MADISON, Wis. (WRN) — Legislation that could help identify Wisconsin’s Missing in Action will be reintroduced this session.
Tuesday was Veterans Day at the Capitol, and Jordan Tilleson with the Wisconsin VFW spoke about the importance of the University of Wisconsin Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project.
“But this is what’s important because mental health, when we talk about certain things, the UW MI Recovery project is about the soul of our veterans,” Tilleson said.
The volunteer group generally receives no state or federal funding, and searches for missing personnel as assigned by the Department of Defense.
“There are approximately 81,000 Americans who remain missing from World War 2, Korea and Vietnam. Roughly 1500 of those are from Wisconsin,” said Representative Chrstine Sinicki.
This will be the fourth session in which the Milwaukee Democrat has introduced the bill to provide annual funding for teams to search specifically for Wisconsin’s Missing in Action.