POW MIA Museum in Jefferson Barracks

04/09/2026

02/24/2026

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12/07/2025

Remembering December 7th and the 2,403 Sailors, Marines, Soldiers, Airmen, and Civilians killed at Pearl Harbor 84 years ago today... 🇺🇸

11/23/2025

Thank you Hillsboro R-3 School District for your continued support.

11/11/2025

Never Forget 🇺🇸

09/27/2025

Thank you Air Force Sergeants Association Chapter 872, Scott Air Force Base, and JB POW-MIA Museum board members and volunteers.

09/27/2025

Our most heartfelt Thanks and Appreciation to the Students, Faculty, Staff, and Parents of Hillsboro Intermediate on their recent National POW-MIA Recognition Day 18 Hour Vigil held this past September 19th!

This is coming right on the heels of Hillsboro High School’s 5th Annual POW-MIA Remembrance Ceremony and Football Game held on September 5th.

The Jefferson Barracks POW-MIA Museum’s association with Hillsboro, a POW-MIA City(sm), and the Hillsboro R-3 School District, our first POW-MIA Campus(sm), is one of the things we are so very proud of. We are so much better having them as an important part of our mission and our story.

Thank You again, Hillsboro Intermediate!

09/19/2025

National POW-MIA Recognition Day proclaimed by the United States Congress in 1998.
Observance to honor those who were prisoners of war (POW) as well as those who are still missing in action (MIA).
Observed in the United States on the third Friday in September.
The POW-MIA flag
• 1971 - Mary Hoff, a military spouse and member of the National League of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, contacted a private company to request a flag to honor those missing in action or prisoners of war.
• Graphic artist and WWII veteran pilot, Newt Heisley, created the design.
• A black and white flag with a lone silhouette, a guard tower, and words “You are not forgotten.”
• 1990 - Officially recognized by the US Congress.
• Symbol of concern about United States military personnel taken as POW or listed as MIA.
Ways to Observe
• Fly the POW-MIA flag immediately below or adjacent to the USA flag
• Help sponsor or attend an event recognizing the day.
• Talk to a former POW or a family member of a POW or MIA. Write down the story you hear. Take photos or find photos of former POWs/MIAs. Submit your story / photos to a school or local paper.
• Visit a POW-MIA museum or military cemetery (in St. Louis both are located in Jefferson Barracks Park)
• Place POW-MIA flags or flowers on a POW grave site.
• Write the name of of former POW or MIA veteran on a yellow ribbon and tie it to the guard tower fence located at
the Jefferson Barracks POW-MIA Museum.
• Volunteer at a Veterans Affairs hospital or museum.
• Wear a commemorative bracelet with the name, rank, and loss date of the captured or missing military member.
• Display a single table and chair called the Fallen Comrades Table or the Missing Man Table.

09/17/2025

Hillsboro Intermediate’s POW-MIA Recognition Day Vigil will be conducted this Friday, September 19th (National POW-MIA Recognition Day), from 6:00am till midnight, in front of the school, 10478 MO-21 Bus., Hillsboro, MO 63050.

If you are in the neighborhood anytime from 6:00am till midnight, please drop by and show your support for the efforts the students, faculty, and staff undertake on behalf of our Veterans and their Families.

If you have any questions or would like to participate and help out, please contact Ms. Megan Mahue at 636-789-0000 ext. 3115.

Thank You!

Hawkstrong!

09/15/2025

Shop reopens for POW-MIA Recognition weekend, with net proceeds from sales to be donated to the museum. Please tap on link below

09/07/2025

09/07/2025

Thank You Hillsboro Hawks, Students, Faculty, Staff, Administrators, Parents, and City… for your amazing 5th Annual POW-MIA Remembrance Event held last Friday, September 5th, prior to the SLU High Jr. Billikens vs Hillsboro Hawks football game!

Your commitment to remembering the service and sacrifices of our Veterans and their Families while continuing on with the everyday business of life, learning, and community is truly inspiring!

At halftime of the SLU High/Hillsboro Hawks football game the Hillsboro cheerleaders passed the hat, or in this case a boot, throughout the stands and collected $556.00 for the Museum! Again, there’s just something special about Hillsboro.

Among those on hand for the Ceremony (and my apologies because I know I will be leaving out so many) were former POW U.S. Marine Sgt. Rocky Sickmann, held hostage by the Iranians for 444 days from Nov. 4, 1979 till Jan. 20, 1981... Larry Hasenbeck, brother of U.S. Army Sgt. Paul Hasenbeck, Missing in Action April 21, 1967 returning from a combat patrol in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam… Sandy and Bob Davis, Sandy is the widow of U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Roger Innes, Missing in Action Dec. 27, 1967 over North Vietnam… Mary Corey, niece of U.S. Marine Lt. Bernie Plassmeyer, Missing in Action Sept. 11, 1970 over the A Shau Valley near the Laotian/South Vietnamese border… George Blassie (and family), little brother of USAF Lt. Mike Blassie, Missing in Action May 11, 1972 over An Loc, South Vietnam and who for 14 years represented all of our Missing and Unaccounted For from the Vietnam War in the Vietnam War Tomb of the Unknown at Arlington… family members of former WWII POW USAAF SSGT. Alfred Kreutz, 381st Bomb Group, shot down November 6, 1944 on a bombing mission over Hamburg, Germany, and a Prisoner of War in Stalag Luft 4… and although he couldn’t be there, MIA/POW USAF Col. John Clark, shot down over North Vietnam on March 12, 1967 and a Prisoner of War of the North Vietnamese for 6 grueling years, was remembered as well.