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Blue Star Mothers, wives, and visiting soldiers, Granada Relocation Center, Colorado, June 1943. Retired Army Capt. George H. Maines conceived the idea for the Blue Star Mothers after a conversation with General John Pershing. He ran a newspaper article in the Flint News Advertiser on January 22, 1942. A coupon was included in the article and ...
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.
Blue Star Ferries, a Greek ferry company; Blue Star Infotech, Indian company; Blue Star Line, a former British shipping company; Blue Star Productions, a publishing imprint and a division of Book World, Inc; Bluestar (bus company), based in Southampton, England; Blue star (Indonesian bus company), based in Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia
A service flag or service banner is a banner that family members of those serving in the United States Armed Forces can display. The flag or banner is officially defined as a white field with a red border, with a blue star for each family member serving in the Armed Forces of the United States during any period of war or hostilities.
Blue Star Mothers; Science and technology. Bag Source Message, corresponding to an airline bag tag; Basic Safety Message, a type of message sent in dedicated short ...
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — The Blue Star Mothers of Coastal Carolina is asking for donations as a deadline nears in efforts to place wreaths on the gravesites of fallen veterans. The goal of ...
American Gold Star Mothers, Inc. (AGSM), is a private [1] nonprofit organization [2] of American mothers who lost sons or daughters in service of the United States Armed Forces. It was originally formed in 1928 for mothers of those lost in World War I , and it holds a congressional charter under Title 36 § 211 of the United States Code . [ 3 ]
The American War Mothers was founded in 1917 and given a Congressional charter on February 24, 1925. It is a perpetual patriotic, 501(c) 4 non-profit, non-political, non-sectarian, non-partisan organization whose members are mothers of children who have served or are serving in the Armed Services during a time of conflict.