Single .03 Cent US Postal Stamp Gold Star Mothers 1948 S969

This is a single stamp as pictured (centering may differ from stock photo) ~ In 1917, Robert Queissner, an Army captain, designed a flag to honor the service of his sons in World War I. The flag had a blue star on a white field, with a red border. It caught on quickly – by September of the same year, it had been adopted by Ohio Governor James Cox. This encouraged a group of women to form the “American War Mothers” group in Indiana, and it rapidly spread. Membership included women who had children serving in the war. The flag took on a somber tone, when women whose sons died in the war began to sew a gold star over the blue one. In May 1918, the Women’s Committee of National Defenses proposed to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson that mothers who had lost a family member to the conflict wear a black band with a gold star. Wilson agreed, and called them “Gold Star Mothers.”