Hero Stories for November 2009

My favorite Thanksgiving memory with my son & hero Cpl Jimmy Shelton was celebrated in Sept of 2005. He had orders to deploy to Iraq on the 20th of Sept and knowing he would miss Thanksgiving & Christmas we decided to celebrate both with his buddies in Sept while I was there visiting. I woke up early that morning (after a late night having a Toga party) stepped over sleeping soldiers and cleaned the kitchen so I could start baking. Jimmy had warned me that the oven was "jacked up" but I w...

Michael was a great son, brother, husband, father, uncle and nephew. He was the youngest of 4 children. He was married and leave behind his wife Alyssa and 1 year old son Connor. His mother, 2 sisters and 2 brothers,7 nephews and 1 niece. He always had a smile on his face and knew that the military was his calling. He is loved and missed so much. He took a piece of everyone's heart with him. We are so very Proud of you Michael our Hero Love m

How do you plan Thanksgiving dinner for 180,000 people more than 6,000 miles away? If you're a food buyer at the Defense Logistics Agency, you start by making a shopping list in April for meals to be served to U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanist

The afternoon mission was just one of almost three dozen day and night, partnered hasty checkpoint missions, labeled as vehicle interdiction snap traffic control point operations conducted since mid-Septemb

My favorite Thanksgiving memory with my hero would be our 2004 Thanksgiving. My son SSgt Joshua M. Horton, USMC, was deployed to Iraq in early September, 2004. He had been deployed in early May, but spent those first months in Camp Pendleton, CA, training for combat. He was part of F Company, 2/24, based out of Milwaukee, WI. This was a holiday season that we anticipated would be spent without Josh, as he was to be in Iraq til the spring of 2005. Josh was only in Iraq for six weeks, whe...

I recently ordered a hero bracelet because I remembered them from the Vietnam War when I was in high school. I was pleased to see that they were being made to honor and help our members of the armed forces. I recently lost my father, who was 91 and had served in World War II. It was with great pride in him and in our nation's troops, that I accepted the American flag at his funeral. My husband plans to make a box built with Dad's tools to keep the flag in. I received my bracelet today. It is...

Staff Sgt. Matthew A. Pucino, 34, of Cockeysville, Maryland, died November 23, 2009, in Pashay Kala, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. Staff Sgt. Pucino was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 20th Special Forces Group of the Maryland Army National Guard in Glen Arm, Maryland. </d

I purchased a herobracelet for Sgt. Samuel K. Kelsey, from Troup, Texas, who died on 12-13-07 in Iraq. I saw a story on the internet about this brave young man. He was the only child of a single mom who died during his second tour in Iraq saving a fellow soldier. I bought and wear this bracelet to remind me to pray for his mother and our troops. As a mother of an Army soldier who recently discharged, my heart is so heavy for this Mom. To lose her only child....my heart just can't imagine...

We're asking HeroBracelets wearers to submit their Thanksgiving Hero stories to be published here on the site. We'll pick one at random to receive a free sterling silver HeroBracelet. Send your stories to info@herobracelets.org and we'll get them online right away. And the best Thanksgiving to you all and all you guys and gals overseas right now, know we're thinking about yo

It was November he was stationed aboard the USS Mobile Bay (CG-53) steaming to the Arabian Gulf for what is now the 1st Gulf War. His ship pulled into Oman for Thanksgiving I surprised him with a call had a friend who was in the Navy who knew how to contact him. He was sure surprised to get a call in the quarter deck that morning he had went that day out to dinner asked him what he had he said it was pizza from Pizza Hut. Said it was soooo good but not the traditional feast we would have at h...