Hero Stories for August 2008

Whenever the presidential campaign trail gets to John McCain, all he has to do is look down at his wrist. McCain said he has been wearing a bracelet in memory of Cpl. Matthew Stanley ever since Stanley's mother gave it to him two months ago while he was campaigning in New Hampshire. The 22-year-old soldier was killed last year in Iraq. The Republican senator from Arizona was wearing the black bracelet during an interview Tuesday with reporters and editors of The Associated Press. He said he p...

pfc-008.jpgSPC Fischer is stationed in Al Qayyarah, Iraq. Christopher has been deployed there since January of 2008. He is with the 76th Infantry Brigade. We live in a small town in Indiana called Dunkirk. Chris is well known and has lots of people supporting him back here at home. He is 19 years old. His birthday is November 5. He has 5 younger brothers. This is only his first deployment, and he is being extremely strong through all of it. I am so proud of him. He is my hero! Jessica Loves C...

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Sergeant James J. Regan, 26, of Manhasset, New York, died February 9, 2007, in northern Iraq of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle while on combat patrol. Regan was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, Georgia Army Ranger from Manhasset killed in a roadside bombing, family says, making him third Chaminade High School grad to die in the war James J. Regan, in his brief life, did not choose the predictable, cushy jobs hi...

Kevin was the oldest of my three sons and was almost nineteen when he enlisted in the Army. After boot camp he was stationed in Germany and was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 63rd Armor Division, ( THE BIG RED ONE). When he wasn't being deployed he belonged to a volunteer Fire Department in the city of Weiden where he lived. The volunteers were responsible for eight villages, including his in case of a fire. He also liked sports, playing football in high school and played on a softball te...

Thank you for the opportunity to share information with you concerning our son, SPC Luke Frist, who we lost Jan. 5, 2007. I have also attached two pictures of Luke, one which includes his two sisters. Again thank you, Dennis and Patti Frist Luke Frist was born in Lafayette, IN on April 17, 1983. He was the youngest child of Dennis and Patti Frist and was welcomed home by two older sisters, Johanna and Erin. When he was 5 years old his family moved to an old farmhouse in southwest White Coun...

My hero 1st is my son Sgt John Steadman jr,He just got back from Afganistan 3 months ago and had been there 15 months. He left behind a large family including a wife ,2 small sons and a daughter. He got ambushed more than once, shot out all the time, food wasnt so good. He had health problems but had to suffer thru them until he came back to the states and is still waiting for them to be taken care of. The Hero bracelet I got was for the soldier from Johns unit that we lost 11-10-07. I wear i...

Our hero is Cpl. Jimmy L. Shelton. Jimmy was KIA in FOB Summerall, Bayji Iraq 12/3/05. He joined the Army to go get the bad guys. He believed he could make a difference....and he did. Jimmy was a genuine person with so many friends. He was the type of friend that was always there. He was the kind of son that made us so very proud of him. He was always making us laugh. At his graduation he wore under his gown the Garfield pajamas that he made in home-ec. He also learned how to make th...