US SOLDIER MATT MAUPIN MISSING IN Bagdad STILL.Mother still has hope !

I CAUGHT THIS ARTICLE ON THE NET AND WANTED TO SHARE THIS FOR ANYOE THAT HAS FORGOTTON ABOUT THIS YOUNG MAN. I REMEMBER HIM ALL THE TIME AND I MYSELF HAVE NTO FORGOTTON AND WHEN I SAW THIS IT DREW MY ATTENTION. I THINK OF HIM OFTEN AND WHERE HE IS . I ONLY HOPE THAT ONE DAY HE WILL BE SET FREE ALIVE AND WELL. READ BELOW.






















Soldier's Mom Still Hopeful After Two Years

BATAVIA, Ohio (April 8) - Nearly 30,000 pictures of Matt Maupin are circulating around Iraq, a loving effort by his parents to locate the only U.S. soldier still listed as missing since his capture two years ago.
Carolyn Maupin steadfastly hopes that someday, someone will recognize Matt, and he will come home.
She refuses to consider the alternative.
"I honestly thought he'd be back by now," she said. "I didn't think it would take this long.
Pictures of Matt are placed inside the boxes of goodies sent to troops in Iraq by the Maupins' Yellow Ribbon Support Center - a storefront operation near the Sam's Club where Matt used to work.
"We put 10 pictures inside each box with a little note asking them to please help us find him, and also thanking them for defending our freedom," Maupin said.
Sgt. Keith Matthew Maupin is known as Matt because Keith is also his father's name. He was a 20-year-old private first class in the Army Reserves when he was captured April 9, 2004, when his fuel convoy, part of the 724th Transportation Co., was ambushed west of Baghdad.
A week later, Arab television network Al-Jazeera aired a videotape showing Maupin sitting on the floor surrounded by five masked men holding automatic rifles.
That June, Al-Jazeera aired another tape purporting to show a U.S. soldier being shot. But the dark, grainy tape showed only the back of the victim's head and did not show the actual shooting.
The Army ruled it was inconclusive whether the soldier in the second tape was Maupin, and he has been promoted twice since his capture.
After a routine review a year ago, the adjutant general approved an Army board's recommendation to continue Maupin's status as "missing-captured." That has not changed, and there are no plans for another review, said Maj. Nathan Banks, an Army spokesman in Washington.
President Bush has met with Keith and Carolyn Maupin on trips to nearby Cincinnati, and they have been briefed at the Pentagon about efforts to find their son.
The Maupins have helped get computers to soldiers in Iraq to give them access to e-mail and college courses, and they hope to raise $100,000 at a dinner-dance Sunday to fund scholarships in the name of area soldiers who have died in Iraq.
"They have a great deal of courage," said Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt, an avid supporter who lives in Loveland near the Maupins' hometown. "They've kept the candle burning for Matt; they're also keeping it burning for every member of the military."
Carolyn Maupin, 56, says she has changed a lot since her son's capture.
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Maupins hope to make $100,000 at fundraiser
The parents of Sgt. Matt Maupin, whose fate after being captured by Iraqi insurgents is still unknown, are hoping to raise $100,000 in scholarship money that will go to the schools attended by area soldiers killed in Iraq.
A dinner dance will be held on April 9 - the second anniversary of Maupin's capture after his convoy was hit by Iraqi insurgents - at the Oasis Country Club near Loveland.
By selling individual tickets for $30 each, $50 for couples and $300 for a table of 10, the Maupins hope to raise $100,000 in honor of 32 soldiers and Marines from Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana who lost their lives in Iraq.
"It's a lot of money, but we are determined to do this, to remember those who have given their lives," said Carolyn Maupin.
June Izzi-Bailey of Milford, a volunteer at the Yellow Ribbon Center in Eastgate and a friend of the Maupins, said the money raised will be divided into 32 shares, and each family of a local soldier or Marine lost in war will decide which school will receive the scholarship money.
. "We just want to honor them in a lasting way," Izzi-Bailey said.
Early Friday evening, the Maupins and about a dozen of their friends gathered at the center for the kickoff to the fundraising campaign.
They also packed pack boxes for the 101st Airborne Division unit of Izzi-Bailey's stepson, Sgt. Jonathan Bailey of Louisville.
He showed up with his wife, Ashley, and sons Cameron and Ryan to help pack the "goodie boxes" that will ultimately go to his fellow soldiers.
Bailey, who returns to Iraq in 10 days to finish the last half of his one-year deployment, said the soldiers appreciate the work the Maupins do in sending thousands of boxes and pieces of mail.
"You can't imagine what that means until you are over there," Bailey said.
At the Yellow Ribbon Center, every box that is packed and shipped to Iraq contains a package of cards bearing Maupin's picture. Bailey said many soldiers carry pictures of the Union Township soldier with them.
The Yellow Ribbon Center also puts posters with pictures of Maupin inside the packages. The posters have a detailed description of Maupin in English and Farsi, along with phone numbers in Iraq that Iraqi citizens can call if they have information about Maupin's fate.
"They had been putting out posters with a very dark picture of Matt that didn't look much like him," said Carolyn Maupin. "We wanted to send a poster with better pictures."
The Maupins said donations to the April 9 Scholarship Fund can be made at any Fifth Third Bank branch. For dinner dance information, call the Yellow Ribbon Support Center at (513) 752-4310.