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 ...

The pin features a gold star with a purple background surrounded by laurel leaves. According to law, the United States military must present the lapel pin to the immediate family member of the ...

She was honorably discharged from the ANC in April 1953.The exact origins of this pin are unknown. It's possible that Lomax wore the pin after her retirement from the ANC as a patriotic symbol or as a ...

A war of words between Donald Trump and the parents of a Muslim U.S. soldier killed in Iraq in 2004 is dominating the election campaign.

Members wear the Gold Star Lapel Button, also called the Gold Star pin, that is given to a mother of a deceased military member by the U.S. Department of Defense. It is a gold star with a purple ...

The Army announced Feb. 5 that it will release three public service announcements over the next year to increase awareness of Department of Defense-issued Gold Star and next-of-kin lapel pins.

A mid-Michigan Gold Star family was presented with several military medals awarded to their late father, Capt. James McClain, for the time he served in the Vietnam War.

Gold Star Mother's Day has been observed nationally on the last Sunday in September since 1936 to honor mothers whose children died or went missing while serving in the military.

New legislation seeks to remove a cap that allows surviving spouses, called Gold Star spouses, to retain health care coverage through Tricare, the military’s health care program, as an “active ...