[PGR_PA_r5] POW-MIA Flad Raising

[PGRPA Hoth East East]

*ABOUT THE MISSION:*
After being listed as MIA in the Vietnam War for over 42 years, Army Capt.
Charles R. Sonny Barnes remains had been identified and interred May 2,
2012 in Arlington National Cemetery. He was a 1960 graduate of Whitehall
High School. On March 16, 1969, Barnes and four other service members
departed Qui Nhon Airfields bound for Da Nang and Phu Bai, in a U-21A Ute
aircraft. As they approached Da Nang, they encountered low clouds and poor
visibility. Communications with the aircraft were lost, and they did not
land as scheduled. Immediate search efforts were limited due to hazardous
weather conditions, and all five men were list as missing in action.

>From 1986-1989, unidentified human remains were turned over to the U.S.
from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (S.R.V.) in several different
instances. None of the remains were identified given the limits of the
technology of the time.

In 1993, a joint U.S./S.R.V. team, led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting
Command (JPAC), conducted investigations in Quang Nam-Da Nang, and Thua
Thien-Hue Provinces. They interviewed a local Vietnamese citizen who
supplied remains and an identification tag bearing Barnes’ name, which he
claimed to have recovered from an aircraft crash site.

In 1999, another joint U.S./S.R.V. team interviewed additional Vietnamese
citizens about the crash and they were led to the crash site. In 2000, a
joint U.S./S.R.V. team excavated the site and recovered human remains and
material evidence.

Scientists from the JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory
used circumstantial evidence, and forensic identification tools such as
mitochondrial DNA – which matched that of Barnes’ sister – in the
identification of the remains.

Capt. Barnes was a true American hero and it is our turn to honor his
service and his life with the respect he so deserves as the POW-MIA flag is
raised in his honor at his high school football field.
*PRIMARY STAGING DETAILS: 09-06-19*
*Staging Time: 6:00 pm*
Schadt Avenue Playground
1975 Schadt Avenue
Whitehall, Pennsylvania 18052
https://goo.gl/maps/9S3aLSe1n5t7b5Zo6
*Ride Captain:*
George (Bubba) Wirth
Phone: 610-248-9540
E-mail: georgepwirth at hotmail.com
*Special Instructions:*
Staging at the Playground with KSU at 6:15pm. Wristbands will be provided
for entrance into the football field upper parking lot. The request was
made to ride in together and to form the flag line at 6:45pm along the side
lines where coaches and players will join in. Distance is 1.1 mile to the
football field located at 2940 MacArthur Rd. Whitehall. Pa.18052
https://goo.gl/maps/s6qr2s7ESYkkuYALA
*Flags & Water:*
Flags will not be provided
If you have large bike flags, please bring them.
Water WILL NOT be provided, please bring your own.
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Joyce Pawlowski
HOTH Representative - East
PA Patriot Guard Riders
www.pgrpa.org
www.patriotguard.org
email: pgrpa.hoth.east at gmail.com

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