What’s this “Gold Star?”
Is their a Silver Star? Bronze? Copper?
What is a gold star?? really, I guess you weren’t around in the early 40’s? They hung little flags in the windows of homes where their sons were sent off to fight the war. The flags had one or more blue stars in the center which corresponded to how many in the family were in the service. If a service man was KIA, the star was changed to Gold, which meant the family lost a member in battle. We had 3 gold stars in our family, all within a week. Shot down over Germany in 44’.
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Some of my customers on my paper route had gold star decals on their front door glass. I found out what they stood for from one of the WW2 books I read long ago. IIRC, there were also blue stars, which stood for a family member who was wounded in battle.