Local POW/MIA group heads to Montana to welcome home missing service member

Captain Robert E. Holton, had been missing since 1969. But during the annual meeting of the National League of POW*MIA Families in Washington DC, Holton’s family received some long awaited news. Holton’s remains would finally be coming back home to Montana.To help welcome the fallen solider home, members of the Pocatello POW*MIA group headed to Montana to meet the plane carrying Holton. “His family has waited a long time with ambiguity and not knowing what happened to him and now they finally have an answer, so we are just going up there to be there to support his family and welcome him home,” commented Nicki Chopski, the assistant director of the Pocatello POW*MIA Awareness Association.

Dawn Williams, the sales director of the Pocatello POW*MIA Association, said meeting the family members of a fallen solider can be very emotional.“When we started meeting the family members, the wives and the sisters, of these missing soldiers, it strikes a cord of ‘this is real’ this is somebody’s, it is not just abstract,” said Dawn.

The Pocatello POW*MIA Association said when they arrived in Montana on Friday, people lined the street, waiting to welcome Holton home. Along with close to 100 motorcyclists from the Montana and Pocatello POW*MIA Association.