Son volunteered for a second tour and a Purple Heart for Grandfather.

I would like to share a little about my heroes. I got the bracelets from your website which I had found on a google search. Since my son had been wounded by a car bomb in Iraq in 2004 I was glad I was wearing one while he was here and it wasn't a KIA bracelet.

I also ordered some with my Grandfathers' name on them, Roy A Yonts. He was wounded at Zig Zag Pass in the Philippines during WW II near the end of the war and he was awarded a Purple Heart but never received it. Apparently the papers were lost before he got it somehow, he is still alive and doing pretty well for a man of 91 years. He is truly my hero and I would love to be able to find out how to get him his Purple Heart while he is still alive. I got him a Purple Heart hat from a site called prior service and he wears that hat such pride. I would do anything to help him get his Purple Heart while he is still alive. If you can help me make this dream come true please let me know. His name is Roy A. Yonts he was with a signal battalion when he was wounded.

My son has wanted to be a solider since he was old enough to walk and spent many days fighting the enemy in the back yard with a stick rifle. At seventeen he got his wish and joined the Alaska National Guard, and then went active duty, spent a year in Korea the back to the states long enough to get fitted for the desert. While on patrol in Baghdad his group was approached by a man in a SUV. When the guys stopped the vehicle, the driver blew it up and sent my son flying through the air about 65 ft breaking his back. He spent several weeks in a hospital then was flown to Germany and back to the States. He was then transferred to Ft Wainwright AK and volunteered to go back with his group for another tour in Iraq, much to the disapproval of his Mother and I.

My son is a true hero in my eyes, and so are all the men and women who sacrifice to preserve our freedom. Please help me get my Grandfather his Purple Heart.

Thank You

Mark Hanson

A Proud Father of Two US Soldiers

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