{"id":276035,"date":"2024-09-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=276035"},"modified":"2024-09-12T06:20:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T06:20:30","slug":"army-invites-community-to-honor-gold-star-mothers-and-familys-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=276035","title":{"rendered":"Army invites community to honor Gold Star Mother\u2019s and Family\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"documentlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/api.army.mil\/e2\/c\/downloads\/2024\/09\/10\/2b847e27\/mr-2024-09-10-gold-star-mothers-and-familys-day-ceremony.pdf\" title=\"Download Here:\">Download Here:<\/a> [PDF &#8211; 149.1 KB]<\/p>\n<p>Media Advisory<\/p>\n<p>Public Affairs Office, U.S. Army Garrison, Hawai&#8217;i<\/p>\n<p>(808)787-1529<\/p>\n<p>Release number: 2024-09-10<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 10, 2024<\/p>\n<p><strong>SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawai&#8217;i<\/strong> \u2013 Army officials invite the community to take part in honoring the mothers and families of fallen service members at a ceremony at Punchbowl, the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Sept. 29, at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>During the Gold Star Mother\u2019s and Family\u2019s Day ceremony, surviving mothers and families of fallen service members, or \u201cGold Star mothers and families,\u201d will place the boots of their lost loved ones, as well as a lei of honor and remembrance, at the foot of the Lady Columbia statue. Lady Columbia stands tall at the cemetery, representing all grieving families of the Armed Forces, as she vigilantly watches over the fallen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe owe our deepest gratitude and respect to these families who have survived such heartbreaking losses,\u201d said Col. Rachel Sullivan, Commander, U.S. Army Garrison-Hawai&#8217;i, and ceremony host. \u201cTheir strength and resilience is both humbling and inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1936, Franklin D. Roosevelt designated the last Sunday in September as Gold Star Mother\u2019s Day.\u00a0In 2011, President Barrack Obama amended the last Sunday in September to be recognized as Gold Star Mother\u2019s and Family\u2019s Day..<\/p>\n<p>The display of the Gold Star dates back to World War I.\u00a0Families would display a blue star flag for every member serving in the war. If that family lost a child in combat, they would switch out the blue star with a gold star.<\/p>\n<p><strong>-30-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MEDIA NOTE:\u00a0<\/strong>Interested media should contact the USAG-HI Public Affairs Office to attend the event or request photographs.\u00a0Please R.S.V.P. no later than 4 p.m., Sept. 25. Contact Mr. Michael Donnelly, External Communications, at (808) 398-9407.<\/p>\n<p>For information about the event, reach out to the Survivor Outreach Services Coordinator (SOSC), at (808) 787-4227.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download Here: [PDF &#8211; 149.1 KB] Media Advisory Public Affairs Office, U.S. Army Garrison, Hawai&#8217;i (808)787-1529 Release number: 2024-09-10 Sept. 10, 2024 SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawai&#8217;i \u2013 Army officials invite the community to take part in honoring the mothers and families of fallen service members at a ceremony at Punchbowl, the National Memorial Cemetery of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276036,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276035\/revisions\/276036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}