There is what is NOW called the Blue Star Moms and I guess Dads too, it means you had a person die in combat - usually the Marines were what I hear when I think Blue Star Moms. delilah ----- Original Message ----- From: <MrsTroupe@aol.com> To: <WORLDWAR2-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 7:11 PM Subject: [WORLD WAR II] insignia identification question | today I bought a box of loose jewelry which contained some military items. | An Honorable Discharge pin and a gold star pin with a single bar or a 1 on | it, I am thinking it is a bar. Blue background. Does anyone know what the star | pin is about. | Sherry | | | ==== WORLDWAR2 Mailing List ==== | Please do not send virus warnings to the list. If you have concerns about a virus, contact your list admin or join VIRUS-DISCUSSIONS-L@rootsweb.com subscribe in the subject line. We are an international list. Please remember to tell us what country your ancestor was from and what country you are in now if different. This helps us help you. If you give dates please help us understand the date you are referring to. For example: 4 Nov 1944 or Nov 4, 1944. | | ============================== | Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. | New content added every business day. Learn more: | http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx |

FYI: A blue star mothers pin is about the size of a Lt. bar a blue star on a white field and a red border. with 1 2 OR 3 stars on the white field. I recently gave one to a Mom who had 2 children in Iraqi. Paul Hinkle Delilah <diamond6468@mindspring.com> wrote: There is what is NOW called the Blue Star Moms and I guess Dads too, it means you had a person die in combat - usually the Marines were what I hear when I think Blue Star Moms. delilah ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 7:11 PM Subject: [WORLD WAR II] insignia identification question | today I bought a box of loose jewelry which contained some military items. | An Honorable Discharge pin and a gold star pin with a single bar or a 1 on | it, I am thinking it is a bar. Blue background. Does anyone know what the star | pin is about. | Sherry | | | ==== WORLDWAR2 Mailing List ==== | Please do not send virus warnings to the list. If you have concerns about a virus, contact your list admin or join VIRUS-DISCUSSIONS-L@rootsweb.com subscribe in the subject line. We are an international list. Please remember to tell us what country your ancestor was from and what country you are in now if different. This helps us help you. If you give dates please help us understand the date you are referring to. For example: 4 Nov 1944 or Nov 4, 1944. | | ============================== | Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. | New content added every business day. Learn more: | http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx | ==== WORLDWAR2 Mailing List ==== We welcome tributes of your World War II ancestors. We are an international list. Please remember to tell us what country your ancestor was from and what country you are in now if different. This helps us help you. If you give dates please help us understand the date you are referring to. For example: 4 Nov 1944 or Nov 4, 1944. ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx Yahoo is my non-personal mail. For personal mail only use <pdhinkle@radiotower.net> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

I think they even have decals and flags - there are also groups who get together that are in the same area, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Hinkle" <pdhinkle@yahoo.com> To: <WORLDWAR2-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 3:14 PM Subject: Re: [WORLD WAR II] insignia identification question | FYI: A blue star mothers pin is about the size of a Lt. bar a blue star on a white field and a red border. with 1 2 OR 3 stars on the white field. I recently gave one to a Mom who had 2 children in Iraqi. Paul Hinkle | | Delilah <diamond6468@mindspring.com> wrote: There is what is NOW called the Blue Star Moms and I guess Dads too, it | means you had a person die in combat - usually the Marines were what I hear | when I think Blue Star Moms. | delilah | ----- Original Message ----- | From: | To: | Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 7:11 PM | Subject: [WORLD WAR II] insignia identification question | | || today I bought a box of loose jewelry which contained some military | items. || An Honorable Discharge pin and a gold star pin with a single bar or a 1 | on || it, I am thinking it is a bar. Blue background. Does anyone know what the | star || pin is about. || Sherry || || || ==== WORLDWAR2 Mailing List ==== || Please do not send virus warnings to the list. If you have concerns about | a virus, contact your list admin or join VIRUS-DISCUSSIONS-L@rootsweb.com | subscribe in the subject line. We are an international list. Please | remember to tell us what country your ancestor was from and what country you | are in now if different. This helps us help you. If you give dates please | help us understand the date you are referring to. For example: 4 Nov 1944 | or Nov 4, 1944. || || ============================== || Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. || New content added every business day. Learn more: || http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx || | | | | ==== WORLDWAR2 Mailing List ==== | We welcome tributes of your World War II ancestors. We are an international list. Please remember to tell us what country your ancestor was from and what country you are in now if different. This helps us help you. If you give dates please help us understand the date you are referring to. For example: 4 Nov 1944 or Nov 4, 1944. | | ============================== | Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the | last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx | | | | | Yahoo is my non-personal mail. For personal mail only use <pdhinkle@radiotower.net> | __________________________________________________ | Do You Yahoo!? | Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around | http://mail.yahoo.com | | | ==== WORLDWAR2 Mailing List ==== | We welcome tributes of your World War II ancestors. We are an international list. Please remember to tell us what country your ancestor was from and what country you are in now if different. This helps us help you. If you give dates please help us understand the date you are referring to. For example: 4 Nov 1944 or Nov 4, 1944. | | ============================== | Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. | Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx |