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Unforgettable People
We have found many, many special places
across this huge Internet, and we would like for you
to also see these places ... Filled with people & facts
that we should never forget.
Both my older brothers were in the military during the latter years of Vietnam. Thankfully, neither had to go, although they both wanted to. But we all had friends and loved ones who went and served their time there. And of those who returned, they didn't return the same. They were older, wiser and somehow different from the young idealistic men and women who had left us.
Then there were those who didn't return. Those who may never return unless we, as a people, not necessarily of the United States, but of the world, push for their return ... one way or the other.
We don't ask for a lot. Just to know. Know of what happened and when. And with that in mind ...
I have someone here I would like you to meet. I have adopted him and his cause. He's still a Pow/Mia and we, along with all the others want to bring him and the other Pow/Mia's home.
RAY, JAMES MICHAEL
Name: James Michael Ray
Rank/Branch: E3/US Army
Unit:
Date of Birth: 10 November 1949 (Cambridge MA)
Home City of Record: Woonsocket RI (family in CA)
Date of Loss: 18 March 1968
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 113409N 1080234E (AN775805)
Status (in 1973): Prisoner of War
Category: 1
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground
Other Personnel in Incident: John G. Dunn (Released POW)
Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 30 June 1990 from one or more of the
following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with
POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.
SYNOPSIS: On March 18, 1968, PFC James M. Ray and 1Lt. John G. Dunn were part of
a unit on a road clearing mission with Montagnard soldiers on Highway 20 in Lam
Dong Province, South Vietnam.
During the mission, both Ray and Dunn were captured by the Viet Cong and taken
to Cambodia for detention. Dunn was released in the general prisoner release
nearing the end of American involvement in Vietnam in 1973. Jimmy Ray did not
come home.
Ray, who had been wounded during his capture, was rotated within the "system" of
those POWs held in South Vietnam. He made escape attempts which infuriated his
captors and they beat him severely and confined him with chains. He was awarded
the Silver Star for gallantry for these escape attempts and resulting torture.
In April 1969, an American POW who escaped from the camp where Ray was being
held with other POWs reported that Jimmy was alive and one of the healthiest of
the POWs both mentally and physically. Jimmy was held apart from the other POWs,
because of his attempts to escape.
In the summer of 1969, Jimmy became ill with malaria and reportedly died in
November 1969 at a detention camp in the northern Tay Ninh Province/Cambodia
area. Although there are "statements" attesting to Jimmy Ray's death, many years
would pass before Jimmy's father would be able to trace and personally talk to
POWs held with Jimmy. NOT ONE saw him dead - even those whose "statements" were
in Jimmy's files!
PFC Ray's records are a tangle of inconsistencies. His death was "reported" when
there was no witness, and this report was later retracted. A medal was awarded
for gallantry in an escape occurring AFTER Jimmy was supposed to have died.
However, no verified proof of his death was ever received.
Jimmy's family feels there is a strong chance that he is alive today, but if he
is not, they know that the communist government of Vietnam certainly knows the
fate of PFC Jimmy Ray, who, in the words of one POW, "wanted more than anything
else to be free."
The Vietnamese state that Jimmy died on November 6, 1969, but have not produced
proof of his death or returned a body.
James M. Ray was promoted to the rank of Staff Sergeant during the period he was
a prisoner of war.
Please join the effort to bring Jimmy and all the other POW/MIA's home to their families and loved ones ...
Gunny, I want to help!
I want to make a difference!
 POW/MIA Remembrance
Lest We Forget ...
I don't pretend to be a "tree-hugger", nor am
I an "animal rights activist". But what I am is one
person of many concerned and confused about how
we (as one species on this beautiful world) seem bent
on her destruction. From clear-cutting eons-old
forests to the extinction of her wildlife, I don't see
enough concern in keeping what we have and being "smart"
in protecting what God gave us to care for.
Because of that, I'm finding many places on the
net who share those same concerns. I have also
"joined" a couple of those organizations on the Web
of people who are also concerned with where we are going.
The first of those is Sisterhood of the Wolf.
Visit their site and the pages of the other members.
It's a great place! :-)
Want more info? Interested in learning more?Check out
our new Web Ring!
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
or
World Wide Missing Children
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