Criticizing Internet reports that suggested Obama had exploited her son for political purposes, Tracy Jopek - the mother of a Wisconsin soldier Sgt. Ryan David Jopek, who died in Iraq - said she was ‘ecstatic’ when Obama, during Friday’s debate, made a mention of the bracelet she gave him in honor of her son.

Jopek had given Obama the bracelet at a Green Bay rally in February. It has the name of her 20-year old son, and the date he was killed by a roadside bomb, Aug. 2, 2006. The bracelet says- “All gave some - He gave all.”

Jopek, on Sunday, said that though she had asked Obama not to mention the bracelet on the campaign trail – feeling it could be interpreted as a protest against the war - she was honored and satisfied with how Obama discussed it during the presidential debate.

She said: “I am a mother, a mother who lost her son. It’s hard to know what’s right, what’s wrong about this war, very hard. And I know there are a lot of families who lost loved ones.”

She said she had not heard Obama mentioning the bracelet until Friday, when Obama and McCain appeared in their first debate. In response to a question about Iraq, McCain said a New Hampshire woman asked him to wear a bracelet honoring her fallen son, and asked him to make sure the Iraq mission succeeded so his death would not be in vain.

Obama responded: “I’ve got a bracelet, too, from Sergeant — from the mother of Sergeant Ryan David Jopek, given to me in Green Bay. She asked me, ‘Can you please make sure another mother is not going through what I’m going through?’ No U.S. soldier ever dies in vain because they’re carrying out the missions of their commander in chief. And we honor all the service that they’ve provided.”

Jopek said Obama’s comment rightfully suggested there was more than one viewpoint on the war. Though she did not directly say whether she wanted the Democrat presidential candidate to refrain from mentioning the bracelet again, she said she hopes the issue will just go away.