Grubb also oversaw the creation of the famous "You Are Not Forgotten" POW/MIA flag that still flies in front of all U.S. Post Offices, many firehouses and police stations, all major U.S. Military installations as well as most veterans organization chapters in the United States.
[1][2] During the Vietnam war Grubb served as the League's liaison to the White House, the United Nations and the Paris Peace Talks.
[2] Evelyn Grubb was living in the Petersburg, Virginia area as an Air Force wife when her husband, Major Wilmer Newlin Grubb, was shot down over North Vietnam and became a prisoner of war (POW) in 1966,[2][3][5] and after frustrations with the U.S. government withholding information on the status of her husband and other POW and MIA soldiers and pilots, as well as the Pentagon's practice of pressuring affected families not to speak publicly about the status of their captured or missing loved ones, Evelyn Grubb co-founded the National League of Families with Air Force POW wife Mary Crowe, also living in Hampton at the time, and with Sybil Stockdale, a Navy pilot's wife living in Coronado, California, whose husband was also a POW.
[2] The Leagues purpose from the beginning was to bring pressure to bear on all governments involved in the conflict in order to improve treatment of POWs, and their families, and to bring resolution to the status of many missing in action (MIA) soldiers and pilots.
[6][7] The original design for the flag was created by the artist Newt Heisley for Annin Flagmakers after Mary Hoff, wife of MIA Lt.
[7] Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who met with Grubb many times during her tenure as the Leagues National Coordinator, wrote the foreword to the book.