GREAT FALLS — GREAT FALLS — Almost 81,000 Americans remain missing from wars and conflicts dating back to World War Two. More than 1,500 remain missing from the Vietnam war. Friday, September 19, is National Prisoner of War Missing in Action Recognition Day.

In Great Falls, a group of veterans are keeping the memory of Maj. Robert Vincent Willett, Jr. alive.

Tim McGonigal reports - watch the video: Air Force pilot MIA honored in Great Falls

“This monument was put here some 50 years ago by his friends,” said Frank Tuss, Commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4669 in Black Eagle.

Between the Missouri River and the playground at Odd Fellows Park in Great Falls stands a tribute to Willet. In the skies over Laos on April 17, 1969 , the recently-married Willett and Great Falls High

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