POW/MIA Memorial - Downtown Tampa
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N 27° 56.852 W 082° 27.459
17R E 356602 N 3092245
Memorial plaque placed on February 19, 1987 and designed by Dana and Michele Chwan
Waymark Code: WM5CZV
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 12/20/2008
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Throughout history we have answered
our country's call to arms,
for freedom, for justice,
for self - determination of an ally,
we have served, and sometimes paid
in grim coin the price extracted.
Through no fault of ours,
somehow we were left
on foreign shores.
Some of us lie in unmarked graves,
some of us remain behind prison bars
and some of us serve as slave laborers,
yet all of us yearn to be
returned to the land of our birth.
Whether to live out the remainder
of our lives in freedom,
or to rest in peace, at last,
in our native soil –
America, America, bring us home – someday.
Missing In Action
World War II – 78,751
Korea – 8,177
Vietnam –
The Citizens of Tampa, Florida Salute
OUR AMERICAN POW/MIAS
You are not forgotten
February 19, 1987