Hero Stories for memorial wristband

Mary Wildes put on a HeroBracelet before her son, 18-year-old Pfc. Matthew Wildes, deployed to Iraq last May, but for some reason Mary could not take the bracelet off. Wildes said she was going to take the bracelet off when Matthew returned from Iraq, but Wildes never got that chance. Wildes saw her son when he took his leave in August, only 23 days before a roadside bomb killed Matthew in Iraq. HeroBracelets offers Gold Star families a way to remember, and Wildes recently received her bracel...

[caption id="attachment_3259" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Sarah Palin wearing her Deployed HeroBracelet at a recent event."][/caption] In some recent photo's of Sarah Palin, we noticed she's wearing her Deployed HeroBracelet bearing her son's name, Track Paliin. Track is serving in the Middle East right now. Back in 2008, we had heard that both Sarah Palin's son and now Vice President Joseph Biden's son were heading off on deployements, so we made them both a set of Deployed HeroB...

What a bargain! I put out the word to friends and neighbors that I was sending books to the 467th in Afghanistan. Well, it didnt take long to get a LOT of books. I probably got 100lbs or more of books or more. Great books too. Not faded old paperbacks. Then I got to worrying about the shipping cost. I went online and found the form I needed to fill out to send to an APO and filled it in. Then we used the calculator to figure out shipping cost. Scared the heck out of me. I was looking at sever...

A couple weeks back, we were fortunate enough to meet the 467th at Fort Hood, following the terrible shooting that claimed 5 of their members. During our visit, I talked quite a bit with MAJ Laura Suttinger and in the conversation, she mentioned that they love getting their hands on books on the deployment. Well, they headed out to Afghanistan last week and I put out a call to friends and neighbors for books. Got a great bunch of really good books dropped off. Well, just heard from the Major ...

Pfc. Jaiciae L. Pauley, 29, of Austell, Georgia, died December 11, 2009, in Kirkuk, Iraq, of injuries sustained from a non-combat related incident. Pfc. Pauley was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Georgia. </d

We've VERY proud to be able to expand out fund raising process. Currently, we send $2.00 from each HeroBracelet sold to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund or $2.00 to the Military Order of the Purple Heart on Purple Heart HeroBracelet orders. We have just been in contact with BlueStarFam.org (Blue Star Families) and GoldStarMoms.com (American Gold Star Mothers). Very soon, you will be able to select which organization you would like the donation made to when you ord

Thank you for the OEF Bracelets (HeroBracelets). They are very high quality and we're very pleased. I had searched all over the internet looking for OEF Bracelets and found many companies offering them. I'm glad I got the original HeroBracelet. Thank you. LT Brixton Miami

I teach a high school American history class and ordered your KIA bracelets (you call them HeroBracelets) for my class. We studied the war, what led up to it and those who fought it. I wanted my students to have the KIA bracelets and to learn about the men and women who's names are there. I think it's been a great lesson for them. Thank you for providing such a valuable service. And I'm quite impressed with the quality of these memorial bracelets. Chris Taylor NY,

By DINESH RAMDE | Associated Press Writer 6:37 PM CDT, September 28, 2008 MILWAUKEE - After Tracy Jopek gave Sen. Barack Obama a bracelet in honor of her son who was killed in Iraq, she asked Obama not to mention the bracelet on the campaign trail. But Jopek told The Associated Press on Sunday that she's satisfied with how Obama discussed it during last week's presidential debate. Jopek gave Obama the bracelet at a Green Bay rally in February. It has the name of her son, Sgt. Ryan David Jopek...

Web-posted Saturday, January 1, 2005 Military bracelet sells well Aluminum band commemorates fallen soldiers By Brandi Grissom The Associated Press AUSTIN - A message from a stranger hundreds of miles away nearly brought Kristi Mann to tears. On a Web site memorializing Mann's brother-in-law who died in Iraq in 2003, someone in Florida wrote: "Today I received a bracelet with James Powell's name engraved on it. I will wear it with pride, remembering always that he died for me. HE IS NOT FORGO...