POW/MIA Seats On Display In Sheridan County

Those members of the US Armed Forces who either never returned home or are still missing, are being remembered in a new way in Sheridan County.

Several seats dedicated to those who are Prisoners Of War or Missing In Action (POW/MIA) have been placed in Sheridan County, courtesy of the Sheridan County Semiquincentennial Committee.

The seats are only in Sheridan County and were made locally through Craftco.

Shawn Parker is the Executive Director of Sheridan County Travel and Tourism and a member of the committee.

He says there are about 9 seats in the county and are in areas where they can be seen and understood easily.

“We wanted these to be in places where a lot of our community gathers and celebrates youth and sport of course, so the idea was to get them into very publicly visible places where we can all be reminded of the sacrifice that soldiers have made.”

Among the locations of the chairs include sporting events at Sheridan, Big Horn and Tongue River High Schools.

The committee received its funding from the Wyoming Semiquincentennial Grant Program, which was created by the Wyoming Legislature.

Funds were distributed statewide via Governor Mark Gordon through a review process.