U.S. service members and guests lay wreaths in honor

U.S. service members and guests lay wreaths in honor of the missing during a National POW/MIA Recognition Day ceremony hosted by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, Sept. 20, 2019. First established in 1979, through a proclamation from President Jimmy Carter, National POW/MIA Recognition Day, is an observance to honor and recognize the sacrifices of those Americans who have been a POW and to remind the nation of those who are still MIA. DPAA conducts worldwide operations to provide the fullest possible accounting of our missing to their families and the nation. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Jacqueline A. Clifford)