Dean Pogreba, a native of Three Forks, Montana, was born on March 16, 1922, and loved flying airplanes, especially single engine jets. He was a veteran of W.W. II and the Korean War, and during his country's third conflict his plane was shot down over the North Vietnam/Chinese border on October 5, 1965. Pogreba was listed as Missing in Action, and for thirty years his family and friends worked to resolve his fate. He is remembered not only as a name etched in granite on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., but also through the community's determination that future generations will remember him and all those who did not return.