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2005-05-27 Home Front: WoT
Mother of Slain Soldier Denied Gold Star Membership
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Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-05-27 07:15|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Just a question. Whaat is that Gold Star thing? Is it a private or government funded institutiion? And what benefits does it give to members?
Posted by JFM">JFM  2005-05-27 09:27||   2005-05-27 09:27|| Front Page Top

#2 JFM: Gold Star Mothers are so called because they lost a child in war. Parents of soldiers often put up service flags in the front window. A blue star means your soldier is still living; a gold one means he or she was killed in action. The organization Gold Star Mothers began after WWI, for those who had lost sons in the war to comfort each other and to offer various kinds of help to veterans and their families. The organization is connected somehow to the Dept of Veterans Affairs. They have a website, www.goldstarmoms.com

Looks like a case of bureaucratic mentality at work in this case. Somebody's going to regret the comment about "We can't change the rules every time we turn around."

Posted by mom 2005-05-27 09:46||   2005-05-27 09:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Someone grab these rectal orifices on the executive board by the sphincter to get their attention please. While I'm against illegal aliens crossing my border, a good number of servicemembers of Mexican origin have also given their last full measure of devotion as well whose parents are not citizens of the US either. They are Gold Star parents whether these ROs want to acknowledge it or not. Nearly every American conflict has had servicemembers who died though themselves and their families are neither citizens or even residing in the US. The color of the shed blood is always the same.
Posted by Shaviling Thromotle9261 2005-05-27 09:56||   2005-05-27 09:56|| Front Page Top

#4 I agree that the mother should be admitted and I wonder why the board can't see the other side of this argument. I think this change should have been made long ago and with respect to the Filipinos it should have been automatic since we share a special bond with that country.
Posted by Cyber Sarge 2005-05-27 10:54||   2005-05-27 10:54|| Front Page Top

#5 "We can't go changing the rules every time the wind blows."

What a nice analogy--comparing the loss of a son to a puff of wind. Ms. Herd, you are an embarassment.
Posted by Dar">Dar  2005-05-27 11:06||   2005-05-27 11:06|| Front Page Top

#6 These stupid fucking cunts. I'll be making a call this AM and making sure they never get another dime of government money or the use of goverment property or recognition until they change this policy. While I honor the loss of these mothers the cause their children died for is against this stupid backwards racisim. I bet these fucking bitches are all members of the DAR too.
Posted by Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-05-27 11:12||   2005-05-27 11:12|| Front Page Top

#7 These attitudes are the main reason I've never bothered to join the DAR - and yes, I am most definitely eligible.
Posted by DAR eligible 2005-05-27 12:08||   2005-05-27 12:08|| Front Page Top

#8 "We can't go changing the rules every time the wind blows."

Correct. But you can change the rules when it's obvious that an old rule no longer serves a useful purpose, and this is one of those rules that must be changed. Change the rule. Today would be fine.

God bless Sgt. Lagman, and an enormous thank you to Mrs. Lagman.
Posted by Steve White">Steve White  2005-05-27 12:10||   2005-05-27 12:10|| Front Page Top

#9 You know.... I can't help but wonder of there are any mothers of illegal aliens who are members.

If these were Mexican or Latino you just know that congress would be all over their 'rights' and the organization would be twisting the rules in knots to get her in.
Posted by CrazyFool 2005-05-27 12:47||   2005-05-27 12:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Somehow I don't think the Army cared if his mother was an American citizen. She is here legally, and can do pretty much everything a citizen can do except vote....and apparently, be a member of this organization. Truly pathetic.

Normally, lawyers make me sick, but in this case....I hope that guy's brother really sticks it to them.
Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-05-27 15:28|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]  2005-05-27 15:28|| Front Page Top

#11 if you want to kn ow what Sock Puppet really said, highlight his comment - comes thru real clear......
Posted by Claviling Crart7700 2005-05-27 15:31||   2005-05-27 15:31|| Front Page Top

#12 I never got along with the DAR. They are a bunch of wackos! My first college roommate's mom was DAR. For some reason the stupid B. thought I was a commie and tried to have another roommate assigned. Had a couple of other run ins with them. Stuck up morons is the term that comes to mind.
Posted by 3dc 2005-05-27 15:38||   2005-05-27 15:38|| Front Page Top

#13 This is about as disgusting a story as I have run across lately. It will make us no friends in a notably friendly country, one that is itself under siege by Islamic barbarians and their fifth column allies.
I was not an American citizen when I enlisted in the US Army in 1969. I had a year of service in Vietnam and a Purple Heart before I took the oath of citizenship. Apparently, if I had been killed there, my mother would not have been eligible for Gold Star membership. If I had bought the farm later, in DS1 or Somalia, she would have been eligible since she was an American citizen by then.
If the GSM cannot change their rules for this, rules that were idiotic in the first place, they are truly not worthy of anyone's support.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-05-27 15:50||   2005-05-27 15:50|| Front Page Top

#14 You know, it occurs to me that there are shortcuts (via Congressional Acts and the like) to making people American citizens.
Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-05-27 16:08|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]  2005-05-27 16:08|| Front Page Top

#15 Food/drink alert: Here's the lovely and talented Ann Herd herself.
Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-05-27 16:25|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]  2005-05-27 16:25|| Front Page Top

#16 Here's the lovely and talented Ann Herd herself.

eeeewwwwww.
Posted by muck4doo 2005-05-27 21:06|| http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]">[http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]  2005-05-27 21:06|| Front Page Top

#17 Its for mothers of US SOldiers that have died in wartime service to the nation.

The citizenship of the mother has NOTHING to do with the honor and sacrifice of her sons, for which the nation is grateful.

The "Gold Star Mothers" should wake the hell up and abolish this sitizenship rule.
Posted by OldSpook 2005-05-27 22:09||   2005-05-27 22:09|| Front Page Top

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