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A group of Marines arranged to buy a building owned by a women's club at Mason Street and Sutter Street in San Francisco, [1] whose members they had met through their participation in the wartime WAVES program. [10] The club opened on November 10, 1946, the anniversary of the founding of the Marine Corps. [11]
Blue Star Mothers do not have a permanent headquarters, so the headquarters travels with the national president. The current National President (2014–15) is Judy Dorsey of Ohio. Convention locations are chosen by the National President each year. Recent conventions have been held in Washington, D.C., Cincinnati, and San Francisco.
On June 9, 2012, The Fund announced the creation of America's Fund, a self-funded program of The Fund created to direct urgently needed resources and financial support to injured and critically ill members of all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families. [10] In February 2013, Karen Guenther was named Marine Corps Spouse of the Year.
The Farm was established after Stephen Gaskin and friends led a caravan of 60 buses, vans, and trucks from San Francisco on a four-month speaking tour across the US. Along the way, they became a community, lacking only land to put down roots. After returning to California, the decision was made to buy land together.
Rainbow's first substantial expansion, in 1978, was the opening of a general store (selling vitamins, dry goods, housewares, books, clothing etc.). It was located a few doors down from the grocery store. The general store initially ran at a considerable loss and became a significant financial drain on the grocery store.
The mothers' movement was an anti-war women's movement in the United States, beginning in California in 1939, soon after the start of World War II.At its height, it consisted of 50 to 100 loosely-confederated groups, with a total membership that may have been as high as five or six million.
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José Francisco "Jo Jo" Jiménez (March 20, 1946 – August 28, 1969) was a United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroism in the Vietnam War in August 1969.