POW/MIA Remembrance Ceremony held Engagement
At the Third annual POW/ MIA Recognition Ceremony held at the State Capitol in Little Rock, the United States Daughters of 1812 provided a light dessert reception and U.S. flags and ribbon POW/MIA lapel pins to attendees.
The event, planned and coordinated by Andrea Welch Fisher, granddaughter of a World War II POW, was attended by approximately 150 people. Speakers included state Rep. Trevor Drown.
A special presentation was made to Robert Lentz, a U.S. Navy Korean War POW. Lentz was unable to attend due to health issues.
National POW/MIA Recognition Day is observed on the third Friday in September. It honors those who were prisoners of war and those who are still missing in action. It was established by an Act of Congress, by the passage of Section 1082 of the 1998 Defense Authorization Act. It is one of six days that the POW/MIA flag can be flown. The flag was first recognized by Public Law 101-355 in 1990. The POW/MIA flag was designed during the Vietnam War as a symbol of national concern about U.S. military personnel taken as prisoners of war or listed as missing in action, according to the National League of POW/MIA families. In 1970, Mary Hoff, the wife of a soldier listed as missing in action in the Vietnam War and a member of the National League of POW/ MIA Families, wanted to create a symbol to honor her husband and other POW/MIA veterans.
In addition, the ceremony was witnessed by 67 students from Horatio Elementary School who also were presented with flags and cookies with the assurance from their teacher she would teach the students about the War of 1812.
For information regarding the patriotic activities of USD
1812, call Mary Ellen Laursen at
922-4802.
Greeson - Johnson
Steven Greeson, and Dennis and Danielle McCarty, all of Hot Springs, announce the engagement of their daughter, Shelby Lynn Greeson, to Daniel Curtis Johnson, son of John and Kayla Johnson, of Hot Springs.
The bride-elect is an honors graduate of Cutter Morning Star High School. She is employed as a hostess with Cracker Barrell and cashier with Mickey’s BBQ , and is pursuing a degree in nursing at National Park College.
Her fiance is a graduate of Gospel Light Christian School. He is employed as an all wheeled mechanic with the United States Army and pest and wildlife technician with Advanced Pest Control.
The wedding will be at 1 p.m. Nov. 4 at Gospel Light Baptist Church.