<p>Here is a great story about a woman finding the person whose name was on her bracelet and sending it to him. I had forgotten all about those bracelets. Did you have one?</p>
<p>[Bracelet</a> links woman, Vietnam vet - Toledo Blade](<a href=“Bracelet links woman, Vietnam vet | The Blade”>Bracelet links woman, Vietnam vet | The Blade)</p>
<p>I didn’t but I can remember my dad having one many, many years ago. I wonder if the name on his bracelet was ever found.</p>
<p>My mom had one. I have no idea if she still has it. I was young when she first got it and can remember that it mostly sat out on her dresser, so I asked about it. I don’t recall her actually wearing it though.</p>
<p>My sister had one. I have no idea whatever happened to it though.</p>
<p>I had one in junior high, i did not take it off until my soldier came home after the war & I mailed it to him.
Don’t remember his name though.
:(</p>
<p>CC advertises to the left<<<<<< memorial bracelets.com. I wear one, never take it off. Had a POW one as did my sister, when I was a child. We wore ours for over 7 years. Never, ever took it off, til them came home. She was able to meet hers, we waited for him on the tarmac. He was prematurely gray, really stuck in my memory after all these years. I was able to meet my POWs family when his remains were finally sent home. We both still have our bracelets.</p>
<p>I wear my memorial bracelet all day every day. Never take it off. My young man was KIA 3/24/03 in Iraqi Freedom, he has the same name as my younger son. </p>
<p>There is some mommy out there, without her boy, so my boy could follow his dreams. </p>
<p>I will be eternally grateful.</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>I had one, too, but I don’t know what happened to it, nor the man whose name was engraved on it. How did you find out they came home?</p>
<p>We were a military family, so dad and mom knew the families. My father was one of the lucky ones to come home from his tours.</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>We too were a military family. My father gave me one when I was nine. My POW was MIA. </p>
<p>He and I share the same name. He was a naval aviator.</p>
<p>He was 26 when his plane went missing in January 1968. In 1999 his flight bag was discovered in a war museum in Hanoi. Further investigation led to the eventual recovery of his and his co-pilot’s remains. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in 2000, section 66.</p>
<p>An insignia was added to the right of his name on the Vietnam Memorial Wall signifying his return.</p>
<p>I wore the bracelet until a crack appeared this year from wear and tear and I have visited the Wall numerous times since it was erected. This year was the first time I viewed his marker at Arlington.</p>
<p>I took my niece to pay our respects at Arlington and made a rubbing of his name from the Wall this past spring. </p>
<p>I’ve kept the bracelet to remind myself and teach the next generation–In this life, in our family, no one gets left behind.</p>
<p>OP. Thanks for posting this question.</p>
<p>I had one - a Lt. Commander in the Navy, who was actually a POW in China. In 1973, my family visited friends in Colorado, and I happened to see a news article about his release. My mother called his wife and spoke to her a bit (I was way too shy to do that).</p>
<p>I had one. I wore it continually until he was released in 1973. Then I broke the bracelet, feeling that the act was symbolic. I wish now I’d kept it.</p>
<p>I wore one, and still have it. I don’t know what happened to my solider, but I would like to.</p>
<p>I wear mine on Memorial Day. One day while I happened to be home from college way back in the day, there was a story in the newspaper about his wife having him declared deceased so that she could move on with her life. The bodies of his crew members were found, but his never was recovered.</p>
<p>I wore one. I also remember having a sociology professor in college who said those of us wearing POW bracelets were supporting terrorists/murderers. I remember feeling shocked and totally dismayed at what this man was saying. </p>
<p>It was a very divisive time.</p>
<p>There are some VERY young posters on this thread! What do you mean, YOUR MOTHER had one ?!?</p>
<p>Shoot, POW bracelets were quite the thing when I was in middle school/early high school! It was a progressive, democratic, upscale area in Northern California - and yes, we would have been dismayed by being called supporters of terrorists/murderers.</p>
<p>I had one and wore it for several years but don’t know what happened to it or if my person was found. I feel bad about that now.</p>
<p>I had one. I remember his name exactly. I wore it non-stop until the POWs came home; I couldn’t find his name on lists, but I did stop wearing it then. I was in junior high and high school at the time.</p>
<p>Yay internets! I just googled and he came home in 73.</p>
<p>Oh, sad! he died of presumed effects of Agent Orange in '86.</p>
<p>I’m 48, and my mother and I both had them, so I’m kind of puzzled by the disbelief that a poster’s mother would have had them - why wouldn’t she? We wore them for years. I guess I would have been 3rd-6th grade or so. I remember one was brass and one was silver. I don’t remember the names other than that they both began with G, but if I saw them I’d recognize them. One of ours came home and one didn’t. There were little colored star stickers you could put on the bracelet depending on whether they came home or not. You’ve piqued my curiosity; wonder if she still has them.</p>
<p>In my son’s high school there are pictures of the graduates who died in service of their country From WW2 to Iraq/Afghanistan on one of the main hallways. There is also one for a graduate who was a POW MIA who was shot down over Laos in 1971…Maybe one day his family will get some answers…hopefully.</p>