Remember them, Never forget
them.
Honor them, Believe in
them.
Most of all support those
who
are still here.
Thank you Doc.
I saw this picture and
thanked god, that my
daddy made it home.
If he hadn't I would not
be here typing this.
But I was one of the luckier
ones. There are
many men and women who were
left fatherless.
But worst yet, some do not know what
fate had fallen on their
fathers. It does not take much
to write to a representative,
senator, or to the president
himself. Voice
your concerns. And if you are like me, a lucky
one, help those who were
not as lucky. Help them bring
their Daddy's Home.
On Thursday May 27, 1999
I made the pledge not to forget
our men and women who
have still not been found.
I adopted my first POW/MIA
from Operation Just Cause.
Below please find the
information pertaining to the POW
I adopted. From
what I have read, he has been declared deceased by
our government, but no
remains have been found.
EGAN, JAMES THOMAS JR.
Name: James Thomas
Egan, Jr.
Rank/Branch: O2/US
Marine Corps
Unit: H/3/12
Date of Birth: 31
May 1943
Home City of Record:
Mountainside NJ
Date of Loss: 21
January 1966
Country of Loss: South
Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 144800N
1084100E (BS521369)
Status (in 1973): Missing
In Action
Category: 2
Acft/Vehicle/Ground:
Ground
Refno: 0235
Others In Incident: (none
missing)
Source: Compiled by
Homecoming II Project 15 October 1990 from one or more
of the following: raw data
from U.S. Government agency sources,
correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews.
Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK
1998.
SYNOPSIS: James T.
Egan graduated from the University of Notre Dame before
his 21st birthday. He joined
the Marine Corps, temporarily setting aside his
ambition to become a patent
lawyer. A 95 average at Quantico allowed him to
select his assignment, and
he chose Hawaii.
Once in Hawaii, 1Lt. Egan's
unit was unexpectedly ordered to Vietnam. Egan's
bright future changed when
his unit was hit by enemy fire and he disappeared
on January 21, 1966. His
unit was operating about 15 miles southwest of the
city of Quang Ngai in South
Vietnam. Egan failed to arrive at the scheduled
rendezvous point his reconnaissance
patrol had arranged, and he was declared
Missing in Action.
Some years later, a South
Vietnamese soldier reported that he had been held
captive with Egan, but that
the communists had executed Egan. As the Marine
Corps never changed his
status to Prisoner of War, the validity of this
report cannot be ascertained.
There have been thousands
of reports received by the U.S. Government
regarding Americans held
in Southeast Asia. Government experts disagree
whether or not these reports
constitute actionable evidence. To date, the
U.S. has been unable to
secure the release of even a single prisoner held
after the war. The Egan
family wants to know if Egan is one of them - and
when he will be brought
home.
James T. Egan, Jr. was promoted
to the rank of Major during the period he
was maintained Missing in
Action.
Dear Major Egan,
I don't know what to say most of the
time.
But I do know I want to say "THANK
YOU" to you.
Thank you for giving the ultimate sacrifice,
so that the
rest of us can live in freedom.
I am sorry for the
disrespect that has been paid in the
past by
so many that should have been standing
by you and your
memory. And I promise to not
let them forget anymore.
I promise to do everything I can to
get you home.
If you have any questions or just feel
like saying hello, please
feel free to email me at
divacop408@hotmail.com
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