You’ve probably heard of the Blue Star Banners designed to honor your deplolyed troops, and the Gold Star Flags displayed in memorial by families of those who gave all in the service of our nation, but did you know that there is not a flag for your wounded warriors, until now that is.
America Supports You: Silver Star Families Honor Wounded
By Samantha L. Quigley
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 2006 – “Silver Star Families of America” has one focus: America’s war wounded.
“Our main mission is to make sure that the wounded of our armed forces are remembered,” the group’s founder Steven Newton said.
Newton, of Clever, Mo., founded the organization April 1, 2005, to establish a service banner that recognizes wounded American servicemembers of all conflicts. The idea was patterned after Gold Star Wives of America and Blue Star Mothers of America Inc. — groups that recognize spouses of servicemembers who die on active duty and the parents of children in the military, respectively.
Newton said he has made strides in initiating legislation to get the Silver Star banner recognized by Congress.
“I’ve been fighting this battle for a couple of years … to get the government to recognize it as an official banner,” he said. “I’ve talked to the military, … but it has to be an act of Congress.”
Learn more about this outstanding movement at Silver Star Families. Sgt Hook out.
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