Hero Stories for HeroBracelets

A better Memorial bracelet.

Dear HeroBracelets.org, I had ordered a memorial bracelet a few months back from another website and, while I was happy to have the memorial bracelet, I was unhappy with the way it was made. The aluminum was thin and had rough edges. As it got beat up, I started looking for a better memorial bracelet and found HeroBracelets.org. I'm now very happy with the memorial bracelet I received. It's made of a much better quality, the edges are not rough and it's quite comfortable. Thank you HeroBracel...

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Adopt-A-Platoon.org

When I was a teenager, my best friend invited me to sing Christmas carols with her church youth group. The youth group's minister had a list of shut-ins and our mission that night was to stop in front of as many houses as possible, and belt out Jingle Bells, Silent Night and a few other favorites before movingon. To me, it was an opportunity to have a night out with my friends, dress in my coolest clothes and have hot chocolate together when it was over. It wasn't going to take a whole l...

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Letter to her son, Sgt. David Alan Ruhren.

June 2, 2005 Hi Handsome, Garfield wants me to do a little speech about you. To tell everyone a little bit about - what a great guy you are. I know your thinking - great - As you're putting on the famous David Alan smirk & just shrugging your shoulders My mom is going to speak about me & given the fact she's been such a basket case these days - she's going to make this an emotional wreck. She'll have people crying in the aisles !! But you know what Davey - it's Ok I'll reframe from te...

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Remembering Sgt. David Alan Ruhren.

I can't thank you enough for putting this on your webpage. I have attached one of the very first speeches I had to write about my son for one of the countless ceremonies I had to go to. I hope this gives you a sense of who my son is. Davey joined the guard when he was 17 - went to boot camp when he turned 18 - He then joined The 229th Army Natl. Guard Engineer Battalion in Fredericksburg, VA. He heard about another unit being short 14 men to go to Iraq - so being the man he is - volunteered t...

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