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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis Gold Star Mother is powerful!
Great speech from "this little old lady in Ohio."
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This Gold Star Mother is powerful! (Original Post)
pinboy3niner
Jul 2016
OP
When I worked for a nonprofit at the Wall in D.C. I met a lot of Gold Star families
pinboy3niner
Jul 2016
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MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)1. Wish I could recommend this post more than once. What a lovely lady.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)2. Wondeful
I love that regular folks are talking at the convention
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)4. When I worked for a nonprofit at the Wall in D.C. I met a lot of Gold Star families
When a Gold Star Mother took one of the books for sale and tried to pay for it, I told her she'd already paid more than enough. You can have any book you want. We hugged and cried.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)3. k/r
Such a departure from the Nuremberg rally last week.
ellie
(6,929 posts)5. I went to school
with her son Tom.
R B Garr
(16,950 posts)6. She was spectacular. Very likeable.
We loved her. Perfect intro for Obama.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)7. She did an outstanding job.