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VA offers new POW benefits and stats

 
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Deuce
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:59 pm    Post subject: VA offers new POW benefits and stats Reply with quote

Well, for a decent copy you'll have to go to the VA website
http://www1.va.gov/opa/pressrel/index.cfm
(the press release isn't linked there yet...I'll delete this comment when it is...go figure)
The VA instituted some POW benefits today, worth a looksee if you qualify...
and here are the POW stats (tabs don't work in html???)

American Prisoners Of War at End of 2005

Captured Died Returned Refused Alive at
and Interned while POW to U.S. to Return end of 2005
. Military Control

TOTAL 142,246 17,009 125,214 21 29,350
WW I 4,120 14 73,973 -- --
WW II 130,201 14,072 116,129 -- 26,750
Korean 7,140 2,701 4,418 21 2,000
Vietnam 725 64 661 -- 579
Gulf War 47 25 21 -- 21
Somalia 1 -- 1 -- 1
Kosovo 3 -- 3 -- 3
Iraq 9 -- 8 -- 8
Notes: A more detailed analysis is at
http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/Benefits/POW/DOCS/POW4-06-05.doc

Deuce
(if I figure out how to tab, I'll fix the above table...til then I apologize for my obvious limited abilities in html!)

note: Deuce, HTML is disabled in this forum for security reasons and BBCode doesn't support tables (at least in this version of the software)/me#1
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