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Four branches of the Armed Forces were represented during the Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations' Prisoner of War Missing in Action ceremony Sept. 23 inside the Atrium. One member from the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force placed their hat on the table to symbolize the sacrifices of each of the Armed Forces. (U.S. Air Force photo by Augustine G. Salazar)


AFMAO POW/MIA ceremony

Four branches of the Armed Forces were represented during the Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations' Prisoner of War Missing in Action ceremony Sept. 23 inside the Atrium. One member from the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force placed their hat on the table to symbolize the sacrifices of each of the Armed Forces. (U.S. Air Force photo by Augustine G. Salazar)

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Danielle Van Orden talks about her role in past conflicts during the POW/ MIA Remembrance ceremony in the atrium of the Charles C. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs Sept. 20. Van Orden and Ruben Garza, both assigned to the past conflicts branch, spoke during the ceremony talking about their part in working with Air Force families of those identified after being missing in action. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Laura Beckley)
Col. John Devillier, Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations commander, Dover Air Force Base, Del., rubs the name of Capt. Virgil K. Meroney III, from an etching on a wall at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 15. Devillier gave the etching to the Meroney family. Meroney was killed in 1969 when the F-4 he and Col. Wendell Keller were flying crashed while carrying out a mission in Khammouan Province, Laos. (U.S. Air Force photo/Lt. Col. Kevin McAndrews)
A team from the U.S. Air Force Honor Guard, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, D.C., removes the remains of Air Force Col. Gilbert S. Palmer, Jr, from a caisson Nov. 1, 2011 at Arlington National Cemetery. Palmer's aircraft crashed on Feb. 27, 1968 in an unknown location. His remains were identified earlier this year. (U.S. Air Force photo/Steve Kotecki)
An Air Force honor guard team from McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., participates in a burial ceremony honoring Maj. Bruce Lawrence Sept. 24, 2011 at a cemetery in Easton, Pa., approximately 43 years after his aircraft was shot down in Vietnam. Lawrence’s remains were recovered and positively identified through the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command. (U.S. Air Force photo/2nd Lt. Michael Gibson)
An Army veteran honors Maj. Bruce Lawrence Sept. 24, 2011 during his burial ceremony at a cemetery in Easton, Pa. Lawrence was an F4-C Phantom II pilot who was shot down in Vietnam in 1968. Lawrence’s remains were recovered and positively identified through the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command after they were missing nearly four decades. (U.S. Air Force photo/2nd Lt. Michael Gibson)
The Phillipsburg, N.J. and Easton, Pa. communities honor Maj. Bruce Lawrence Sept. 24, 2011 as his remains were brought through his hometown for the final time to a cemetery in Easton, Pa. Lawrence was an F4-C Phantom II pilot who was shot down in Vietnam in 1968. Lawrence’s remains were recovered and positively identified through the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command after they were missing nearly four decades. (U.S. Air Force photo/2nd Lt. Michael Gibson)
An Air Force honor guard team from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., participates in a burial ceremony honoring Maj. Bruce Lawrence Sept. 24, 2011 at a cemetery in Easton, Pa., approximately 43 years after his aircraft was shot down in Vietnam. Lawrence’s remains were recovered and positively identified through the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command. (U.S. Air Force photo/2nd Lt. Michael Gibson)
An Air Force honor guard team from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., participates in a burial ceremony honoring Maj. Bruce Lawrence Sept. 24, 2011 at a cemetery in Easton, Pa., approximately 43 years after his aircraft was shot down in Vietnam. Lawrence’s remains were recovered and positively identified through the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command. (U.S. Air Force photo/2nd Lt. Michael Gibson)
An Air Force honor guard team from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst , N.J., participates in a burial ceremony honoring Maj. Bruce Lawrence Sept. 24, 2011 at a cemetery in Easton, Pa., approximately 43 years after his aircraft was shot down in Vietnam. Lawrence’s remains were recovered and positively identified through the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command. (U.S. Air Force photo/2nd Lt. Michael Gibson)
Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations hosted a Prisoner of War Missing in Action ceremony in remembrance of those who have been POWs or MIA and their families. The AFMAO chapel staff arranged the ceremony for the crowd of about a hundred. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Augustine G. Salazar)
Lt. Col. David Allen (far right), an Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations chaplain, delivers a speech regarding the symbolism displayed on a table honoring prisoners of war and missing in action servicemembers during a Sept. 23 ceremony inside the Atrium. The glass was inverted for the thousands of MIA servicemembers who could not toast on this occasion. (U.S. Air Force photo by Augustine G. Salazar)
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