POW/MIA Chair of Honor dedicated in Memorial Stadium (William Austin, Robert Fant, Samuel Vaughn)

Three former Vietnam prisoners of war, all Clemson University graduates, gathered under a light rain on Veterans Day Friday with a crowd of fellow veterans, alumni, community members and current Clemson ROTC cadets to dedicate a Prisoner of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) Chair of Honor in the east end of Memorial Stadium.

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