Evelyn Grubb

Evelyn Fowler Grubb (August 9, 1931 – December 28, 2005) was the wife of an American Vietnam War Air Force pilot who became a prisoner of war, she was also a co-founder and then later served as the national coordinator of the National League of Families, a nonprofit organization that worked on behalf of Vietnam-era Missing in Action (MIA) and Prisoner of War (POW) Families. 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.

During the Vietnam war Grubb served as the Leagues liaison to the White House, the United Nations and the Paris Peace Talks.

Grubb was also the co-author, along with Carol Jose, of the award-winning book "You Are Not Forgotten: A Family’s Quest for Truth and The Founding of the National League of Families" about her personal struggle as the wife of a prisoner of war, and about her experiences helping to found the National League of Families.

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, 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 , a Navy pilot's wife living in Coronado, California, whose husband was also a POW.

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