This is the letter that I recieved from Delvins mother when I wrote her right after I recieved his MIA bracelet in April 1988
Dear Melissa,

Thank you for writing and letting me know that you are wearing Delvin's MIA bracelet.  I had a granddaughter graduate from CSU last Dec. 19.  She wears her Uncles bracelet also.  I don't because it just hurts to much. I guess I am just too tender hearted.  I just can't get over the loss of Delvin.  His daddy was pretty sick and when we got the word of his death, then my husband got worse and I lost him in 1975.  I had two sons.  Then in 1976 Elroy was killed in a tractor-train accident.  So I lost both my boys and my husband.  Then I met my husbands cousin.  He had just lost his wife.  We were both lonesome so we married.  He taught English in High School in Mt. Edgecuma, close to Sitka, Alaska.  I just loved it up there, took off a lot of my troubles and loneliness.  Then when he retired we moved back to my farm in Kersey.  Then all my sorrows returned.  I would love to sell my farm and get away from it all again.  Sometimes I just want it all to end. I have two wonderful grandchildren.  My oldest son was married, but Delvin never did.  My grandson is married and they have an 8 month old son.  So it makes me feel older I have a great grandson.  I think the world and all of him.  He is so sweet.  Thanks for your letter, I am glad that you are wearing Delvin's bracelet,
Take care
Mrs. Moorhead