficiaries are no longer among us. Please join the families of the Missing, the Marine Corp League and the thousands of citizens that have written Congress in support of this effort by endorsing this letter of support to Congressmen Norm Dicks and Bill Young of the Subcommittee on Defense Appropriations.

There is no expiration date on out promise to the men and women of the Armed Services to "leave no one behind". I am confident you will support accelerated efforts to research, locate, recover and identify our 80,000 MIA's consistent with the goal of providing the fullest possible accounting of these families while their surviving family members are in a position to benefit from those efforts.

Thank you.