[November 15, 2011]  It can be a sobering moment when one gazes upon a table set for one, the glass inverted, the chair empty. As veterans came home from their prospective wars and conflicts, they left comrades behind.

But being lost doesn't mean being forgotten. Monday at the Bonanza restaurant in Lincoln, while veterans enjoyed a meal, a single table stood commemorating our MIAs and POWs who have yet to come home.

The framed document on the table expresses what we should all do… remember. Here are just a few of the brave soldiers who have helped to secure the freedom of all Americans.

Pictures by Nila Smith

A patron pauses at the MIA/POW table.

A candle burns, "symbolizing the upward reach of their unconquered spirit."

Seated at left is Harold Jeckel, aKorean War veteran of the 7th Division of the 8th Army.

World War II veteran Leonard "Whimpy"  Lehner

Fred Detmers served during the Korean War, stationed with the European Command in Germany with the 7th Army.

Leonard Lehner as a young sailor

Korea veteran Bob Shanle

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