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American Gold Star Manor, located in Long Beach, California, is a 348-unit retirement home for parents of soldiers killed while serving in the military. It was founded in the early 1960s by Eleanor Boyd, then president of the American Gold Star Mothers organization.
Based on the star symbols used on the service flag, the term "Blue Star" has come into use in the United States as a reference to having a family member in active military service, while the term "Gold Star" has come to refer to the loss of a family member in military service.
Gold Star mothers are women entitled to display a gold star on a service flag as the mother, stepmother, adoptive mother or foster mother of a United States Armed Forces member that died while engaged in action against an enemy recognized by the Secretary of Defense. Gold Star Mothers may also refer to:
The title given to families of military members who have died in the line of duty is “Gold Star Family" and can be traced back to World War I.
Gold Star families are speaking out after President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of not calling the families of fallen soldiers.
Steven Nikoui’s son, U.S. Marine Kareem Nikoui, was among 13 service members and 170 civilians killed in an attack by a suicide bomber at Abbey Gate outside Kabul's airport during America's ...
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.
A fallen soldier’s father is speaking out, saying his family was booed exiting a plane on their way to collect his son's remains. Gold Star father claims family was booed by airplane passengers ...