Lowry to hold POW/MIA vigil

DENVER -- To commemorate National POW/MIA Recognition Day, military and civilian employees will hold a 24-hour Prisoner of War/Missing in Action vigil at the Air Reserve Personnel Center's Lowry flag pole beginning Thursday. 

Volunteers from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, 4th Manpower Requirements Squadron and the Air Reserve Personnel Center will open the event with a ceremony at 2:45 p.m. Thursday, when they set up a POW/MIA table. 

Immediately following the ceremony, they will start reading the names of more than 10,000 people listed as POW/MIA from the Cold War to current operations. The reading will continue over the 24-hour period. 

The vigil will conclude with a formal retreat ceremony at 3 p.m. Friday where they will lower the POW/MIA flag. There will be two military formations and one civilian formation.