For Gold Star families, Memorial Day is dedicated to their loved ones who never returned home. That includes the mother of Mohammed “Mo” Haitham, a 19-year-old naval aircrewman from St. Petersburg, ...

As David E. Wood, a retired Army brigadier general and Manheim Township resident, wrote in an LNP | LancasterOnline column ...

Congress later passed legislation stating that the families of those who die overseas shall receive a Gold Star lapel pin, a small, distinctive decoration with a gold star and purple background.

With Memorial Day days away, veterans and families of those who died in service of the United States say it is important to remember the meaning of the holiday and to honor those who gave their lives ...

If you see women dressed in a white shirt, dress and blazer with a gold star on their lapel this Memorial Day weekend D.C., ...

Many students at Everett Community College may not feel a personal connection to Memorial Day. But for Gold Star widow ...

“He thinks of them only because they are the casualties of his reckless decisions and policies,” Gold Star dad Steve Nikoui told The Post in a text message. “When he says he thinks of them ...

Becoming a Gold Star Mother is a profound and bittersweet distinction that no mother deserves or wants, yet many carry the distinction with a sense of pride and honor. It signifies that a mother ...

MILWAUKEE — Nearly three years after learning the gut-wrenching news that their loved ones were among the 13 killed at the Abbey Gate suicide bombing in Afghanistan, many Gold Star families ...