POW/MIA You are no forgotten!!!
I will not forget!So i have adopted a pow,I will write my congressman and ask him what is being done to bring our missing men home. This page is dedicated to all pow's that are out there and specificaly to my adopted pow Lcpl Richard W. Fischer. You can read all about him below also i have links to other pow/mia pages,as well as links to pow/mia organizations that are trying to get some answers. I feel very strongly on this subject i was in the military and yes you do sacrifice alot when you serve your country. This counrty has a bad track record when it comes to the way it treats its service men and women,and its vetrans. I would like to see this change i want answers!If that means i have to write congress every day i will do that. America needs to find our lost men we owe them at least that!! So here is my page dedicated to Lcpl Richard W. Fischer my adopted pow.I hope you read and learn and maybe you can help find a pow!!
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Name: Richard W. Fischer
Rank/Branch: USMC E3
Unit: M 3/5 1ST MAR DIV
Date of Birth: 15 June 47
Home City of Record: Madison, WI
Date of Loss: 08 January 68
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 155456N 1081058E
Status (in 1973): Missing
Category: 2
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground
On January 8, 1968, Lance Corporal Fisher was with an ambush team
in Dien Ban District, south of Da Nang City, Quang Nam Province.
He left his ambush site with a one-legged girl and was never seen
again. A search and rescue party attempting to locate him was
fired upon. A later search failed to locate any trace of him but
an older local resident did say that an American had been taken
prisoner. The non-commissioned officer in charge of the ambush was
recommended for court-martial for permitting a member of the team
to leave the site. In 1970, a former Vietnam People's Army
Lieutenant Colonel provided information, possibly hearsay, that
Lance Corporal Fisher had been killed and buried.
Lance Corporal Fisher was initially declared missing. In December 1978, he was declared dead/body not recovered. Returning U.S. POWs were unable to provide any information about him being alive in the Vietnamese prison system.
Here are some links to other pow/mia sites,and some organizations devoted to getting our pow's back.Please take time to look at some of these sites.
Operation just cause is forefront of pow/mia issues,click on the banner to see their site and support them,and let them know that you have not forgotten!!
The Vietnam-era prisoner-of-war/missing-in-action database,Lots of info here.
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