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Fall River holds POW/MIA recognition ceremony Sept. 19; names read, proclamation delivered
Summary
Veterans, city officials and family members gathered at the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Fall River on Sept. 19, 2025, to read names of service members listed as POW/MIA, hear a presidential proclamation read aloud and renew a commitment to account for missing personnel.
Fall River held a POW/MIA recognition ceremony Sept. 19, 2025, at the Vietnam Memorial Wall and Veterans Memorial Bicentennial Park, where local veterans, city officials and family members read the names of service members listed as missing and heard a presidential proclamation read aloud.
The event commemorated prisoners of war and those missing in action and included a formal reading of a White House proclamation, a poem, the recitation of names from the memorial and closing prayers. Organizers and speakers used the ceremony to reaffirm continuing efforts to locate and repatriate missing service members.
"There are about 1,566 still missing in action," said Justin…
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