The 2018 Gathering in the Pines event was a great success and the Event Committee would like to thank the following organizations and individuals for making invaluable contributions of time and monies: AFSA Chapter 559 American Legion Auxiliary Unit 54 American Legion...
We would like to take this opportunity to recognize and thank one of our newest partners, Orange Park Furniture (OPF). OPF recently donated a display case to the Cecil Field POW/MIA Memorial museum. Their contribution helps begin our first steps toward opening the...
The “Cecil Field POW/MIA Memorial” is a group of veterans and community leaders working to erect a 26 acre memorial for military service members who remain missing. The board received a letter endorsing their work from the late Sen. John McCain in early 2017. There...
More than 200 members of the community, including many veterans and current servicemembers, gathered on a sweltering morning July 10 to dedicate the POW-MIA Memorial Parkway, formerly known as New World Avenue, and to celebrate the unveiling of two sets of aviator...
At Cecil Field’s memorial to those missing in action and prisoners of war, 16 Cecil Field pilots who were marked as MIA are honored beside a chapel and under towering trees all with trunks painted yellow. For the families of service members that never made it...
A ceremony was held July 10 to commemorate the refurbishing of former Naval Air Station Cecil Field’s chapel and to rename a main road. The current Cecil Commerce Center’s New World Avenue is now known as POW-MIA (Prisoner of War and Missing in Action) Memorial...
