[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 11868]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                     A TRIBUTE TO GOLD STAR MOTHERS

  Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. President, today I take this opportunity to call to 
the attention of our colleagues the national convention of the American 
Gold Star Mothers which began on Sunday, June 24 and concludes 
tomorrow, June 27, 2001, in Knoxville, TN.
  The Gold Star Mothers is an organization made up of American mothers 
who lost a son or daughter while in military service to our country in 
one of the wars. The group was founded shortly after the First World 
War for those special mothers to comfort one another and to help care 
for hospitalized veterans confined in government hospitals far from 
home. It was named after the Gold Star that families hung in their 
windows in honor of a deceased veteran. Gold Star Mothers now has 200 
chapters throughout the United States, and its members continue to 
perpetuate the ideals for which so many of our sons and daughters died.
  Over this past Memorial Day weekend, I participated in the Rolling 
Thunder rally on the National Mall to honor our Nation's veterans and 
remember those missing in action. During that time, I personally met 
some of the Gold Star mothers and was moved by their compassion, their 
commitment and the sacrifices they and their families have made for our 
country.
  I ask my colleagues to join me in recognizing the Gold Star Mothers 
for their many years of dedicated service and congratulating them on 
the occasion of their national convention.

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