European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday september 16, 198b the stars and stripes memories won t fade for sex pow by Daryl e. Green stuff writer four decades have passed and he still cries. There was usually about 30 a Day Hal we would take nut on seals of said Mark Hoisey who had tears in his eyes As he spoke of the men he saw die fellow prisoners in the Pacific during world War ii. Had started keeping a record but after it got up n the hundreds i gave Heisey 69, is one of an Esli mated 142.000 . to have been held prisoner in world War i world War ii Korea and Vietnam. Another 92 000 remain missing and unaccounted for. Today National pow-m1a recognition Day has been Sci aside to Honor those who were held captive and those who remain missing. He icy a yogis pics management specialist with the 200th theater army Materiel maim Center in Owci Frikken West Germany was captured m june 1942 in the Philippines. He had spent the first is months of the War As a member of a guerrilla band that had been separated from Friendly forces. Afler we got captured i said Well it looks like my country forgot about us. We re just among the forgot ten men " and there Are things about the next 3 a years he spent As a prisoner in the Philippines and Japan that he icy would just As soon forget. They marched us into this town and Here s now thousands of americans and filipinos and these were the Guys who were coming from the death March he said. The sight of the men literally marching to death suffering from dysentery malaria and Lack of Medica Tion stays with him. But death was not limited to the marchers and it was nol Only caused by sickness. They formed loan groups and if one of you escaped the other nine were supposed to get shot Heincy Day a member of he icy s group turned up missing. The nine men remaining were rounded up. They prepared to be marched out for knew they would really kill us because it had �45 Der te.ch61 Mark heist. They come Back minus americans on a visit to Botswana Pope John Paul ii accepts � wooden Crucifix from youths who carried it across a desert. At cock on pilgrims saddens happened before where icy had marched the nine men Oul Heincy said and then later in the Day we hear shots ring out and they come Back minus but the captors discovered thai the missing Man had become weak and had fallen in a Trench. The remaining nine were allowed to live bul in was an unreal Golia be resigned to your Fale Hoisey said. It s like a Zombie. You re walking around and you Don t know whal s going on. I just had the feeling Hal 1 probably would never gel jul of there he said. Never be Able to see my relatives added to Hal fear was a haired which Heisey said builds up inside of then after awhile you just can t do in anymore. You can feel so much hatred and if you can t let in go then that s about it. You have to devise another Way of getting inc More than 16 million americans who served in world War ii 194,879 were captured or Are Unac counted the More than 3,000 americans reported Cap lured or missing in Vietnam and Indochina 725 were repatriated 2,393 remain unaccounted for. In the 8vj year War 8,744,000 americans year. Congress authorized a medal for those who served honorable As prisoners of War after april 5,1917, the medal which shows an Eagle surrounded by barbed wire and Bayonet Points is special to have other medals that i be got stored away Al Home he said. Bul this one is going to be put out where people can Sec the medal is richly deserved by americans held prisoner in Vietnam Hoisey know whal i Host Guys who were held prisoner in Vietnam Felt like and icy deserve All inc Praise they can pan am leads race to reduce fares to Europe by the associated press following the Lead of pan am corp., several major . Airlines have sharply reduced air fares to Europe. Pan am on tuesday announced a new round trip restricted fare of $298 to London from new York. Washington Detroit and Miami. The new fare rep resents a 41 percent Cut from the airline s previous lowest fare of sos for inc same route pan am spokeswoman Pamela Hanlon said wednesday. In addition to the London super eur Saver Panama said in also is offering new eur Saver fares to 22 other european cities Hal arc up Lojo percent cheaper. The eur Saver fares must be purchased 30 Days i Advance and within 48 hours of making inc Reser vation and arc non refundable. The cities include Paris Rome Frankfurt West Germany Athens Greece Brussels Belgium and Zurich Switzerland american airlines Northwest airlines and trans world airlines inc. Quickly said they would match the new fares in the markets in which icy compels Wilh pan am. Continental airlines said it was studying the possibility of fare cuts but had made no decision. The reductions Are designed to stimulate . Pas Maseru Lesotho a Pope John Paul ii said thursday he was saddened by the bloodshed that occurred during a shool Oul Between police and guerrillas that ended the hijacking of a Busload of pilgrims on their Way to Sec him. Three gunmen and a hostage a Young woman Stu Dent were killed in the Schange of fire wednesday in this Small kingdom surrounded by South Africa. Eleven pilgrims were wounded. The pop6 made his first Public comment on the incident at the end of a mass he celebrated thursday to beautify a French evangelist. Two million worshippers had been Cape died
