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Gold Star Wives of America with Doug Jones at the United States Capitol in 2019.. The Gold Star Wives of America (Gold Star Spouses) (GSW) is a private nonprofit organization formed before the end of World War II that provides support for surviving spouses and children of those who lost their lives due to military service Armed Forces of the United States.
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. He was sent to Canada where he learned to fly British planes since the United States had neither an air force nor planes.
The White House chief of staff blasted Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson for telling the press details of the president's call with a Gold Star widow.
A Gold Star Lapel Button (left) and Next of Kin Lapel Button. A Gold Star Lapel Button in the United States is an official decoration authorized by an Act of Congress that is issued to the direct next of kin family members of service members who died in World War I, World War II, and subsequent armed hostilities in which the Armed Forces of the United States has been engaged.
I worry that the departure of American troops from Afghanistan will also mean the departure of their sacrifices from our collective American memory.
Melania Knauss Trump [a] [4] (born Melanija Knavs, [b] April 26, 1970) is a Slovenian and American former model who has been the first lady of the United States since 2025 as the wife of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States. She previously held the role from 2017 to 2021.
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This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source. [4]The Gold Star Fathers Act of 2014 would include as a preference eligible for federal employment purposes a parent (currently, the mother only) of either an individual who lost his or her life under honorable conditions while serving in the Armed Forces during a war, in a ...