Eight Iowa State alumni are among the 2,146 Americans listed by the armed forces of as prisoners of war or missing in action.

Today is POW/MIA Recognition Day. The Arnold Air Society, which is sponsored by the Air Force ROTC, is making sure members of the ISU community do not forget those who have not returned home.

The Arnold Air Society will be selling POW/MIA bracelets in Gold Star Hall at the Memorial Union. The bracelets carry the names, ranks, date last seen, and service of POWs and MIAs, and the money will be used in the effort to recover POWs and MIAs.

Sharon Evans, vice commander of the Arnold Air Society, said, “They are one of the few articles that they authorize to be worn with uniforms, and they wear them all the time to remember.”

Today at the State Capitol’s War Memorial at 9 a.m., cadets from Arnold Air Society and the Navy ROTC will carry two flags for each group, a U.S. flag and a POW/MIA flag, while they run through downtown Des Moines.

They will then head north on U.S. Highway 69 to Ames. The runners, who are in groups of six, will alternate turns, Evans said, with the help of a couple vans for resting runners.

The runners will loop around the ISU campus until 3 p.m. when four F-16 fighter planes from the Iowa Air National Guard will perform a fly-by over the campanile in missing man formation.

The four planes will fly in a v-formation, one will pull away and fly away from the other three, Evans said.

“It’s basically called a missing man formation because the formation is missing one of its members, and it’s not a full formation. It’s also to symbolize the missing and those killed in war.”

Bruce A. Yungclas, a POW in Japan from May through September 1945, will be the guest speaker at the F-16 fly-by ceremony.