Gold Star Mother's Day

[d_marsh]

Gold Star Mother’s Day is observed in the United States on the last Sunday of September each year. It is a day to recognize and honor mothers who have lost a son or daughter while serving in the United States Armed Forces.

https://veteran.com/gold-star-mothers-day/

Dear Madam,

I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.

I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.
Yours, very sincerely and respectfully

A. LINCOLN.

 

[d_marsh]

The stoic grief of Gold Star mother's.

Though Gold Star Mothers walk together down an unpredictable, painful, draining, and exhausting path, they seek hope. The work they do is largely unheralded, little known, and poorly, if at all, understood. This can be, certainly in part, attributed to the reality that a minuscule number of our citizens ever actually serve in uniform. And shouldn’t this Mother’s Day be a time for our country’s citizens to pledge individual responsibility in the form of national service? And resolve ourselves to hold national leaders to account?

The work of the Gold Star Mothers is never-ending. If a soldier, sailor, Marine, or airman dies while serving on active duty, regardless of the cause, Gold Star Mothers are there. Their faith, devotion, and selflessness unequivocally embody nobility unabashed.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-stoic-grief-of-the-gold-star-mothers/

 

[Bacpacker]

Didn't even know this was a thing. Much respect to all those Mom's out there that lost a loved one while serving.

My Grandma died 2 months after my dad was KIA. Dr told the family she died of a broken heart.