Gold Star families gather at Fort Hood

Gold Star families gather at Fort Hood
FORT HOOD – Family by family, children walked down a short red carpet to a line of official-looking men. They were prodded or carried forward by moms, grandpas, grandmas and aunts as they heard their dads' names called aloud.

The children bowed their heads like those they watched before them and a gold medal was slipped around their necks.

Children from 35 families were awarded the Presidential Gold Medal of Remembrance Sunday morning at Fort Hood's Resiliency Campus. The medal, issued by the White House Commission on Remembrance, recognizes and honors children who lost parents who lost their lives in combat or after returning from combat in the Middle East and Afghanistan, according to information from the commission.

"It effectively reminds everyone that casualties are found on the home front as well as on the battlefield," read information from www.remember.gov
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