Jerry Kiley

Jerry Kiley has been a key figure in the battle for U.S. POWs and MIAs and other U.S. veteran issues since 1983. He has served in a leadership role in a wide range of veterans' activities, from seminars and national meetings to protest demonstrations.
Kiley is proud of his fourteen months' service in a U.S. Army communications center in support of combat troops in Vietnam. Thirty two years after the end of the war he continues support of those who came home from an unpopular war to an unappreciative nation, as well those who were left behind. He has also worked diligently in exposing human rights violations and religious persecutions of the Vietnamese people by their own government, one of the most brutal and repressive communist regimes in the world today.

For three years Kiley was Communications Director for the National Vietnam Veterans Coalition and later served as vice-chair of the organization for an additional three years. He also served in board positions for "The Last Firebase", "Veterans of the Vietnam War" and "Homecoming II Project", each dedicated to obtaining freedom for U.S. prisoners of war who remained in captivity in Southeast Asia after the end of the war.

Kiley learned his take-no-prisoners style and his tenacity while growing up in the Bronx and attending Catholic high school in Harlem. He received national attention when he confronted a college basketball player on court by holding an American Flag in front of her after her refusal to face the Flag during the playing of the National Anthem.

He currently holds a management position with forty years' service for a multi-billion dollar New York company, in which capacity he served a term as president of a Northeastern Industry professional association.