Sgt. Dakota Meyer and Bristol Palin called off their wedding just days before they were slated to tie the knot in Kentucky on Saturday. 
 
 Bristol Palin has broken her silence, addressing her called-off wedding to U.S. Marine and war hero Sgt. Dakota Meyer for the first time. 
 
 "Sorry it's taken me so long to talk about this... It's been hard," the 24-year-old began in a Facebook post Tuesday that linked to a statement on her blog. 
 
 There, in a post titled "The Wedding That Didn't Happen," she spoke of her broken engagement to the Medal of Honor recipient — as well as an apparent broken heart. 
 
 "I guess you have seen by now that the wedding — that was supposed to happen last weekend — was called off," she stated. 
 
 In a blog post, the 24-year-old single mother said that she and her young son, pictured here with Meyer, are working to rebuild their lives 'under much different circumstances.' (bsmp2 via Instagram) 
 
 The single mother, who publicly announced her engagement to Meyer just in March, went on to ask for prayers during "a painful time for family and friends." 
 
 "I know God's plan is greater than anything else, and Tripp and I are in Alaska beginning to rebuild our lives under much different circumstances than we anticipated," she stated while mentioning her 6-year-old son whose father, Levi Johnston, she was twice engaged to. 
 
 Why Saturday's wedding was called off remains publicly unaddressed by both the Palins and Meyer. 
 
 Bristol Palin shows off her engagement ring in an Instagram photo posted in March. (bsmp2 via Instagram) 
 
 Curiously the news, announced by her mother Sarah Palin on Facebook last week, came just days after documents emerged showing that Meyer previously wed a Michigan woman in 2008 at the age of 19 in Kentucky. 
 
 Bristol Palin claimed that she knew about this prior marriage and insisted that Meyer and the woman divorced "years ago." A public records search by the Daily News recovered no trace of divorce papers containing Meyer's name in Kentucky or Michigan. 
 
 On Saturday close friends and family still gathered in Kentucky where the young couple's nuptials were planned. 
 
 Instead of celebrating a wedding, however, Sarah Palin said they'd "celebrate life, in general!" ||||| Facebook 
 
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 Bristol Palin, a reality TV personality and daughter of 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, is engaged to marry Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer, the couple said on Saturday. 
 
 "Last night, Sgt Dakota Meyer proposed and I said yes!" Palin, 24, said on her blog. 
 
 Meyer, 26, was awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest U.S. award for bravery, in 2011 for saving 36 of his comrades' lives during an ambush in Afghanistan in 2009. 
 
 Bristol Palin said she met Meyer in 2014 when he came to Alaska to film the reality TV show "Amazing America" with her mother, the former governor of Alaska and election running mate of Republican presidential nominee John McCain. 
 
 Meyer said on Facebook, "I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with her and Tripp," Bristol Palin's son fathered by a high school boyfriend. On her Facebook page, Sarah Palin said, "Our families couldn't be happier for Bristol and Dakota! We're honored to welcome Dakota into our family." 
 
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– Bristol Palin is engaged, reports People, and this time it is to a decorated former Marine who is only the third living recipient of the Medal of Honor and not someone who is perennially terrible and more than a little hazy on birth control. "Last night, Sgt Dakota Meyer proposed and I said yes!" the 24-year-old Palin wrote on her blog. Meyer is a 26-year-old Kentuckian who saved the lives of 36 Marines in an Afghanistan ambush in 2009, notes NBC News. The pair met last year when Meyer came to Alaska to film Amazing America with future mother-in-law Sarah Palin, who says via Facebook that "our families couldn't be happier for Bristol and Dakota!" Meyer, she says, is "a good and kind man who loves Bristol and Tripp, and is loved by them."