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Gold Star Mothers
National Monument Foundation
(GSMNMF)
4401-A Connecticut Ave. NW #343
Washington DC 20008
Phone
856-235-6918
or 610-328-1557
Contact Andrew Chernak for:
Contact webmaster for:
Leadership
Chairmen
Judith Young, GSM (PNP)
COL Ward Nickisch, (USA, Ret.)
Board of Directors
Executive Director
Andrew Chernak, Sculptor, Designer
Thomas Fortune Fay, ESQ
James M. Blaylock, MOPH
John Hanberry, Treasurer
Mary Miller, Secretary
Artie Muller, Rolling Thunde
Rich Sanders, VietNow
Rick Weidman, VVA
J. C. Cummings, Architect
Harvey Davis, Webmaster
Robert Doubek, Senior Consultant
Judi Tapper, GSM, Pin Sales
Jeffrey White, Archivist
Honorary Board Members
RADM John Higginson (USN, Ret.)
Gen P. X. Kelley, (USMC, Ret.)
Dorothy Oxendine, GSM (PNP)
Maj Gen Albert G. Rogers, (USAF, Ret.)
Brig Gen Wilma L. Vaught, (USAF, Ret.)
We Need Your Support
For those who wish to donate funds or know of individuals,
corporations, and other entities whom we could contact for
donations, please . Please make checks payable to: Gold Star Mothers
National Monument Foundation
and mail to our address
above.
Veterans Organizations:
Please support this cause. Your fallen
comrades are gone, not forgotten, we can still show our love for
them and their Mothers by financially supporting this Monument.
See the Gold
Star Mothers National Monument Blog for more information.
Interstate Batteries is helping to support the Monument Fund.
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Gold Star Mothers National Monument
Mission Statement
To honor the Mothers whose sons and daughters gave
their life in the service of our country. This monument is sponsored
by the Gold Star Mothers
National Monument Foundation. For all mothers who know the
grief of losing a child in the service of our country, to promote a
bond of kinship, and to engage in support for servicemen, the
Veterans community, and others who memorialized our nation's
defenders.
Commentary
by Andrew L. Chernak, Sculptor/Designer
The loss of a child in any circumstance is a grievous blow to a
family, but,
uniquely so to the mother who bore that child. One
group of Mothers that especially stands apart from the norm are the
Gold Star Mothers of America's fallen heroes. They are patriotic,
loyal, and sympathetic. They understand our nation’s freedom is not
to be taken for granted. The grief and loss these women have endured
never leaves them, yet the Mothers rise above their pain in tribute
to life going on. The Mothers have collectively served millions of
hours in volunteer work, personal service in our nation's Veterans
hospitals, and to the Veteran and his family in their community. In
serving this way, the Mothers have turned their grief into a
positive force. If you want to know quiet greatness, spend a little
time in the presence of a Gold Star Mother.
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NH Gold Star Mothers
Statue Unveiled.
The American Civil War Museum Complex in
Gettysburg, PA hosted the
Gold Star Mothers New England Regional
Monument and sculptor Andrew Chernak for a
ceremony honoring our Nation’s Gold Star
Mothers on Saturday, August 14, 2010 for a
special unveiling and service honoring the
Gold Star Mother statue that was in transit
to permanently reside in New Hampshire.
More photos courtesy of
Patrick J. Hughes Photography.
Enabling Legislation
The Gold Star Mothers National Monument Act of 2009,
HR 4197, was introduced on 12/3/2009. The bill authorizes the Gold
Star Mothers National Monument Foundation to establish a monument in
the District of Columbia area, as a unit of the National Park
System, to be known as the Gold Star Mothers National Monument.
Bill Text,
Bill Status,
Cosponsors |
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