American Gold Star Mothers
Clip: Season 2012 | 1m 38s
American gold star mothers reflect on the meaning of Memorial Day.
American Gold Star Mothers is an organization of mothers who have lost a child in military service. It began during World War I with its founder, Grace Darling Seibold, who began visiting service members returning home to hospitals as a means of coping with her sorrow, after her son George was reported missing in France.
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American Gold Star Mothers
Clip: Season 2012 | 1m 38s
American Gold Star Mothers is an organization of mothers who have lost a child in military service. It began during World War I with its founder, Grace Darling Seibold, who began visiting service members returning home to hospitals as a means of coping with her sorrow, after her son George was reported missing in France.
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The National Memorial Day Concert is sponsored by Lockheed Martin , Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans and is made possible by the National Park Service, the Department of the...