POW advocate, Lynn O’Shea, passes
The Stars & Stripes reports that the POW/MIA community has lost a tireless advocate with the passing of Lynn O’Shea on December 5th. Unlike many of the folks who work to improve the government’s accounting of missing US troops, O’Shea wasn’t related to any of the folks who were unaccounted for during the Vietnam War;
She told Stars and Stripes last year that she got involved in the movement because of the name on the POW/MIA bracelet that she wore — John Jakovac. The Army staff sergeant went missing in May 1967 while on a reconnaissance patrol in South Vietnam. His remains were recovered in 1994.
After receiving little information from the government on Jakovac’s case, O’Shea undertook her own research, which led her to work with the National Alliance of Families. She had been scouring government documents and researching cases for families ever since.
Category: We Remember
Respect to you Ma’am and may you rest easy knowing all you helped.
Rest well and thank you for a job well done.
RIP Ma’am and a sincere thanks for all you did.
You did a good job, Ms. O’Shea. Rest in Peace.
Ditto…
Many thanks, Ma’am. Rest in Peace.
She did a splendid job while she was able to. It’s sad to see someone like this pass on. She’ll be missed.
RIP. . . . .
Rest in peace, ma’am.
Outstanding work by an amazing woman, Rest In Peace dear lady…you will be sorely missed.
God Bless….rest easy.
Bless you, Miss Lynn. Thank you for caring, when so many didn’t. I’ll be seein’ ya.
Bless her for all she has done, and may she find peace.
Thanks to her and her loved ones for all their sacrifices.
And as she passes the Gates of Heaven she has the color guard of every last POW/MIA that has passed before her.
They are standing at attention, the colors displayed proudly and every last one of them salutes her as she passes them.
If there are tears in Heaven, they will be tears of joy of the families present and accounted for as she goes to the just rewards for her tireless life of toil on this planet as she brought hope to all of those families that she touched.
She may not be a Veteran or related to any of the men she searched for but for her the salutes are for her rank as a General in God’s army of those he chose to serve their country for better, or, for worse such as the case may be.
The graceful hand of God is there to welcome her to his kingdom.
I salute her, the rest of those she worked with and all those families that lost someone that still search ….
rest well Ma’am 🙁