The city of Aurora honored National POW/MIA Recognition Day on Friday with a ceremony at Veterans Island Park.

The third annual ceremony, which included members of the Aurora Veterans Advisory Council, paid tribute to members of the American military who have been prisoners of war or who are still missing in action. Friday was also proclaimed as POW/MIA Recognition Day in the city by Mayor John Laesch.

Laesch said that POW/MIA Recognition Day and the ceremony in Aurora work to keep the “memories alive for all those who did not return, or in some instances did not return whole.”

The proclamation noted that more than 217,000 Americans have been prisoners of war in the last 100 years and that nearly 1,600 are still listed as missing from the Vietnam War, over 7,500 are still missing from t

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