Participants in the 2007 POW/MIA Symposium included two former prisoners of war from Vietnam: Commander Porter Halyburton, USN (Ret.) and Colonel Fred Cherry, USAF (Ret.), America's first African American POW of the war. Halyburton and Cherry were cell mates in the Hanoi Hilton and wrote about their experience in Two Souls Indivisible which documents the genesis of their strong friendship.

The 2007 program also featured Captain Luther H. Smith, USAF (Ret.), a P-51 Mustang fighter pilot from the famed Tuskegee Airmen. He was shot down over Yugoslavia on his 133rd mission on Oct. 13, 1944 and held as a POW by the Germans until May 1945.