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Song Now Playing
"Stars &
Stripes & The Eagle Flies"
"Doc Dentice"
Telling
the crowd about our POW-MIA'S
WISCONSIN POW-MIA
LAUNCH FOUNDER
Did You Find
A 2009 POW-MIA Balloon?
Please let
us know where!
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The Launchbook
2010
13th Annual
Wisconsin
National
POW-MIA Balloon Launch
WISCONSIN POW-MIA BALLOON LAUNCH
Many Thanks to Dave Ryba
& his Crew
VETERANS MEDIA SERVICE
They had a 5 person filming
crew doing pictures at the Bunker/DMZ
THANK YOU Dick & Jane
Glaser Dennis L Flancher
Check
Out All The 2009 Memorial Day
Bunker/DMZ
Remembrance Ride & Launch Pictures
Courtesy of Veterans Media
Services
The 2009 Launch will air
on Cable this summer.
THANK YOU
WMIL FM-106-Country
Radio
Karen-Scott-Radar
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Launch broadcasted
live on Friday May 22, 2009
Live Broadcast
on Memorial Day from the Todd Post
Wisconsin POW-MIA
Launch airing live between 6 & 10am
THANKS WTMJ TV FOR THE NEWS BROADCAST
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Doc Signals
12th Annual POW-MIA Balloon Release
All Eyes On The POW-MIA Balloons
Lifting Off
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Images
On Rock
By Jeanne Kordus
One of a kind rock paintings-Your
pictures or design on rock
2009 Thank
You To
Jeanne Kordus-Images
On Rock
Wisconsin Bingo &
Supply
Welders Supply Company
/ Pete Mueller
George / Lori Klingspahn
John Bohn & Son-Pictures
& Help
Windlake Pirates Boat
Club
VFW
Post 8343
Scott Fitzgerald-Don Kordus-Jim
Mount-Pat Jacobson-Wayne Cisewski
Joe/Pat Razdik-Henry Zortman-Bill/Robin
THANKS TO THE
BUNKER/DMZ
FOR HOSTING THE 12th ANNUAL LAUNCH
DMZ/MC"Memorial
Day Remembrance Ride"
All Riders
Welcome
9:30am Registration-10:30am
Riders Depart
$5 a Bike
Donation
Final Destination:
The Bunker/DMZ grounds
Proceeds
go to Union Grove Vets Home
The Bunker
Veterans Ceremonies at 2:45pm
"Moment
of Remembrance" Pause at 3pm
VFW Post
8343-11038 & VVA 921 & DMZ/MC
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Bill-Jason-Doc & John
Some of the 2009 POW-MIA Balloon Launch Crew
Some came from Iowa & Minnesota
Many from Oshkosh-Sheboygan-Racine-Kenosha-Janesville
and points beyond..
Wisconsin
National POW-MIA Balloon Launch-2008
11th
Annual Remembrance Goes On
1st
ever at the Bunker/DMZ
BUNKER/DMZ
Jeff "Doc" Dentice has
put together the largest & longest running
POW/MIA Balloon Launch
in POW/MIA Freedom Fighter's
history and the Nation!
Join him and the Crew
on Memorial Day 2009 for the 12th annual Wisconsin POW/MIA Balloon Launch!
Thanks goes to the Region
4 UAW Vets for being there to make the launch happen.
Thanks to VFW Post 8343
members that helped out with the launch.
It was 85 degrees and
humid when the crew started setup at 9am
Temps in the chute were
reaching 120 degrees
But by 2:30pm the launch
was ready to go.............
Doc Dentice & the Launch
Crew will host the
12th Annual
Wisconsin National POW-MIA
Launch on Memorial Day 2009.
They will launch
5000
POW-MIA Balloons representing all Wars.
Doc and his Crew completed
the 10th Wisconsin National Launch on Milwaukee's lakefront in 2007
The original site below
will continue on-line, and the stories and videos are there.
Wisconsin
National POW-MIA Balloon Launch Site
The Launch site has been
moved to Rochester, Wisconsin
THANKS TO THE
BUNKER/DMZ
FOR HOSTING THE 11TH ANNUAL LAUNCH
Check out
the Wisconsin POW-MIA Balloon Launch Video
"FREEDOM IS NOT FREE"
THIS EAGLE WILL NEVER FLY FREE
UNTIL
ALL OUR POW-MIAS ARE ARE
BACK HOME!
You too can personally adopt a POW/MIA
Click on the bracelet above to adopt a POW/MIA
Crowd responds to the ceremonies.......
5,000 BALLOONS
READY TO BE RELEASED
WHEN ONE AMERICAN IS NOT
WORTH
THE EFFORT TO BE FOUND,
WE AS AMERICANS HAVE LOST!
YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN
HONOR AND SACRIFICE
America, look into your
heart and ask yourself why.
Why do you turn your back
on this "great" nation's lost warriors?
How do you think this
nation became so great?
They gave to you, what
they no longer have, FREEDOM!
How can you continue to
ignore them, year after year?
They are your brothers,
who have too long been left alone and forgotten!
So, look into YOUR heart,
and ask yourself, WHY?
If that were you, what
would you want your country to do?
From Jen &
the POW-MIA Freedom Fighters
The POW-MIA
National Balloon Launch Story
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This was back in the early
days of the POW/MIA Freedom Fighters and we were trying to
come up with any kind of
idea toget folks inspired and keep the flame under the issue.
I had heard about a school
that did a balloon launch in memory
of Vets and thought we could
do one similar for POW/MIA's.
We were running a large POW/MIA
mailing list at that time with another organization and discussing
all this, when Col. Guy wrote
me privately, angrier than heck. We need to shake folks up!"
He had told me that he felt
certain there was a chance that if just 1 (one) balloon could get to a
living POW
and give them hope that they
were not forgotten and
we were doing something about
it, then anything we could do to make that happen would be worth it.
It was like, this was his
last big chance to be a
part of something that he
believed in 100% that could make a difference. "We're not going
to leave
them behind, Jen. We're
going to let them know
we are doing something.
Do it. Do it for all of them that want to come home.
Do it for all the families
still waiting for answers."
And I promised him I would.
And we did.
Our first few years were huge
successes. All over the world POW/MIA Freedom Fighters Balloon Launches
were held.
But as you know, without
committed people staying committed, some of the launches began falling
by the wayside.
But the story is geting out
and new launches are beginning.
However,
it's a whole other story for Wisconsin!
Doc, with you and your family
and all your friends help and even Milwaukee itself,
your launches have most definately
been our greatest success story.
"Doc", you stayed stong!
You hung in there!
You put together a great
team, got the businesses involved, made it a citywide event.
It was wonderful! You
Launch Crew has continued to keep the flame burning,
continue to inspire, continue
to remind us all that
we have a job to do and it
isn't done until all our men and women are home.
When one thinks of the POW/MIA
Freedom Fighters Balloon Launch, they think of
Wisconsin, because you "Doc"
made it
happen and put the event
in the chronicles of history!
Wishing you all the best
at your New Launch location in Rochester, Wisconsin!
GOOD LUCK WITH THE 12th
ANNUAL LAUNCH IN 2009
Thank you for all you do
and continue to do Doc!
God Bless!
Jen
Jeff
Doc Dentice
National
Alliance Of Families
For
the Return of America's Missing Servicemen
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL-SENTINEL
Memorial Day 2005
Doc Dentice & Crew
launched 20,000 balloons
Largest Launch ever held
in the US
The 10th Anniversary Launch
in 2007
25,000 balloons were released
Largest ever in the USA
Last Launch on Milwaukee's
lakefront
WISCONSIN POW-MIA LAUNCH 2007 PICTURES
Wisconsin
POW-MIA Launch Video
Launch
Video-Missing Man Table Ceremony
VISIT DOC'S SITES BELOW
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