Gold Star Mother

Gold Star Mother
Perhaps there is no greater sacrifice that to give your life to your country.   Certainly to a Mother it is a great sacrifice also.   Since the first American soldier died, Mother’s have grieved.  The grief can be overwhelming and it helps to meet with others who know the unique pain. 

These feelings and the need to share them formed the basis for an American organization called “Gold Star Mother’s”.  It is comprised of women whose sons and daughters served and died in military service so that this world might be a better place in which to live.

Their roots go way back – and the gold star was used in World War I (when the Mother’s were authorized to wear a black arm band with a gold star if their child died in the war).  However, it wasn’t until World War II that the organization received national and Presidential recognition

Proclamation by the President of the United States
Whereas the preamble to Public Resolution 123, 74th Congress, approved June 23, 1936 (40 Stat. 1895), recites:

Whereas the service rendered the United States by the American mother is the greatest source of the Country’s strength and inspiration; and “Whereas we honor ourselves and the mothers of America when we revere and give emphasis to the home as the fountainhead of the State; and

“Whereas the American mother is doing so much for the home and for the moral and spiritual uplift of the people of the United States and hence so much for good government and humanity; and

“Whereas the American Gold Star Mothers suffered the supreme sacrifice of motherhood in the loss of their sons and daughters in World Wars”

and Whereas the said Public Resolution 12 provides:

“That the President of the United States is hereby authorized and requested to issue a proclamation calling upon the Government officials to display the United States flag on all Government buildings, and the people of the United States to display the flag and to hold appropriate meetings in their homes, churches, or other suitable places, on the last Sunday in September, as public expression of the love, sorrow and reverence of the people of the United States for the American Gold Star Mothers."

“Sec. 2. That the last Sunday in September shall hereafter be designated and known as “Gold Star Mother’s Day,” and it shall be the duty of the President to request its observance as provided for in this resolution.”
During World War II Gold Star Mother’s were given a small flag they often displayed in their living room window and some Mothers had flags with more than one star is they lost multiple children in the war.
The group is still active today, below is the contact information:
American Gold Star Mothers
2128 Leroy Place. NW
Washington DC, 20008
Voice phone:  202265-0991
President:  Ms. Georgie Carter Krell

http://www.goldstarmoms.com