Missing
If you had a family member that was missing how long would you want to wait before you gave up and considered them dead?
I read an AOL news article this morning about the wife of the deputy warden of an Oklahoma prison that disappeared ten years along with a convict that escaped from the prison. She told authorities that he has held her captive the whole time. They were found after a tip sent to the TV show "America's Most Wanted" led law enforcement officers to a mobile home in Campti, Texas. The article leads me to believe that they have spent the entire ten years in Texas. The article doesn't say anything about the family giving her up for dead. I guess they had continued to believe that she would return home alive. I wonder how many times they were advised to give up over the past ten years.
I also got an e-mail about a missing man this morning. It says that every morning before going to work Carolyn Maupin says a prayer asking for someone to find and rescue her son Matt. Matt Maupin is the only American soldier classified as a captive in Iraq. Wednesday (tomorrow) almost exactly a year after Spc. Matt Maupin disappeared the Army is scheduled to convene a panel to decide if he should continue to be classified as a captive or if he should be considered dead."We don't want him to be forgotten," Matt's Mother said in a recent interview. "I am just afraid that if they move on, then what will we say when he shows up alive and we aren't there waiting for him?" Before you say that would be impossible let me point out the fact that from time to time we hear about South Korean soldiers that were taken prisoner during the Korean War escaping and returning home. Army officials say that Maupin has not been forgotten, and they are still looking for him, but they cannot provide any details about their efforts.
Spc. Maupin was captured last year on April 9. I find something very interesting about that date and the fact that our government might be giving up on finding him alive. On April 1, 2005 President Bush issued a proclamation making April 9, 2005 National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day. If you would like to read the proclamation go to my April 2, 2005 posting, "Proclamation". Every since our country was born we have left soldiers behind after every war we have ever been involved in. These soldiers were Husbands, Fathers, Mothers, Sisters and Brothers that had taken time out of their lives to serve their country. We must never forget any of them.
If You would like to read more about POW/MIA issues go to, www.pownetwork.org
God Bless America, God Save The Republic.
I read an AOL news article this morning about the wife of the deputy warden of an Oklahoma prison that disappeared ten years along with a convict that escaped from the prison. She told authorities that he has held her captive the whole time. They were found after a tip sent to the TV show "America's Most Wanted" led law enforcement officers to a mobile home in Campti, Texas. The article leads me to believe that they have spent the entire ten years in Texas. The article doesn't say anything about the family giving her up for dead. I guess they had continued to believe that she would return home alive. I wonder how many times they were advised to give up over the past ten years.
I also got an e-mail about a missing man this morning. It says that every morning before going to work Carolyn Maupin says a prayer asking for someone to find and rescue her son Matt. Matt Maupin is the only American soldier classified as a captive in Iraq. Wednesday (tomorrow) almost exactly a year after Spc. Matt Maupin disappeared the Army is scheduled to convene a panel to decide if he should continue to be classified as a captive or if he should be considered dead."We don't want him to be forgotten," Matt's Mother said in a recent interview. "I am just afraid that if they move on, then what will we say when he shows up alive and we aren't there waiting for him?" Before you say that would be impossible let me point out the fact that from time to time we hear about South Korean soldiers that were taken prisoner during the Korean War escaping and returning home. Army officials say that Maupin has not been forgotten, and they are still looking for him, but they cannot provide any details about their efforts.
Spc. Maupin was captured last year on April 9. I find something very interesting about that date and the fact that our government might be giving up on finding him alive. On April 1, 2005 President Bush issued a proclamation making April 9, 2005 National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day. If you would like to read the proclamation go to my April 2, 2005 posting, "Proclamation". Every since our country was born we have left soldiers behind after every war we have ever been involved in. These soldiers were Husbands, Fathers, Mothers, Sisters and Brothers that had taken time out of their lives to serve their country. We must never forget any of them.
If You would like to read more about POW/MIA issues go to, www.pownetwork.org
God Bless America, God Save The Republic.
posted by David Schantz | 3:54 PM
1 Comments:
There's a video appeared showing Matt Maupin and his masked gunmen surrounding him. And the second video showing killing him. And the U.S. found his remains on March 30, 2008.
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