Hero Stories for February 2006

I want to thank you for coming to HeroBracelets.org. We started this project in December of 2004 and could never have imagined what would happen once we launched the HeroBracelets.org site. The first week the site was online, we had a handful of orders and email every day. We were pretty excited that people would actually find the site and want to help by wearing the name of a Soldier or Marine on their wrist. But within only a couple weeks, a reporter found us and mentioned HeroBracelets.org...

I wanted to share the original of the original POW Bracelets and found this article. -------------- The Origin of the POW-MIA Bracelets Anyone who has been around the MIA issue for a few minutes is aware of the POW-MIA bracelets. The bracelets come in various finishes -- I have seen aluminum bracelets as well as bracelets of gold, silver, stainless steel, colored aluminum, copper, and brass. On each bracelet is engraved, at a minimum, the name, rank, service, loss date, and country of loss ...