Tag: Vietnam War

By Jen Schumann | Rocky Mountain Voice Days before leaving on a trip she has waited 50 years to take, Rahna Autrey walked into her garage and found a face she had promised never to forget. The tub of childhood keepsakes sat on a shelf in her garage. Inside was her seventh-grade scrapbook, Partridge Family magazines and all. Inside was the brochure that came with her bracelet. One photograph had a blue circle drawn around it. "I couldn't believe it," she said. "What a God thing, huh?" The soldier was Staff Sgt. William "Sandy" Sanderlin, lost over South Vietnam on Dec. 2, 1969. She never met him. But she wore a bracelet with his name for five years, until it broke when she was a senior in high school. Across the country in those years, Americans wore POW/MIA bracelets, each ...