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  • Family Told Obama NOT To Wear Soldier Son's Bracelet... Where is Media?

    09/28/2008 4:12:21 AM PDT · by Tom_Busch · 207 replies · 10,601+ views
    Newsbusters ^ | September 28, 2008 | Warner Todd Huston
    Barack Obama played the "me too" game during the Friday debates on September 26 after Senator John McCain mentioned that he was wearing a bracelet with the name of Cpl. Matthew Stanley, a resident of New Hampshire and a soldier that lost his life in Iraq in 2006. Obama said that he too had a bracelet. After fumbling and straining to remember the name, he revealed that his had the name of Sergeant Ryan David Jopek of Merrill, Wisconsin. Shockingly, however, Madison resident Brian Jopek, the father of Ryan Jopek, the young soldier who tragically lost his life to a...