[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 147 (Tuesday, September 9, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S6463]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    NATIONAL POW/MIA RECOGNITION DAY

  Mr. CRAPO. Mr. President, in acknowledgement of National POW/MIA 
Recognition Day this September 19, 2025, I honor Idaho's and all of 
America's prisoners of war, POWs, and missing in action, MIA, as I 
extend my support and gratitude to their loved ones.
  In February, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, DPAA, the Agency 
primarily responsible for recovering America's servicemembers, unveiled 
its 2025 National POW/MIA Recognition Day poster. Each year, the Agency 
creates a poster commemorating the lives of U.S. servicemembers still 
unaccounted for from past conflicts and showcasing the DPAA's 
commitment to bringing them home. This year's poster features the 
statement, ``Delivering on the nation's promise.''
  Fittingly, this year's poster was designed by a Gold Star Daughter, 
Jeanie Jacobs Huffman who, unfortunately, knows deeply and personally 
the price military families pay for our freedoms. Jeanie Jacobs 
Huffman's father, Navy Commander Edward J. Jacobs, Jr., remains 
unaccounted for after contact was lost with the aircraft he was 
piloting in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of North Vietnam in 1967. 
At the unveiling of the poster, Jeanie shared, ``I always felt a huge 
void in my life not having my father. I believe that each of our 
missing is still seeking their way home and they expect that our 
nation's promise will be kept.''
  To help meet our Nation's promise to America's servicemembers and 
support the efforts of those who work tirelessly for their return, I 
continue to press for the enactment of the Bring Our Heroes Home Act. 
This legislation would help eliminate obstacles preventing families and 
caseworkers from accessing the records needed for recovering America's 
POWs and MIA.
  This POW/MIA Recognition Day, and every day, I remain deeply grateful 
for the committed individuals and groups, such as the POW*MIA Awareness 
Rally Corp. of Pocatello, ID, and others across our country who keep an 
unwavering spotlight on the need to bring every American servicemember 
home. With a heavy but hopeful heart, I continue to pray for all those 
who await answers about lost servicemembers and thank America's 
servicemembers, veterans, and their families for their extraordinary 
commitment to our country.

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