Hero Stories for deployment

Joanne Chavonne saw pregnant women everywhere in town, shopping at Target for diapers or dining at a Mexican restaurant. Then she heard that so many families were calling the medical clinic at nearby Fort Bragg for the results of pregnancy tests that the U.S. Army had to install an extra telephone line. And finally, over the summer, an administrator told her that the hospital on base was overrun with women in labor and was delivering nearly 300 babies a month. "I was shocked," said Chavonne, ...

Flat Stan was busy socializing at the US Embassy in Baghdad this week... He attended his final Baghdad Cigar Aficionado Club meeting in November. Here are a few shots of Flat Stanley and me, enjoying the simple pleasures that come from smoking a fine cigar with great friends, and enjoying some Iraqi SNAPPLE Iced Tea..  :-) Enjoy!  16 more days until Flat Stanley and I leave IRAQ!!! Jon Burrow, LTJG, LDO, USN Force Protection Offi

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Hey all. This is me in a village called Little Abu Sayda.  Pretty torn up by AQI (Al Qaeda), the kids are great, they don't have much and appreciate what we bring.  Working to restore some services and economy in the area.  Two of our troops covering us while we talk with the local officials. Mike  Stew

In May 1918 President Wilson approved the suggestion of the Women's Committee of National Defenses. It recommended that American women should wear a black band on the upper left arm, adorned with a gold star. Each star representing a family member who had given his or her life for their country. This was suggested in lieu of conventional mourning attire. The "star" tradition began in WW I when white Service Flags were displayed from homes, business, schools and churches to indicate, by the us...

You're an 18 or 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley, 11-14-1965. LZ Xray, Vietnam. Your Infantry Unit is outnumbered 8 - 1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the Medi-Vac helicopters to stop coming in. You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you're not getting out. Your family is 1/2 way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and ...

The Advisor is a monthly newsletter that Col Bartasius has been sending us. We are proud to publish here on HeroBracelets.org. -------------------- Dear Advisor Readers, It is our privilege to send you this month's third edition of The Advisor. Please share it with your friends and family. We greatly appreciate your support, readership, and encouragement. If you would like to view past issues, click on our link at: http://www.mnstci.iraq.centcom.mil/Advisor.htm Very Respectfully, The Advisor ...

Just got a great note from Carolyn Schroder. My husband is a Lt. currently serving in Iraq. I purchased HeroBracelets for all of the wives in his platoon who are here manning the fort. We all wear our bracelets everyday and won't take them off till they are home in our arms ... thank you for what you do! -Carolyn Schroder Twentynine Palms, CA </blockquo

We've been very fortunate to get this ongoing series of messages and photos from Melody Pigg about her son Marshall, who is currently deployed in Iraq. Marshall sent us cameras from Iraq! The poor people at Walgreens probably got tired of me hovering over them anxiously waiting to see these pictures. Here's a few of them for you to enjoy. One of them is of the sunset, two of them are of the very barren looking landscape, and the last one is of Marshall. It was so nice to see a picture of him....