"STAUNTON — Of the 63 men and women from Bethel Presbyterian Church who left during World War II to assist overseas, two sat on either side of the church on Sunday.
Charles Beard and David Turner were surrounded by their friends and family during the morning service, but they were also surrounded in a different way, by the 61 others who had gone to war with them.
At the front of the church, a faded silk banner trimmed in red had 63 blue stars stitched to it in neat rows against a white background. Two of those stars were for Beard and Turner; the others for the rest of the members of Bethel who had all managed to return home safely from World War II.
The banner, a Blue Star Flag stitched together at the start of the war and hung in the church from 1941 to 1945 to remember those who had left, was discovered in the Church's storage room with no clue as to who carefully stitched each star."
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