Well, you are not forgotten.

That's a phrase used to honor the Americans who served their country and became prisoners of war, or are missing in action.

Last Friday, September 18th, was P.O.W.

in my a recognition day, and Kentuckians came together to recognize locals who never returned home.

Why am I going home?

Captain Calvin Kenneth, parents.

The United States Marine Corps, Korea missing in action July 3rd.

Birthdays and holidays passed.

And for families still waiting for answers that wait can last a lifetime.

Today, more than 80,000 Americans remain unaccounted for from conflicts dating back to World War Two.

Started a few years ago, the Woodford County Library started this program to honor P and MIAs of Woodford County, including Midway and Rosales.

And it's just a great way to remember the things that are really important.

Sometimes I think we kind of think of that as very distant.

You know, these were people in other states or other cities, but they were right here among us, many, many years ago.

They were brothers, husbands, sons, daughters, mothers.

They were, you know, important members of their community who went off to war and they never made it back.

Whether they were held prisoner and they didn't make it back or whether they were held prisoner or never did make it back or whether they were missing in action.

And we don't we still don't know where exactly they were.

It just reminds us of an incredible sacrifice people made.

And the sadness their families feel about that lack of closure, about what actually happened to them.

So we do this so that we never forget.

And so we mean those four words, they talk about it, you know, you are not forgotten.

If we don't tell these stories, if we don't remind Americans the the sacrifice that is necessary to maintain our freedom to fight tyranny.

Around the world, Those those stories get lost.

And the whole purpose of our republic and why we were founded.

It's important that we tell those stories.

We honor.

We let people understand the sacrifices, the tremendous, perseverance, sense of duty and honor that these service members that, in particular, the ones that were taken captive and endured in the head as P.O.W.

was and the tremendous, hardships that they are endured.

And then, of course, many of them died either in captivity or, in battle.

And the remains were never recovered.

So their families have nothing more than a cold granite monument to remember them by.

We are still looking.

All these years later.

Americans are still working to find them, bring them home and give their families answers.

And that brings us back to the four simple words on the P.O.W.

am I flag.

You are not forgotten.

Perhaps those words aren't simply a statement.

They're promise.

And today, here at home in midway, we have a small part in keeping that promise.

And the father of a good friend of mine, I've gotten to know him.

The U.S.

Department of Defense continues to look for missing servicemen and women around the world.