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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_War_Medal
Prisoner of War Medal
The Prisoner of War Medal is a military award of the United States armed forces which was authorized by Congress and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on 8 November 1985. The United States Code citation for the POW Medal statute is 10 U.S.C. § 1128.
The Prisoner of War Medal may be awarded to any person who was a prisoner of war after April 5, 1917, (the date of the United States entry into World War I was the 6th). It is awarded to any person who was taken prisoner or held captive while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States; while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing Armed Force; or while serving with friendly forces engaged in armed conflict against an opposing Armed Force in which the United States is not a belligerent party. As of an amendment to Title 10 of the United States Code in 1989, the medal is also awarded for captivity by foreign armed forces that are hostile to the United States, under circumstances which the Secretary concerned finds to have been comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict. The person's conduct, while in captivity, must have been honorable. This medal may be awarded posthumously to the surviving next of kin of the recipient.
http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/medals/pow
Department of Defense
United States of America
DPMO
Defense Prisoner of War
Missing Personnel Office
Prisoner of War Medal
Instituted: 1985
Dates: All
Devices: (Silver Star, Bronze Star)
Notes: Gold and Silver Star attachments apply only to USN, USMC and USCG. Bronze and Silver Oak Leaf attachments apply only to Army and USAF.
Eligibility: The POW Medal is authorized by Public Law 99-145 (Nov. 8, 1985), as amended by Public Law 101-89 (Nov. 29, 1989), and codified at section 1128, title 10, United States Code. The POW Medal is authorized for any person who, while serving in any capacity with the U.S. Armed Forces, was taken prisoner and held captive after April 5, 1917. The POW Medal is to be issued only to those U.S. military personnel and other personnel granted credible U.S. military service who were taken prisoner and held captive:
(1) while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States;
(2) while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force;
(3) while serving with friendly forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing force in which the United States is not a belligerent party; or
(4) by foreign armed forces that are hostile to the United States, under circumstances which the Secretary concerned finds to have been comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict.
Think about my "memories" of her apartment I am convinced those "memories" are of the small condominium I think I owned near Columbia South Carolina. I remember wearing a new track suit when I went over to her apartment one time. At first I wanted to say that she gave it to me for Christmas but I think it was something Tracie gave me for the last Christmas, which was sometime earlier, although the one I wore wasn't so garish. I think about that everytime I see that scene in the 1998 film "U.S. Marshals." She worked with the woman named Charitha who had the son named Kerry. Liz resembled in a great deal the woman who "Jean-Luc Picard" was married to when he was knocked unconscious by that space probe in the 1992 episode "The Inner Light" of the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" television series.
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This was my favorite track from Mike and The Mechanics. I "remember" sitting there in Liz
apartment talking about this band and she wrote down their name because she had forgotten about them.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light_%28TNG_episode%29
Airdate June 1, 1992
"The Inner Light" is an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the penultimate episode of its fifth season.
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
The Enterprise-D is scanned by a primitive space probe left behind by the people of Kataan, a long-dead world, whose sun went nova a thousand years or so prior. When the ship is scanned, Picard is targeted and is rendered unconscious. During the twenty-five minutes he spends unconscious on the bridge, he lives for roughly forty full years in a simulated lifetime on the doomed world as an ironweaver, Kamin, in the village of Ressik. He has a loving wife, Eline, friends, eventually has children, then a grandchild, and a place in the community, all while watching the planet slowly meet its fate.
Some time after Eline dies, his scientifically-minded daughter Meribor takes him and his grandson to watch the launch of a probe, which he knew nothing about. Then Meribor reveals that he has already seen it, and his long-dead friend Batai appears to explain more, then Eline, alive and in her prime again, calls him "my love" and explains the purpose of the probe. That is, to preserve the memory of the people and culture which once existed on the planet a thousand years before Picard's time by encoding the memories of a prominent citizen in the culture onto the probe, which will transfer that knowledge into someone else and thus keep their history alive. Once he awakens he takes some time to adjust back to life on the Enterprise after his apparent lifetime as Kamin... he has just spent forty-some years in twenty-five minutes.
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