Monday, October 24, 2011

'Gold Star' families honored in ceremony at Fort Campbell

McConville spoke of an Army at war for a decade, of soldiers who have remained for as many as six deployments, of missing birthdays, Christmases and a child's first steps. He also spoke of his own son, who has just been commissioned, and of his wife's entry into the ranks of Blue Star mothers, and of the bond of a mother and her son that led to the creation of Gold Star Mothers back in World War I.

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