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Evelyn Grubb was the wife of an American Vietnam War Air Force pilot who became a prisoner of war, she was also a co-founder and then later served as the national coordinator of the National League of Families,〔"Evelyn Grubb, 74; Advocated Humane Treatment for POWs of Vietnam Era"Los Angeles Times Obituary, January 04, 2006, http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jan/04/local/me-grubb4〕 a nonprofit organization that worked on behalf of Vietnam-era Missing in Action (MIA) and Prisoner of War (POW) Families. Grubb also oversaw the creation of the famous "You Are Not Forgotten" POW/MIA flag that still flies in front of all U.S. Post Offices, many firehouses and police stations, all major U.S. Military installations as well as most veterans organization chapters in the United States.〔〔 During the Vietnam war Grubb served as the Leagues liaison to the White House, the United Nations and the Paris Peace Talks.〔〔 Grubb was also the co-author, along with Carol Jose, of the award-winning book "You Are Not Forgotten: A Family’s Quest for Truth and The Founding of the National League of Families" about her personal struggle as the wife of a prisoner of war, and about her experiences helping to found the National League of Families.〔 ==Husbands Capture / Founding of the National League of Families== Evelyn Grubb was living in the Petersburg, Virginia area as an Air Force wife when her husband, Major Wilmer Newlin Grubb, was shot down over North Vietnam and became a prisoner of war (POW) in 1966,〔〔〔Wainwright, Loudon; "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again - or doesn't", Life Magazine; (November 10, 1972).〕 and after frustrations with the U.S. government withholding information on the status of her husband and other POW and MIA soldiers and pilots, as well as the Pentagon's practice of pressuring affected families not to speak publicly about the status of their captured or missing loved ones, Evelyn Grubb co-founded the National League of Families with Air Force POW wife Mary Crowe, also living in Hampton at the time, and with Sybil Stockdale, a Navy pilot's wife living in Coronado, California, whose husband was also a POW.〔〔〔Stockdale, Jim and Sybil; ''In Love and War'', (Naval Institute Press, 1984).〕 Another major impetus for starting the organization was that Grubb's combat casualty benefits, as well as those of many other POW and MIA wives, were delayed due to a Pentagon policy of waiting to confirm that U.S. soldiers and pilots who had become POWs or MIAs were not deserters, which was causing POW and MIA families great financial hardship at the time.〔 At the time that her benefits were being withheld, Grubb had four children, including a newborn child.〔 Grubb was later instrumental in reversing this policy.〔 The Leagues purpose from the beginning was to bring pressure to bear on all governments involved in the conflict in order to improve treatment of prisoners of war (POWs), and their families, and to bring resolution to the status of many missing in action (MIA) soldiers and pilots.〔〔 The League continues to this day in this work.〔〔 After years of Evelyn Grubb's work on behalf of Vietnam POW and MIA families, the Government of North Vietnam announced that her husband had died years earlier in captivity, a fact that they had knowingly withheld for eight years.〔〔 Evelyn Grubb died of breast cancer in 2005.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Evelyn Grubb」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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