National POW/MIA Memorial & Museum in the Media
JAX’s National POW/MIA Memorial & Museum observes National POW/MIA Recognition Day
By Lucia Viti September 16, 2022 at 5:00 am EDT JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In 1979, President Jimmy Carter issued a proclamation commemorating the third Friday in September as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Every American president since has issued the same...
POW/MIA Day events honor missing military members
By Dan Scanlan Published on September 14, 2023 at 12:47 pm Jacksonville will remember missing military members Friday and Saturday at events marking National POW/MIA Recognition Day. An open house is scheduled Friday at Jacksonville’s National POW/MIA Memorial at...
Remember the 82,000 Still Missing in Action
If 82,000 people donated $82 per year, the organization would have the means to support the National POW-MIA Memorial and Museum now and into the future.
Restored Navy jet signals next step at Jacksonville’s POW/MIA Museum
WJCT News | By Dan Scanlan Published June 2, 2023 at 11:38 AM EDT An F/A-18A Hornet wears a distinctive two-tone paint job as it perches in front of the National POW/MIA Memorial and Museum at Jacksonville's Cecil Airport. Its tail fins bear insignias for Navy Strike...
First Coast News and TEGNA Foundation Award
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENovember 23, 2021 First Coast News and TEGNA Foundation Award $25,000 in Community Grants to Aid 10 Jacksonville-Area Nonprofit Organizations Jacksonville, FL – First Coast News and the TEGNA Foundation, the charitable foundation sponsored by...
Loved ones honor POW-MIAs in emotional ceremony at Cecil Field
Today many gathered in Cecil Field for the POW/MIA recognition day event. Brie Isom - WJXT Today many gathered in Cecil Field for the POW/MIA recognition day event. Many gathered Saturday at Cecil Field for a POW-MIA Recognition Day event honoring those who didn’t...
Rutherford, Lawson Reintroduce Bill to Establish a National POW/MIA Memorial and Museum in Jacksonville
September 17, 2021 Press Release Legislation would designate the POW/MIA Memorial at Cecil Field as the national memorial WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, on National POW/MIA Recognition Day, Congressman John Rutherford (FL-04) and Congressman Al Lawson (FL-05)...
30 YEARS LATER Remembering Operation Desert Shield & Desert Storm
Article Originally Published in Liberty Life Magazine, January 27, 2021 On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait, a move unsupported by dozens of world leaders. The result, five days later, was the commencement of Operation Desert Shield and a U.S.-led...
HONORING GOLD STAR FAMILIES
Plans for a new monument and garden commence By Stephanie Thompson - Liberty Life Magazine In the September 16 issue of Liberty Life, we talked about Cecil Field POW/MIA Memorial Inc.’s plans to build the future National POW/MIA Museum & Memorial. It is an...
Full Accounting Effort for POW/MIA’S In Vietnam Continues 45 Years After War
Author: Ken Amaro - First Coast News - Published: 6:17 PM EDT September 17, 2020 "We have a tendency to put history on the back burner and I think that is a disservice to our country." - Pat Archuleta. JACKSONVILLE, Fla — Former Naval Air Station Cecil Field...
Orange Park Furniture
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...
McCain wrote letter approving Cecil Field POW/MIA Memorial
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...
Memorial at Cecil Field takes another step toward plan for national destination site
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...
Relatives of pilots lost in battle describe hope for Cecil Field Memorial
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 home,...
Plans underway for POW/MIA Museum at Cecil Commerce Center
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...
Cecil Field roadway honors prisoners of war, missing in action
A road at Cecil Field was dedicated to prisoners of war and military members missing in action on Tuesday. Related Headlines The unveiling of POW-MIA Memorial Parkway marked the start of efforts on a memorial to the service members in Jacksonville. Plans for the...
Cecil Field road renamed for prisoners of war, missing in action
Jacksonville City Council took unanimous action May 22 to rename a local road the POW-MIA Memorial Parkway in honor of former prisoners of war and the more than 82,000 servicemen and women still considered missing in action. New World Avenue, which runs from Cecil...
Samuel Proctor Award
On May 17th, in Sarasota, Florida, Lyn Corley (pictured center) was presented with the 2018 Samuel Proctor Award for her oral history on “Conversations from Cecil Field” series. Mrs. Corley spent over a year conducting interviews of service members, spouses and...
Road Name Change To Honor POW/MIA
Resident Community News A bill to honor and recognize former prisoners of war and the more than 82,000 service members still missing in action and unaccounted for was heard at the March 13 City Council meeting. Proposed by Cecil Field POW/MIA Memorial, Inc., Bill...
FSU unveils memorial in honor of U.S. Navy war hero Scott Speicher
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The spirit of Scott Speicher, an FSU alumnus celebrated as a true American war hero, is alive and well on the campus of Florida State University. FSU President John Thrasher joined members of Speicher’s family Friday to unveil a new memorial...
Foundation Academy partnership brings military history to life
School lessons of military conflict and escapes from captivity took on a whole new meaning Friday morning as students at The Foundation Academy listened to veterans reliving heroic stories from their time fighting for freedom. Dennis “Dizzy” Gillespie and Andy...
New seat at Jumbo Shrimp games will remain empty to honor POW/MIA service members
The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp added an additional seat to their stadium Monday before the season finale that isn’t meant for anyone who will ever pass through the turnstiles. The seat will forever remain vacant in...
Mayor signs bill, turns Cecil Field memorial site over to nonprofit
Twelve weeks after its introduction and just eight weeks after Jacksonville’s City Council approved the bill, Mayor Lenny Curry executed a lease agreement Aug. 23 with POW/MIA Memorial Inc. to establish a memorial at Cecil Field to honor POW/MIA service men and women....
Grand vision starting to come together at POW/MIA memorial at former Cecil Field
The first step to creating a multimillion dollar national memorial on the site of a former jet base on Jacksonville’s Westside is to refurbish a chapel that once held memorial services for pilots who never returned from war. Sam Houston was shocked by what he found a...
Group hopes lease will be step toward Jacksonville national POW/MIA memorial
A table set for one sat in the middle of the Jacksonville City Council meeting Tuesday night to symbolize prisoners of war or missing-in-action service members who were unable to be there to witness the start of a public movement to bring a national POW/MIA memorial...