This is no ordinary geocaching trading item!

E4 SP6 Philip R. Shafer (Grand Jct. Colorado) [MIA VietNam] is a POW/MIA Geocoin Travel Bug, traveling from geocache to geocache on a very specific mission.

If you do not intend to log your visit on the Geocaching.com web site, please DO NOT TAKE THIS ITEM. Its travels and its progress requires you to log that it is being taken from this geocache. You will also need to log when you place it in another geocache. It's easy!

If you are willing to log your part of this Trackable's journey and place it in another geocache as soon as possible (after you log your find), grab it from this geocache.

My Current Goal:

When I first came in the military back in 1988 it was customary to buy a POW/MIA bracelet with the name of a POW/MIA you could relate to on it. SP6 Philip Shafer was born in Grand Junction Colorado, the same town I was born in. He was listed as MIA a little more than a year before I was born though, April 19. 1968. I haven't been back to Grand Junction in quite a long time and don't even know if there is anyone still there related to him. But I've had that bracelet for a little more than 18yrs now and it's visited every continent of this planet save Antarctica. I'd like to think this coin could do the same if people took a moment to thin of those POW/MIA's and remember as they deserve to be remembered... Post up those pictures, we'd all love to see where this coin travels to and who is spending time with it.