International House of Pancakes, known as IHOP, in South Portland, recently donated $2,000 to the Prisoner of War/ Missing in Action Veterans monument to be constructed at the site of the Southern Maine Veterans Cemetery in Springvale.
The Southern Maine Veterans Memorial Cemetery Association has been raising funds to build a monument to the military personnel who have not returned home, and may never return home no matter how sophisticated the technology for identification becomes.
Many soldiers, airmen, sailors, nurses, merchant mariners and others are missing, totaling some 91,000.00 people since World War I.
The monument will honor those whose families have never had closure after many of hardship, worry and anticipation of notification of their loved ones’ remains.
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