Reflections on Vietnam Veterans Day
Ms. Fern Sumpter Winbush, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Principal Deputy Director, and Vietnam Veteran and Gold Star brother Col. Al Shine leave a ceremony at the Vietnam War Memorial on National Vietnam Veterans Day, March 29, 2022 in Washington, DC. Since 1973, the remains of more than 1,000 Americans killed during the Vietnam War have been identified and returned to their families for burial with full military honors. The Agency vigorously pursues the fullest possible accounting for 1,584 missing American personnel from the war to include civilians. (Defense Department photo by Ashley M. Wright)