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In 1971, Mrs. Michael Hoff, an MIA spouse and member of the Nationwide League of Families, acknowledged the necessity for an emblem of our POW/MIAs. Prompted by an article in the Jacksonville, Florida Times-Union, Mrs. Hoff contacted Norman Rivkees, Vice President of Annin & Company which had made a banner for the most recent member of the United Nations, the People's Republic of China, as part of their policy to provide flags to all United Nations members states. Mrs. Hoff discovered Mr. Rivkees very sympathetic to the POW/MIA difficulty, and he, along with Annin's advertising company, designed a flag to represent our missing men. Following League approval, the flags have been manufactured for distribution. On March 9, 1989, an official League flag, which flew over the White House on 1988 Nationwide POW/MIA Recognition Day, was installed within the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on account of laws passed overwhelmingly throughout the a centesimal Congress. In a demonstration of bipartisan Congressional help, the management of both Houses hosted the installation ceremony. The League's POW/MIA flag is the only flag ever displayed within the U.S. Capitol Rotunda the place it should stand as a strong image of nationwide commitment to America's POW/MIAs until the fullest doable accounting has been achieved for U.S. personnel nonetheless missing and unaccounted for from the Vietnam War. On August 10, 1990, the one hundred and first Congress passed U.S. Public Regulation a hundred and one-355, which recognized the League's POW/MIA flag and designated it "because the image of our Nation's concern and commitment to resolving as absolutely as attainable the fates of Americans still prisoner, missing and unaccounted for in Southeast Asia, thus ending the uncertainty for their families and the Nation". The importance of the League's POW/MIA flag lies in its continued visibility, a constant reminder of the plight of America's POW/MIAs. Apart from "Outdated Glory", the League's POW/MIA flag is the one flag ever to fly over the White Home, having been displayed on this place of honor on Nationwide POW/MIA Recognition Day since 1982. With passage of Part 1082 of the 1998 Protection Authorization Act through the first term of the one hundred and fifth Congress, the League's POW/MIA flag will fly each year on Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, National POW/MIA Recognition Day and Veterans Day on the grounds or in the public lobbies of main army installations as designated by the Secretary of the Defense, all Federal nationwide cemeteries, the nationwide Korean Struggle Veterans Memorial, the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the White House, the United States Postal Service post offices and at the official offices of the Secretaries of State, Protection and Veteran's Affairs, and Director of the Selective Service System.
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