Woman Drops Bid to Become Gold Star Mother

[RamboLiberal]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/05/30/national/a063444D67.DTL&sn=006&sc=781

A Yonkers woman has dropped her bid to become a Gold Star Mother. Ligaya Lagman was denied acceptance by the organization of mothers who have lost sons and daughter in combat because she is not a U.S. citizen.

Bob Foster of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Eastchester tells the Journal News that Lagman is shaken up by all the attention she has gotten and she wants to stay on the sidelines. But she wants to see the rules changed so other mothers are not turned down like she was.

Lagman came to the United States from the Philippines in 1983. She is a permanent resident but not a citizen. Foster says she is busy caring for her husband, who is seriously ill. Lagman's son, Anthony, was killed in a firefight in Afghanistan last year at age 26.

Veterans and politicians, among others, called for American Gold Star Mothers to change its policy to allow noncitizen mothers of fallen soldiers into the organization, after reports that Lagman had been excluded from the group.

[IndianaGreen]

1. The board for American Gold Star Mothers should resign in shame!

Xenophobic bitches! How dare they treat a mother from a fallen soldier this way.

[Richard Steele]

2. Them there "Real Murkins" don't want her kind 'round here...

Hey, it's not like BROWN people even love their children the same way we do, right?

Sure, her son served honorably and died in the line of duty...but it's not like he was WHITE or anything!

You liberals just look for any excuse to make a fuss, don't you?

(The above is SARCASM when I say it...but I think it pretty much sums up the REAL feelings of the 'Gold Star Mothers' and their ilk.)

[President Jesus]

3. don't be a dick, Mr. Steele. It's about xenophobia and nationalism...

...not race.

There are a ton of black and latino mothers in the Gold Star Mothers organization.

If you're going to use satire, at least know who and what you're aiming at.