Reply By Laura Cassels, Florida Phoenix 60,000 Americans, including Another 2,338, including 54 Floridians, are still listed as missing in action, according to national military archives. Through 1976, nearly 5 million Americans bought bracelets bearing the names of servicemen and servicewomen who were taken prisoner or missing in action, according to the National League of POW-MIA Families. The bracelet campaign and its proceeds raised national awareness about POWs and MIAs and provided assistance to their families. A giant replica of a POW-MIA bracelet stands at USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile. Credit: Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 96This year, Vietnam veterans in North Florida want to build at their expense a monument on state property to the POW-MIA bracelet campaign and the troops it held in remembrance.