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Article: Vet wins uphill battle on mountain memorial: Alaskan peak honors POWs, MIAs.(A)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 26, 1999
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Three flags are planted there, thousands of feet above the sparkling hulk of a glacier and the dense tapestry of spruce and aspen in south-central Alaska.
The flags flap in the cold wind: red, white and blue. And black and white.
It's a lonely and beautiful spot, once a nameless peak in the Chugach Mountains about 45 miles north of Anchorage.
Now, however, it has a name. This is Mount POW/MIA.
On Nov. 11, the 4,325-foot mountain was officially named to honor American prisoners of war and those missing in action, all because of the persistence of one former U.S. Marine.
John Morrissey, who was wounded three times in ...
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