Tampa POW/MIA
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 exacted,
Through no fault of ours,
somehow we are 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 [ blanked ]
The Citizens of Tampa, Florida salute
Our American POW/MIAS
You Are Not Forgotten
February 19, 1987
Marker can be reached from N.Franklin St.(SR 60) near E. Kennedy Blvd, on the left when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
