Shukla joins the ranks of astronaut Rakesh Sharma, who is orbital astronaut number 138, and Kalpana Chawla, who is number 366 ...

Dorothy Sablan Lukeala, a Gold Star mother and keynote speaker at the Memorial Day Commemoration on May 26, 2025 at the Guam Veterans Cemetery in Piti, holds a flag that signifies a Gold Star ...

Jeane Stevens-Allen has always known about Gold Star mothers. She just never realized she was one. Almost 50 years after the death of her son, John Bradford Stevens, in the Vietnam War, the 88 ...

Elsewhere, the London-based jewellery label Completedworks – founded in 2013 – has released a decorative lapel pin made using recycled sterling silver plated with 14k yellow gold vermeil.

But her request for a Gold Star lapel pin got her the answer to a question that hasn't been answered all these years, until now. "As long as my mom was alive, his name was never mentioned," says ...

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.

The National Gold Star Family Registry lists 12,132 Hoosiers. ... Congress designated the Gold Star Lapel Pin,” according to a 2022 article for the Arlington National Cemetery website.

After two U.S. Senators co-sponsored a resolution designating Aug. 1 as National Gold Star Children’s Day last year, ... “They gave me a little gold star lapel pin and I was like, ...

Gold Star Lapel Pins and the Next of Kin Lapel Pins are presented to families not as an award, but as symbols of honor worn by family members in remembrance of their fallen loved ones and their ...

Lapel Pin. The Gold Star Wives of America was created in 1945 and the Department of Defense created the Gold Star Lapel Pin in the same year. The lapel pin features a star on a purple circular ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - Legislation to make more members of Gold Star families eligible to receive dedicated license plates has been introduced. House Bill 5078 is sponsored by State Senator ...