One wears his to remember. The other one for show.

Many of us know that John McCain wears the bracelet of a dead soldier, Army Specialist Matthew Stanley, who was killed in combat outside of Baghdad just before Christmas, 2006. It was given to McCain by Matthew’s mom, Lynne Savage. During the Presidential debate, Barack Obama showed the world that he too wears a troop bracelet of a soldier killed in Iraq given to him by the soldiers mom. The problem? He couldn’t seem to remember the name of the soldier!


Bracelet Debate: McCain and Obama 2008 Video

By the way, the name on the bracelet that Obama wears? Sgt. Ryan David Jopek who was killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb, Aug. 2, 2006.

“All gave some. He gave all” are the words engraved on Sgt. David Jopek’s bracelet.