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The Gold Star Mothers was founded by Grace Darling Seibold of Washington, D.C. [4] When the United States entered World War I in 1917, George Vaughn Seibold, 23, volunteered, requesting assignment in aviation.
Gold Star Fathers Act of 2014, proposed US law to expand preferred eligibility for federal jobs to the fathers of certain disabled or deceased veterans; Gold Star Wives of America, nonprofit organization supporting spouses and children of service members who died in World War II; All pages with titles containing Gold star
On the last Sunday in September, Gold Star Mother's Day is observed in the U.S. in honor of Gold Star mothers, as established in Title 36 § 111 of the United States Code. [16] This was originally declared by Senate Joint Resolution 115 of June 23, 1936. [17] In 2009, Barack Obama proclaimed the observance as Gold Star Mother's and Families ...
World War veterans on the reviewing stand salute Gold Star mothers during the Armistice Day parade Nov. 11, 1939. Fort Worth celebrated Armistice Day Nov. 11, 1946, with a mile-long parade of ...
After the war, his mother, Regina, became very active in the Gold Star Mothers organization, serving one term as national president. John J. McGarty John was born in Providence in 1913.
The city unofficially calls the refurbished memorial the Gold Star Mothers Garden. Starting in World War I, the homes of families with members in the service displayed service flags, and the ...
The Gold Star Mothers National Monument was a proposed national memorial to honor mothers whose children died in defense of the United States. The name of the memorial refers to the Gold Star Mothers Club, formed in the aftermath of World War I.
WASHINGTON — It’s been a long, difficult road for Gold Star mother Nanette West. There was the searing loss of her son, Army 1 st Lt. Kile Grant West, on Memorial Day in 2007 in Iraq. She said ...