Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Justin Skorupa, a musician with the Pacific Fleet Band, plays "Taps," the national song of remembrance, to honor fallen veterans during a National Prisoner of War and Missing in Action Recognition Day ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Sept. 21, 2012. Veterans and active duty service members were among the approximately 500 attendees. During the ceremony, retired Army Col. William S. Reeder, Jr., spoke about his year spent as a POW in Vietnam after his plane was shot down during combat operations. Their sacrifice remembered, POW,
Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Justin Skorupa, a musician with the Pacific Fleet Band, plays "Taps," the national song of remembrance, to honor fallen veterans during a National Prisoner of War and Missing in Action Recognition Day ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Sept. 21, 2012. Veterans and active duty service members were among the approximately 500 attendees. During the ceremony, retired Army Col. William S. Reeder, Jr., spoke about his year spent as a POW in Vietnam after his plane was shot down during combat operations. Their sacrifice remembered, POW,MIA honored in Honolulu 120921-M-MM918-008
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