Posted on 09/24/2017 8:13:04 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
Gold Star Mother's Day!
On June 23, 1936, a joint congressional resolution designated the last Sunday in September as Gold Star Mother’s Day and proclaimed annually by each president. In 2011, President Barack Obama amended the day to “Gold Star Mother’s and Family’s Day.”
The American Gold Star Mothers, Inc. was incorporated in 1929 and obtained a federal charter from the United States Congress. It began in the Washington DC area and soon expanded to include affiliated groups throughout the United States.
The history of gold star mothers and their families begins with a young country thrown in the midst of a great war. Army Captian Robert L. Queissner, whose two sons were serving on the front line during World War I, created what is now called the Service Flag. The flag was displayed with a blue star to represent a child serving in the military during times of war or hostilities. When a service member died, families stitched a gold star over the blue star.
An ocean often divided families from their deceased sons, as was the case of the founder of the American Gold Star Mothers, Inc. organization, Grace Darling Seibold. While waiting for confirmation of her son’s death, she visited the VA hospital almost daily and made herself useful in the process. Afterward, she continued to visit the hospital and formed the organization that unites gold star mothers still today.
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Hope the conservative media notes this on Monday.
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For those who have given the last full measure of devotion for the Project for a New American Century.
What are you talking about?
You are against God Star Mom’s Day observance?
The PNAC site is down but there is the wiki page. I understand that motives for war can seem to make the sacrifice of our boots seem for naught. My brother died in Nam.
However, I have learned to look at history through heavens eyes. God still rules the nations and events are structured to bring about His will. This means allowing war and peace at specific times.
When it comes to the individual, as they fight for the brother next to them, laying down their life for their friend is seen by God as the greatest form of love. I believe wars suppresses the evil that is in the world until the time it is given reign over the world for a short time.
When God spoke to Abraham in Gen 15 He told him that his descendants would be enslaved in a strange land for 400 years and then they would leave with many possessions. vs 16 “Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.”
God does things according to His justice and His plan.
When it comes to the individual, as they fight for the brother next to them, laying down their life for their friend is seen by God as the greatest form of love...
I’m glad my mom is with my brother now and is experiencing a joy we only get to glimpse while waiting for the Kingdom. Must be exciting up there!
Sorry about your mom and brother.
However, I agree that it must be exciting up there.
Going to be a big party when we all arrive :)
Thank you. She had a stroke 11 yrs before she passed and lost the ability to speak. You kNOW she hasn’t stopped praising the Lord since she arrived. Her best friend met her there 3 weeks ago and they are doing a duet.
Doing a duet—love the thought :)
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