Thank You Mom's Everywhere

Mother's Day 2012

In honor of Mom's everywhere and for all that they do, have done, and continue to do, I wanted to share with you all a special group of Mothers:

'Gold Star Mothers' - Thank you.

Here is a brief history regarding Gold Star Mothers...

When the United States entered World War I in 1917, George Vaughn Seibold, 23, volunteered, requesting assignment in aviation. He was sent to Canada where he learned to fly British planes since the United States had neither an air force nor planes. Deployed to England, he was assigned to the British Royal Flying Corps, 148th Aero Squadron. With his squadron, he left for combat duty in France. He corresponded with his family regularly. His mother, Grace Darling Seibold, began to do community service by visiting returning servicemen in the hospitals.

The mail from George stopped. Since all aviators were under British control and authority, the United States could not help the Seibold family with any information about their son.

Grace continued to visit hospitalized veterans in the Washington area, clinging to the hope that her son might have been injured and returned to the United States without any identification. While working through her sorrow, she helped ease the pain of the many servicemen who returned so war-damaged that they were incapable of ever reaching normalcy. READ MORE GOLD STAR HISTORY

Gold Star - Home Page - http://www.goldstarmoms.com/index.htm

Mom, thank you; I miss you and Happy Mother's Day