{"id":89,"date":"2012-02-06T18:30:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T18:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2012-02-06T18:30:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T18:30:27","slug":"history-of-the-powmia-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/military-flags\/history-of-the-powmia-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the POW\/MIA Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"In_1971_\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1971 Mrs. Michael Hoff, an MIA wife and member of the National League of Families, saw the need for a symbol of our POW\/MIAs.\u00a0 Mrs. Hoff found Mr. Rivkees, Vice President of Annin &amp; company, who felt sympathetic and along with Annin&#8217;s advertising agency designed a \u00a0<a title=\"Custom Flags\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/Custom.htm\" target=\"_blank\">custom\u00a0flag<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 118px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"POW \/ MIA Flag\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flag-works.com\/American%2520Cowboy%2520Supply\/AAAFlags\/001\/08_44b.jpg?resize=108%2C68\" alt=\"POW\/MIA flag\" width=\"108\" height=\"68\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">POW\/MIA Flag<\/p><\/div>\n<p>to represent our missing men.\u00a0 After receiving the League&#8217;s approval the flags were manufactured for distribution. Other than &#8220;<a title=\"American Flags\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/american_flags.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Old Glory<\/a>&#8220;, the League&#8217;s <a title=\"POW \/ MIA Flag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/POW_MIA_flags.htm\" target=\"_blank\">POW\/MIA flag<\/a> is the only flag ever to fly over the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1971 Mrs. Michael Hoff, an MIA wife and member of the National League of Families, saw the need for a symbol of our POW\/MIAs.\u00a0 Mrs. Hoff found Mr. Rivkees, Vice President of Annin &amp; company, who felt sympathetic and along with Annin&#8217;s advertising agency designed a \u00a0custom\u00a0flag to represent our missing men.\u00a0 After receiving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[18,73,76,72,75,77,74],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wIlQ-1r","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}