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Raising the funds to turn this issue around When we got the telegrams so many years
ago, most families of MIAs assumed that our government would do all that it
could to find out what happened to our missing loved ones. We were wrong.
Now, almost 50-years later, we are still looking for answers. In
the last 10 years, a collective effort has moved the Korean and Cold War
POW/MIA issue from relative obscurity to a place at the table, so to speak.
In the process we have learned that real progress, in the form of real
answers, is going to take funding. The Coalition has set three
goals to help move the families’ accounting effort to the next level. The
first goal is to raise money to hire a professional fund raiser/grant writer.
This individual will then plan and implement a campaign to raise funds that
will support the second and third goals. The second goal is to hire a
representative in Washington, D.C. This individual will keep abreast of
issues critical to the accounting effort, and educate the government, media
and American public on those issues. The third goal is to hire a
professional researcher. The story of missing American servicemen lies untold
in the four corners of the world. We cannot leave collection and analysis
entirely to the government. We need the information ourselves, so we can
frame the questions that will help drive the accounting effort. For nearly 50
years the government let the fate of our loved ones lie unresolved. The
progress we have seen in the last 10 years is, in large part, the result of a
determined effort by a relatively small group of people, nearly all of whom
have worked without funding to support the issue. To move to the next level
and find the answers we’re all looking for, we’re going to need money.
Otherwise, both our work and the accounting effort might well fizzle to an
end. We ask those who can to please
contribute to the Coalition’s first goal: hiring a fund raiser/grant writer.
The Coalition is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Contributions are tax
deductible. Please print, complete, and mail
the form below along with your Contribution to: Elinor Hull Coalition of Families Rt. 11-D, Box 251 Alton Bay, NH 03810
Application for Membership and/or Contributors
Coalition
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