GRAND FORKS (AP) - Jane Olson hasn't decided yet whether to vote for Republican presidential candidate John McCain. But she's been thinking about him lately, after coming across an old John McCain prisoner-of-war bracelet in an old box.

Olson got the bracelet in 1968, when she was a high school sophomore and attended a peace rally at the University of North Dakota. She wore it for five years, until McCain was released from a North Vietnamese POW camp in 1973.

McCain, a Navy fighter pilot in Vietnam, had been shot down over North Vietnam in October 1967 during a bombing run. Olson said she had no idea who McCain was when she got the bracelet, but she has followed his rise to the national political stage.

"I always admired him, and he was just so much in the public eye after he got back, I thought, 'whoa, this is pretty cool,"' she said.

Olson, who now is an assistant to the dean of UND's aerospace school, said she was active on campus even while in high school. She said she attended the peace rally 20 years ago not to protest, but because she and her friends knew people involved in the war or about to become a part of it.

"We just believed in peace," she said. "We cared about it because a lot of people in our group, we had quite a few kids who were going to be drafted."

Olson recently e-mailed McCain offering to send him the bracelet. He responded with an e-mail thanking her for the offer.