PRISONERS OF WAR

Articles and editorials

For More Than Two Years, Hiroshi Miyamura's Medal of Honor Was a Tightly Guarded Secret, S2725 [22MR]

Recovering Japan's Wartime Past—And Ours, H7948 [8NO]

They Should Have Their Day in Court, S9219 [10SE]

Bills and resolutions

Committee on POW and MIA Affairs (House, Select): establish (see H. Res. 65), H443 [27FE]

Dept. of Defense: authorize certain disabled former POW to use commissary stores and post and base exchanges (see S. 43), S98 [22JA]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: eligibility of retired members of the Armed Forces for priority health care on the same basis as former POWs (see H.R. 2711), H5125 [1AU]

Families and domestic relations: eligibility of surviving spouses of certain former prisoners to receive dependency and indemnity compensation (see H.R. 2878), H5592 [11SE]

Federal employees: issue a POW medal to civilians who are forcibly detained by enemy forces under wartime conditions (see S. 45), S98 [22JA]

Flags: require display of the POW/MIA flag at the World War II memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (see S. 1226), S8122 [24JY] (see H.R. 3177), H7358 [29OC]

Immigration: provide refugee status to foreign nationals who assist in the return of POW/MIA (see S. 1339), S8704 [2AU]

Veterans: improve benefits for former POWs (see H.R. 3430), H9077 [6DE]

———provide additional compensation to survivors of Bataan Death March (see H.R. 963), H826 [8MR]

World War II: preserve certain Federal court actions relative to Japanese companies compensating former prisoners of war used as slave labor (see S. 1154), S7193 [29JN] (see S. 1272), S8464 [31JY] (see H.R. 1198), H1114 [22MR]

———provide additional compensation to Armed Forces members and U.S. civilian employees who performed slave labor for Japan (see S. 1302), S8703 [2AU] (see H.R. 2835), H5405 [5SE]

Court decisions

Justice for U.S. Prisoners of War Act: Vaughn R. Walker, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, S9228-S9230 [10SE]

Letters

Justice for U.S. Prisoners of War Act: George P. Schultz, S9227, S9230 [10SE], H4170 [18JY]

Preserve certain Federal court actions relative to Japanese companies compensating former World War II prisoners of war used as slave labor: Margaret Mikyung Lee, Congressional Research Service, H7946 [8NO]

Tribute to Hiroshi H. Miyamura: Senator Domenici, S2725 [22MR]

Lists

Indianans unaccounted for in Korea, S9612 [21SE]

Indianans unaccounted for in Southeast Asia, S9611 [21SE]

State listing of survivors and their families who would benefit or be affected by class action suits against Japanese companies compensating former Prisoners of war used as slave labor, S9240 [10SE]

Press releases

Missing Persons in the Nagorno-Karabagh Territorial Conflict: Svetlana Gannushkina, Bernhard Clasen, and Paata Zakareishvili, H10455 [19DE]

Remarks in House

National POW/MIA Recognition Day: observance, E1691 [21SE]

Veterans: provide additional compensation to survivors of Bataan Death March and Corregidor garrison surrender, H3612-H3616 [26JN]

Vietnam: crash of helicopter attempting to account for U.S. MIAs, E787 [10MY]

———full accounting of POW/MIA, H4643, H4646 [26JY], H5428, H5430, H5435-H5440 [6SE]

World War II: encourage Japanese companies to compensate former prisoners of war used as slave labor, H5182 [2AU]

———preserve certain Federal court actions relative to Japanese companies compensating former prisoners of war used as slave labor, H7945-H7950 [8NO]

———preserve certain Federal court actions relative to Japanese companies compensating former prisoners of war used as slave labor (H.R. 1198), H3993-H3998 [12JY], E1172, E1177 [21JN], E1297 [11JY]

———prohibit funding to oppose certain Federal court actions relative to Japanese companies compensating former prisoners of war used as slave labor, H4168-H4171 [18JY]

———provide additional compensation to Armed Forces members and U.S. civilian employees who performed slave labor for Japan (H.R. 2835), H7945, H7946 [8NO]

Remarks in Senate

Dept. of Defense: authorize certain disabled former POW to use commissary stores and post and base exchanges (S. 43), S318 [22JA]

Federal employees: issue a POW medal to civilians who are forcibly detained by enemy forces under wartime conditions (S. 45), S319 [22JA]

Flags: require display of the POW/MIA flag at the World War II memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (S. 1226), S8126 [24JY]

Immigration: provide refugee status to foreign nationals who assist in the return of POW/MIA (S. 1339), S8760 [2AU]

National POW/MIA Recognition Day: observance, S9610 [21SE]

Veterans: provide additional compensation to survivors of Bataan Death March and Corregidor garrison surrender, S11882 [15NO]

Vietnam: crash of helicopter attempting to account for U.S. MIAs, S3875 [25AP]

World War II: preserve certain Federal court actions relative to Japanese companies compensating former prisoners of war used as slave labor, S7187 [29JN], S11882, S11883 [15NO]

———preserve certain Federal court actions relative to Japanese companies compensating former prisoners of war used as slave labor (S. 1272), S8466, S8467 [31JY]

———prohibit funding to oppose certain Federal court actions relative to Japanese companies compensating former prisoners of war used as slave labor, S9219-S9234, S9239-S9241 [10SE], S9332 [12SE], S9435 [14SE]

———provide additional compensation to Armed Forces members and U.S. civilian employees who performed slave labor for Japan (S. 1302), S8709 [2AU]

Statements

Return of POW/MIA Bracelet to Representative Sam Johnson: Kay Blythe Tracy, E2347 [20DE]

Texts of

S. 43, authorize certain disabled former POW to use Dept. of Defense commissary stores and post and base exchanges, S318 [22JA]

S. 45, issue a POW medal to civilian Federal employees who are forcibly detained by enemy forces under wartime conditions, S319 [22JA]

S. 1226, POW/MIA Memorial Flag Act, S8126 [24JY]

S. 1339, Persian Gulf War POW/MIA Accountability Act, S8760 [2AU]