POW bracelet--Did you have one?

My mom had (has) one.

I still have my bracelet. 

I would have liked to have had one, but my mother didn't think they were "proper" or something like that....Don't remember exactly at this time....

I have one and I still wear it as he hasn't come home.

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That's great that you were able to get in touch with him.

I had one, he came home, and retired a Brigadier General. He was a POW from 1967 to 1973.

Interesting fact: Norman Carl Gaddis (born September 30, 1923), along with John McCain, were the two senior United States prisoners of war during the Vietnam War. General Gaddis opted out of a political life to spend time with his family in North Carolina after retiring from the US Air Force.

I wore one in the early 70s. I still have it sitting on my dresser.

I've never heard of these. Were these family members or loved ones you wore them for, or did people just buy them pre-made with a POW/MIA's info already etched on them?

I had one too. Charles Shelton from Louisiana. He never came home. My Dad served with Charles Plumb. He came home when I was about 11 or 12 and attended our annual reunion of all the guys my Dad flew with in Vietnam. That was the only year he attended but it made quite an impression on me. He wrote the book "I'm no Hero" and is now a motivational speaker.

I remember them, but I didn't have one. My father was a Navy photo recon pilot who had friends who'd been shot down. He was actually listening to his best bud (and father of my best friend at the time) when his plane was shot down and then when he was on the ground surrounded by Vietcong. Because we already had specific people tombs thinking of, and perhaps because of my dad's trauma with the loss of his friends, Dad didn't want us to get a bracelet.

His friends did make it back years later.

I was wondering the same thing.

As I recall my Dad bought them pre-made. We came home from Japan in 1969 (I think). My Dad would speak in the local schools and various clubs and hand them out. I still have mine. I chose mine because of the last name -- it was the same as my Grandma's maiden name. The premise was you would wear it until they came home and then you would send it to them. Mine never came home and is still listed as MIA.

I had one I wore in during Viet Nam. my guy came home. I saw him on Phil Donahue show one day. He was talking about how many soldiers were lost & how we could help all of the missing. I do not remember how many years it was that I saw him. He is a high rank. He is on these sites that is for people to help the people buy buying bracelets & helping soldiers now. I think his name was Eugene Mc Danial ( if I remember right)