The Gold Star Lapel Button, designed and created in 1947, is awarded by the government to surviving families of service members who were killed in action.

Donna Engeman started wearing the Gold Star lapel pin after her husband, Chief Warrant Officer John Engeman, was killed southeast of Baghdad on May 14, 2006. She wanted to honor and remember the ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- On this Memorial Day the Army is highlighting one of the ways military survivors can make others aware of their sacrifice - they're called Gold Star pins. They are small lapel pins ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. - This year, the U.S. Army's Installation Management Command, or IMCOM, launched an awareness campaign aimed to educate Americans about Gold Star and Next-of-Kin lapel ...

Two Gold Star lapel buttons are given to military families. The traditional Gold Star pin was created in the 1940s to honor the surviving parents or spouses of service members who died in combat.

The lapel pin features a star on a purple circular background and can only be worn by the immediate family of service members killed in combat. A similar pin was created in 1973.

The Gold Star lapel pin is awarded to immediate family members of U.S. service members who lost their lives in combat against an enemy of the U.S., while serving with allied forces in combat, in ...

The gold star denoting a family member who died in combat dates back to World War I, but before last week, the phrase "Gold Star family" wasn't as widely known as it was during World War II.

Though the Gold Star and next-of-kin lapel pins are a Department of Defense program, the Army's San Antonio-based Installation Management Command took on the mission of developing the campaign, as ...

The Gold Star Lapel Pin has a gold star on a purple background.It is bordered in gold and surrounded by gold laurel leaves. This design was established by an act of Congress on Aug. 1, 1947 to ...