She Made A Promise To A Vietnam Soldier. 38 Years Later, She Finds Out He Died

Most 12 year old girls were out riding bikes, gossiping with friends, or playing with toys, but in 1977, Kathy Strong began a long journey of honoring her country.

On Christmas day that year, Kathy received a Vietnam MIA-POW bracelet. From that moment on she promised that she wouldn’t take it off until she could place it on the sleeve of the soldier it belonged to.

For 38 years, she wore the bracelet that bore the name James Leslie Moreland, a green beret who had already been missing in action since ’72.

“I made a promise and I wanted to keep it,” Kathy says. But would Moreland ever return home?

- Emerald Pellott, LittleThings.com