Here’s a great feel-good story for the day:

GREELEY, Colo. ( (AP) ― Growing up, all three Behrens boys played Army. It wasn’t unusual for their mom to look outside and shout, “What are you doing on the roof?” But she knew: They were playing Army again.

And now, all three brothers, Brian, Matthew and Brandon Behrens, have joined the military.

Brian, 24, is in the Army and still in training in New York; Matthew, 20, will leave for the Marines this month; his twin, Brandon, has joined the Army National Guard and will leave for basic training in August.

But of the three, the one who went through the most to get in the military was Brandon, who fought to get in because of an unusual problem: He is missing most of his trigger finger.

For more than a year, Brandon sent letters to the military, to Congress, to other leaders, asking that he should be given the chance to join, despite a childhood accident that caused him to lose the upper portion of an index finger.

“When I was 3, I got my finger caught in a folding hide-a-bed, and it cut off the end,” Brandon said, holding up the finger. “I grew up without that finger, and I’ve been fine.”

But when he tried to enlist, Brandon was told he couldn’t join because most of his trigger finger was missing.

It isn’t that Brandon was disabled by the accident. He was a state qualifier in wrestling at Greeley West High School, and he played the trumpet and bugle in the band. He was a member of Bugles Across America, where he played Taps at military funerals in this area. All without the end of his trigger finger.

So, he was surprised last year when he was told he couldn’t join.

Read the rest at CBS 4 Denver.