Leaving an empty seat in tribute to POWs and MIAs
By Kevin Cullen
On this, the most partisan time of the year, here’s an idea we can all get-behind.
A few years ago, Joe D’Entremont saw an empty seat at a racetrack in Bristol, Tenn. It was left empty on purpose, a symbolic way to remember the 92,000 American service members who since World War I went missing in action or were prisoners of war who didn’t make it home.
D’Entremont — president of the Massachusetts Chapter 1 of Rolling Thunder®, a group dedicated to making the government accountable for POWs and MIAs, looked at the empty seat in Tennessee and said, “Why not here?”
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