 Gold Star Mothers are those who have lost a son or daughter at war. Today is Gold Star Moms Sunday. It brings to mind a note from my friend Stan Mrzygod. Stan related how his 92-year-old mother, a World War II Women's Auxiliary Air Corps veteran, participated in an Honor Flight. On these one-day adventures, vets are flown free of charge to Washington D.C. -- in her case, from Chicago.
Writes Stan: "I was treated like a general," Mom said. She was one of 84 veterans and one of two women vets. She was selected to present a plaque at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. After being awake for 22 hours and constantly interacting, she was very exhausted but also very grateful. The statement that affected me the most was how several of the 90-year-old vets knelt before the engraved names of their sons on the Vietnam War Memorial, touched the granite stone and wept mightily. How sad it is that we forget so quickly.
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Julie Titone is co-author of the Grady Myers memoir "Boocoo Dinky Dow: My short, crazy Vietnam War." Grady was an M-60 machine gunner in The U.S. Army's Company C’s 2nd Platoon, 1st Battalion, 8th Regiment, 4th Infantry Division in late 1968 and early 1969. His Charlie Company comrades knew him as Hoss. Thoughts, comments? Send Julie an email. Archives
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