Pilgrimage of Remembrance Links
American Battle Monuments Commission
The U.S. Government agency that maintains America's military cemeteries on foreign soil.
American Gold Star Mothers
The official website of the American Gold Star Mothers, Inc., the official membership organization for Gold Star Mothers.
American Overseas Memorial Day Association
This patriotic group seeks to decorate overseas American cemeteries on the Memorial Day holiday. The group cooperates with the American Battle Monuments Commission to decorate the graves at all U.S. cemeteries for Memorial Day.
Gold Star Wives of America
Support group for wives of service members killed in battle. The organization has produced a documentary, Tears of Gold. Visit the Gold Star Wives of America website for more information.
Great War Society
This worldwide organization is devoted to the study of all aspects of the World War I.
McFarland & Company Publishers
Publisher of quality trade and reference books on numerous topics. Publisher of John W. Graham's book, The Gold Star Mother Pilgrimages of the 1930s
Operation Gold Star
The National Dusters, Quads, and Searchlights veterans group raises private funds to take Gold Star Mothers to Vietnam to see where their sons fought and died. The Gold Star Mother pilgrimages continue today!
National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial
Newly opened national museum and memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, dedicated to U.S. participation in World War I.
Over the Front
Published by the League of World War I Aviation Historians
"Over the Front" issue volume 19, no. 3 (Fall, 2004) published John W. Graham's story "Quentin Roosevelt and the Gold Star Mothers' Pilgrimages."
Pritzker Military Library
Leading independent military library, based in Chicago
The U.S. Army Mortuary Affairs
The U.S. Army Mortuary Affairs History Page, with good information on military funeral and burial practices of the past.
Veterans Affairs Department
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
WILL-TV
The PBS TV station at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. WILL-TV produced the 2003 documentary on the pilgrimages, Gold Star Mothers: Pilgrimage of Remembrance.
Western Front Association
International association dedicated to research and education on the Great War.
White House Commission on Remembrance
This bipartisan commission encourages Americans to remember fallen servicemen and women from all wars. It organizes special activities of remembrance each year on Memorial Day.
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