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Highway 26 In Oregon To Be Dedicated As POW/MIA Highway

Highway 26 from Seaside to the Idaho Border is being dedicated today as a POW-MIA Highway. This is the first highway of its kind in the United States. Bend Heroes Foundation chairman Dick Tobiason says signs along Highway 26 will honor Oregon’s 902 POW’s and 1-thousand veterans who are still MIA. He says there will be a special ceremony at 10-this morning in and another ceremony at 2-this afternoon in Prineville. Tobiason says there’s also a special ceremony starting at 7-this morning in Bend at the memorial in Brooks Park. That event will honor Bend’s 20 POW’s 15 MIA’s and 2 MIA’s whose remains have been recovered.

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