The following are some facts about Gold Star Families: * What are Gold Star Families?
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"Running for president is not an entitlement to disrespect [a] Gold Star family and [a] Gold Star mother," Khizr Khan.
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The "child option," as it's called, channels an average of $925 per month from Gold Star spouses to Gold Star children.
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Gold Star families do not comprise a formal organization, but several organizations representing Gold Star family members emerged during the 20th century.
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Gold Star Executive Membership: With the Gold Star Executive, you get two cards plus 21.08% rewards on all purchases for $22 per year.
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The military awards each family an official flag bearing a gold star or a lapel pin with a gold star on a purple background.
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"For him to have done this and played games with Gold Star families is absolutely unacceptable -- Gold Star families are sacred," Duckworth said Wednesday.
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While Julia will be able to afford a $60 Costco Gold Star card, she won't be able to be a Gold Star Executive member.
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It's grown in that vets had a chance to meet other vets and Gold Star families had a chance to meet other Gold Star families.
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He's a Gold Star Executive member, a higher tier of membership which is double what a regular Gold Star membership costs at $120 a year.
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An organization called The Gold Star Wives was formed before the end of World War Two, and the Gold Star Lapel Button was created in 1947.
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But research has shown that children tasked with doing drawings for a reward—a gold star—become disinterested and do worse drawings compared with children not given a gold star; the gold-star kids apparently start to presume that the reward is their real motivation, not their love of drawing.
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But Gold Star mothers have a unique place in American history because membership comes at such an unimaginably painful price; being a Gold Star mother is akin to sainthood.
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As a Gold Star daughter — and, to be clear, I am not speaking for all Gold Star families — I'm not offended by what is happening in the N.F.L. right now.
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Trump began his latest venture into the bizarre and self-destructive by insulting a Gold Star mother and Gold Star father of an Iraq war hero who happened to be Muslim.
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Nonetheless, he gets a gold star just for being there.
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Eleven Gold Star families wrote a letter slamming Trump's comments.
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Nor was any strategist behind attacking a Gold Star family.
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They want a gold star to slap on their website.
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Gold Star families are families where somebody didn't come home.
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But Gold Star Father Craig Gross, whose son was Cpl.
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Embrace the mockery of the disabled or Gold Star families?
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Trump starts a Twitter war with a gold star widow.
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"Trump is totally void of any decency because he is unaware of how to talk to a Gold Star family and how to speak to a Gold Star mother," Mr. Khan said on Saturday.
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The $60 Gold Star membership comes with a $10 card, while the $120 Gold Star Executive membership includes a $20 card, both of which can be used in stores, online, and at Costco gas stations.
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Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas" on Twitter, or criticizing a Gold Star family.
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One day, the heartbroken man talked to another Gold Star father.
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Any other — someone who knows a Gold Star fallen person. John.
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Teri Johnson, a Gold Star mother who lost her son, Sgt.
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Nobody's saying they aren't Gold Star parents; they lost their kid.
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I told them I was a Gold Star wife, starting over.
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EDT: Vice President Pence hosts a reception for Gold Star wives.
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Trump also didn't talk about the NFL or Gold Star families.
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He's desperate to sway public's support for the gold star mom.
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He didn't lose him when he mocked grieving Gold Star parents.
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You got very angry in regards to the gold star father.
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Any other — someone who knows a Gold Star fallen person. John?
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As an approval-seeking person, I always want a gold star.
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Jonathan Dunbar, lost his life -- creating another Gold Star family. Sgt.
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I was figuring this would not be a gold star moment.
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Are we really surprised that Trump offended a Gold Star family?
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Lower than his questioning the motives of a Gold Star family.
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He doesn't get a gold star for not shaking down his constituents.
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A gold star is a minor reward, but it is a reward.
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"Gold Star families are special, to say the least," said retired Gen.
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After the DNC, he spent a week attacking a gold-star family.
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He has insulted minorities, women, a war hero and Gold Star parents.
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They perceived it as an attack on a fellow Gold Star family.
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The term Gold Star Families was widely used after World War Two.
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The worst thing I've ever been called is a Gold Star mom.
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This time, though, the war of words involves a Gold Star family.
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"Politics has no place in the Gold Star community," Monti told Tapper.
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"These Gold Star families have sacrificed more than we can ever imagine."
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We didn't have the Gold Star terminology when I was growing up.
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Ms. Khan is a Gold Star Mother, and we explain the term.
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One of the biggest of these gold star boys weighed 5,3003 pounds.
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It's a pin of honor that no one wants: the Gold Star.
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" Nor when he belittled a Gold Star mother: "She was standing there.
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CBS' "Face the Nation" - Mulvaney; Lankford and Gold Star father Khizr Khan.
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"There's only one way to talk about Gold Star parents," Kasich wrote.
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"They don't get a gold star for suddenly being charitable," Rea said.
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Or, if we want extra credit and a gold star, 1.5 degrees.
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" After talking to other Gold Star parents, Strange found, "We're all the same.
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America can do better by its Gold Star families in so many ways.
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Owens wore the gold star he'd been presented at his son's death. Rep.
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He fought with Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan during the campaign.
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This was Trump's takeaway after a call with Gold Star widow Myeshia Johnson.
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That doesn't mean UCF gets a gold star for doing what it should.
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For Trump, even Bronze Star recipients and Gold Star families are fair game.
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The gold star refers to the centerpiece of flags given to these families.
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She later met Obama at a White House event for Gold Star families.
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"Gold Star families do not want to be involved in politics," Monti said.
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Methodical accounts of calls made by Obama to Gold Star families were uncovered.
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Washington (CNN)It is venerated status that no one wants: Gold Star family.
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Mr. Trump's disparagement of a Gold Star family had not helped, he said.
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Her memoir, "Unremarried Widow," delves into her experience as a Gold Star wife.
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It is a gold star on a purple background, surrounded by laurel leaves.
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The company has yet to give hackers anything more than a gold star.
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I don't get a gold star for just being a good person. 36.
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The gold star standard for financial planners is holding the CFP® marks.
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Frederica Wilson, or bungling a call with an African-American Gold Star widow.
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He told Trump to stop picking on Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father.
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Kelly is a retired four Marine Corps general and a Gold Star father.
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He attacks the Khan Gold Star family simply because they are Muslim-Americans.
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She wears a gold Star of David pendant and earrings inscribed in Hebrew.
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Trump insulted POWs, attacked Gold Star families, & says PTSD is for the weak.
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The Post reported that it had made contact with 6900 Gold Star families.
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"That&aposs exactly the kind of person he was," the Gold Star wife said.
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Under current law, Gold Star spouses cannot receive the full amount of both benefits.
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The last Sunday of September is observed as Gold Star Mothers' and Families' Day.
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When it comes to the workhorse summer color, white gets the proverbial gold star.
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Julia's $78-a-year raise only covers the basic $60 Costco Gold Star card.
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She's not worried about the taxiway landing ... she says Ford's a Gold Star customer.
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Sanders also addressed the controversy surrounding President Trump and calls to Gold Star families.
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He does worse when he gets into high-profile fights with Gold Star parents.
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Before he was elected, Mr. Trump attacked a Gold Star Family and disparaged Sen.
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Etienne Murphy -- and all the other Gold Star moms ... all those who are grieving.
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I went to three specialists: Skyline Chili, Camp Washington Chili and Gold Star Chili.
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This was not the first time that the President tangled with Gold Star families.
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Chris Christie cannot rationalize Mr. Trump's unrelenting attack on Gold Star Pakistani-American parents.
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And there won't likely be questions about his attack on a Gold Star family.
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Check out images of the Gold Star Project and some incredible public murals below.
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He might have even earned a gold star on the chore chart at home.
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Theresa and the boys do a lot of activities with other Gold Star families.
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Trump slandered war heroes and Gold Star parents despite getting repeated deferments from Vietnam.
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Thank you to the Gold Star families that joined us in celebration & remembrance. pic.twitter.
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Let me ask you this: Is anyone here a Gold Star parent or sibling?
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"Donald Trump spent months attacking an ACTUAL Gold Star Family," she added on Twitter.
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He picks fights with anyone and everyone -- a Gold Star family, the Pope, etc.
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Soleimani more than they mourn our Gold Star families who are the ones who
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The nonprofit also issued a statement opposing "the use of and reference to" the gold star in antiwar demonstrations by a group calling itself Gold Star Families for Peace, which was led by Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq in 2004.
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How do you not cover the president going after a Gold Star family, another widow?
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" A group of 11 Gold Star families described Trump's actions as "repugnant and personally offensive.
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Consulting with mental health experts and other Gold Star parents, Strange organized four weekend workshops.
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They had seen him lash out at a Gold Star family and at Alicia Machado.
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A luxurious, solid gold star might adorn the top of the Swarovski crystal-adorned tree.
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Who can forget his relentless attacks on a war hero and a gold star family?
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Nehlen, a man who defended Trump's attack on the Gold Star parents of the Capt.
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Trump now reserves his ire for journalists and news outlets rather than Gold Star families.
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On Tuesday, the Senate approved the Gold Star Family Tax Relief Act by unanimous consent.
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The next night, they hosted a reception at the White House for Gold Star families.
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EDT: President Trump and first lady Melania Trump hold a reception for Gold Star families.
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Trump attacks: POWs, Mexicans, Muslims, disabled reporter, military & intel officers, Gold Star Parents, John Lewis.
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Gold star Astronomers are geeked about seeing for the first time two neutron stars collide.
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In the afternoon, the president will participate in the Gold Star families Memorial Day reception.
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He has regularly demeaned and demonized immigrants, belittling the Gold Star mother of Army Capt.
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Each time, she lived in fear that she, too, would become a Gold Star parent.
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Five Gold Star families whose children served with Bellavia and were killed were also recognized.
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If the service member is killed, the blue star is replaced with a gold star.
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Several Gold Star families have also come forward, saying that the president didn't call them.
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At one point, Kelly only called on journalists who said they knew Gold Star families.
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They would rather Trump spent a little less time attacking Gold Star families, for example.
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But what Kelly is saying doesn't come from his experience as a Gold Star father.
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Melania Trump attended a White House event to honor Gold Star families on Monday night.
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The first lady accompanied the president to a reception honoring Gold Star families on Monday.
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Trump had received five draft deferments and had very publicly insulted one Gold Star family.
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Was it politics, or evil, when candidate Trump smeared a Gold Star family in 2016?
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How does Donald Trump malign Gold Star families and then claim to "love" the military?
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"That's kind of like the gold star, it's where we invent the future," said Rep.
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A "Gold Star" in military parlance is someone who lost a close family member to combat.
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The Michael Strange Foundation sprang from Charles Strange's own fitful journey as a Gold Star father.
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Instead, Rodriguez says, the grief-stricken Valerie insisted on helping Rodriguez and other Gold Star spouses.
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Kelly and wife attended Gold Star families breakfast at WH in 2011 and sat at Mrs.
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In the space of a couple of weeks, he has insulted a gold star family, ejected
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The night one gold star shookloose from blue firmament, I learnedthey were neither star nor blue.
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His attack on a Gold Star family who lost a son in Iraq went badly wrong.
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If that wasn't a mark against him, why is the opposite a gold star for Trump?
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And think about this: The only Gold Star families you have attacked are people of color.
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Too many spouses, families, children, friends still missing them today, now identified with a gold star.
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Meanwhile, a US congresswoman accuses the President of making insensitive comments to a Gold Star widow.
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The church lights illuminate a small pin on his lapel that says everything: Gold Star father.
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He retaliated against Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the Gold Star parents of an American Muslim soldier.
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"Another Gold Star mom whose son is buried here too came to visit Beck," she said.
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Many people accused Mr. Trump of failing to respect Gold Star families by attacking Mr. Khan.
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Kelly, who is himself a Gold Star father, defended the president on Thursday while criticizing Wilson.
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Addressing Gold Star families in attendance, Biden noted that it was the anniversary of Beau's death.
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Addressing Gold Star families in attendance, Biden noted that it was the anniversary of Beau's death.
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It's hard to miss a pointed bit in which Obama tells a group of troops that he has spent time mourning "with Gold Star families" in the same stretch of months in which Trump was feuding pointlessly with a Gold Star family that dared to criticize him.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will host Gold Star families at the White House on Monday, an event that comes almost a year after Trump infamously got into a back-and-forth with a Gold Star family during the 2016 campaign.
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Heartless, power-hungry liberals snatch guns away from poor, defenseless citizens while openly mocking Gold Star widows.
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She shared the story of her son, Humayun, and spoke about life as a Gold Star mother.
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And now, with Veterans Day quickly approaching, the immediate financial future of Gold Star families is uncertain.
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Advocates say that is a problem for Congress to solve, not for Gold Star families to bear.
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All because there's a gold star at the end, something that says I excelled at something meaningless.
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After reemerging Monday evening at a closed-press White House ceremony to honor Gold Star families, Mrs.
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It's moisturizing and has all the slip required to spread across my face without tugging — gold star!
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Had he read that, he would know the status a Gold Star mother holds in this nation.
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"There's only one way to talk about Gold Star parents: with honor and respect," tweeted Ohio Gov.
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Trump's guests include a Gold Star family, multiple veterans and U.S. Border Patrol's second-in-command. Sen.
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Trump's "proof" of the contents of his call to gold star widow Myesha Johnson, disputed by Rep.
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" Kelly said he gets "occasional letters from Gold Star families who are asking, 'Was it worth it?
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She became a rare ally to Trump after he criticized a Gold Star family after the DNC.
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In 1936, the United States began observing Gold Star Mothers Day on the last Sunday of September.
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MORE. They should have run away from Trump after he verbally attacked the gold star Khan family.
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" She suggested the White House "put someone else in charge of condolence calls to Gold Star families.
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And he needs to make the point that all Americans should speak tenderly to Gold Star families.
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The Secure Act corrects recent inadvertent increases in the taxes Gold Star Families pay on survivor benefits.
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His response to the Gold Star Khan family also met disapproval from a high percentage of people.
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Khan, the Gold Star family whose son, Captain Khan, died in the line of duty in Iraq.
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Did Trump and his campaign managers develop a strategy to attack a Gold Star mother and father?
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And we all remember when he lashed out at a Muslim Gold Star family after being criticized.
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To the left of Ayatollah Khomeini stood a twinkling Christmas tree, a gold star gilding its tip.
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"Bringing Gold Star families, their tragedy, their sacrifice to this political expediency," Khan told host Anderson Cooper.
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Get an entry-level Gold Star Membership for $60 and you can order stuff online for delivery.
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As a Gold Star father, Khizr Khan, pointed out, sacrifice is something Mr. Trump knows nothing about.
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His explicit comments about women, hesitance to disclaim white supremacists, insults of Gold Star families, 3 a.m.
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"But I'm not going to give him a gold star for showing up and doing his job."
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That status, as part of what the military calls a Gold Star family, puts him in the Cabinet of a presidential candidate who verbally attacked a Gold Star family: the Khans, Muslim-American immigrants who lost a son in Iraq and had criticized Trump at the Democratic National Convention.
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That status, as part of what the military calls a Gold Star family, puts him in the administration of a presidential candidate who verbally attacked a Gold Star family: the Khans, Muslim-American immigrants who lost a son in Iraq and had criticized Trump at the Democratic National Convention.
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In fact, he conducted blind taste tests and found most people couldn't distinguish between Skyline and Gold Star.
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In an open letter, 23 Gold Star families said Trump cheapened their sacrifice and called for an apology.
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On Saturday, Drew Justice, his fiancée and their Shih Tzu went for a walk in Gold Star Park.
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The Gold Star Wives organization was formed during World War II. On Monday, a new informal group emerged.
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President Bush remains deeply grateful for the sacrifice of all Gold Star families, as we all should be.
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Ted Cruz's father, his treatment of Gold Star father Khizr Khan, his role in spreading lies about Pres.
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I wouldn't get a gold star on my son's birth certificate that differentiated me from the other moms.
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This is the same base that excused Trump for demeaning a Gold Star family during the 22019 campaign.
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"Politically this is sacred ... Gold Star families have incredible sacred credibility and should be off limits," he added.
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Khan contends Trump has little sympathy for Gold Star families, little respect for men and women in uniform.
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Gold Star was not substantially different from Skyline, but has a slightly more fast-food atmosphere to it.
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His attack on a Gold Star mother was a moral blasphemy that cannot be defended, explained or forgiven.
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Trump's remarks come two years after he feuded with two Gold Star families — that of US Army Sgt.
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He said lawmakers have been working to fix the issue for Gold Star families since it was discovered.
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But it's not clear whether Ms. Khan is a member of the organization, American Gold Star Mothers Inc.
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America, if we want to do something for Gold Star families, how about we begin by remembering them?
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Gold Star families and disabled veterans would have been given front-row access and the respect they deserve.
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Similarly, the "Pole star?" at 29D is SANTA CLAUS, and the "Gold star?" is the gymnast SIMONE BILES.
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Is it time for a biography of Khizr Khan, the gold star military father from the 2016 convention?
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Kelly who is not offended by Trump's disgraceful attacks on John McCain and the Gold Star Khan family.
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What will the gatekeepers of privilege do when confronted with gold-star applicants who have a criminal record?
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Those comments are expected to be rebuked by Gold Star father Khizr Khan, who will appear on CBS.
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The East Wing also hosted the Gold Star Family tree, which honors America's Armed Forces and their families.
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Trump's call to Gold Star family "symptomatic of what I think is afflicting our country right now." pic.twitter.
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Khan, the parents of Han who died serving our country, a gold star family because of their religion.
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I stretched on the sidewalk and watched a small group of women, each wearing a gold star, run by.
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The first lady is expected to join President Donald Trump on Monday at an event honoring Gold Star families.
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Ornaments honoring fallen members of the US military hang on a tree dedicated to Gold Star families on Nov.
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Reuters reached out to a dozen Muslim Gold Star families who lost a loved one in action after Sept.
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Many times Gold Star families can feel isolated because they no longer share that connection to the military community.
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John McCain's military record and comments he made about a Gold Star family that spoke at the Democratic convention.
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Earlier in October, Kelly got involved in President Trump's feud with a Gold Star family by accusing US Rep.
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He detailed a list of other chores he'd completed, giving me a bright smile, waiting for his gold star.
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Some of Trump's actions -- suggesting falsely that Obama had not contacted Gold Star families and, according to Democratic Rep.
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That it escalated into a direct confrontation with a gold star widow reflects the president's inability to let go.
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"I believe that (Trump) has a very good heart as far as Gold Star families is concerned," Gross said.
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When he attacked a Gold Star family for speaking at the Democratic National Convention, he didn't suffer for it.
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Following the reports on Johnson and his family, Trump's outreach to Gold Star families has fallen under intense scrutiny.
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Reach out to a Gold Star Family in your community, and listen to the story they have to tell.
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I thought of all the Gold Star mothers, fathers and wives I had met while covering the Iraq War.
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Trump ignited controversy Monday when he said, incorrectly, that President Obama had not made calls to Gold Star families.
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It was Stone who called a CNN commentator a "stupid Negro" and accused the Gold Star parents of Capt.
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In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a proclamation declaring the last Sunday in September Gold Star Mother's Day.
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Many would also agree that things that used to be sacred no longer are — women, religion, Gold Star families.
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What does it mean when the president, say, offers a grieving Gold Star family $25,000 but doesn't pay up?
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Still, I wanted to know why all of my gold-star worthy brush and floss routine wasn't doing jack.
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The basic Gold Star membership at Costco costs $21 per year, but the membership pays for itself with savings.
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Khan's fundraising plea came after controversy over callous remarks Trump was accused of making to a Gold Star widow.
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They mourn Suleimani more than they mourn our Gold Star families who are the ones who suffered under Suleimani.
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They mourned Soleimani more than they mourn our Gold Star families who are the ones who suffered under Soleimani.
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Gold Star families are demanding an apology from Trump and the Veterans of Foreign Wars have denounced the remarks.
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It basically amounts to a gold star, with a logo that can be added to a production's end credits.
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Obama, however, did host Kelly at a breakfast for Gold Star families about six months after his son died.
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He repeatedly attacked residents Khizr and Ghazala Khan, Gold Star parents who spoke at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
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" Flake then went on to list several of Trump's most controversial moments, including his public feud with Gold Star father Khizr Khan and his rhetoric toward North Korea leader Kim Jong Un. "How many more disgraceful public feuds with Gold Star families can we witness in silence before we ourselves are disgraced?
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Also, he tolerated my compete and utter justice obsessed fan girl moment with such grace, he deserves a gold star.
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Trump is scheduled to join the president Monday in hosting a reception, closed to the press, for Gold Star families.
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Gold Star did not respond to requests for comment, and Wayne Banks, owner of Chaos and Pain, declined to comment.
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Another Gold Star father said Trump had offered him $25,000 and an online fundraiser for his family, which never materialized.
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Humayun Khan is an American hero and his family, like all Gold Star families, should be cherished by every American.
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In 1947, the US Congress passed a law authorizing and distributing Gold Star lapel pins for family members to wear.
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In a phone call to express condolences to Gold Star widow Myeshia Johnson, he said her late husband Army Sgt.
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It is deplorable to demean a Gold Star family and propose to ban all Muslims from entering the United States.
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Jaclyn Mariano, who had lost a parent to the war in Iraq, wanted to publicize the nonprofit Gold Star Families.
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According to Politico, Kelly sat with former First Lady Michelle Obama during a dinner for Gold Star families in 2011.
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I would never — I don't care what they say, you'll never hear me question anything about a Gold Star family.
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As the gold star tradition took hold, families covered the blue star with a gold one to symbolize their loss.
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The National Gold Star Family Registry notes on its website that 472,045 fallen service members have been registered by relatives.
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One of the things that encouraged me to have the VetsAid shows is that I was a Gold Star kid.
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"When I meet with Gold Star families, I feel that all the fallen were my sons and daughters," Mattis writes.
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Tier 1 gets a shiny gold star next to their name, along with extra pay, bonuses, and preferred job access.
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The president and first lady Melania Trump host a White House reception for Gold Star families at 5:21625 p.m.
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Khan, the parents of a young man who died serving our country, a Gold Star family, because of their religion.
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Whoever is brave enough to recreate and eat this mega-treat at their upcoming holiday cookout deserves a gold star.
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At least Romney has not feuded with Gold Star families, which is more than can be said for our President.
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It wasn't just because Kelly is himself a Gold Star father — his son Robert was killed in Afghanistan in 2010.
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All-in-all, I wouldn't say that we were gold star isolators, but that we did a very good job.
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Gold Star father Khizr Khan's "freedom to travel abroad" is reportedly under review, and he says he doesn't know why.
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As a "gold star" passenger, Aurora is entitled to a sumptuous breakfast, while Jim has to settle for cold cereal.
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It debases the nation when the president challenges the veracity of a Gold Star widow at her moment of bereavement.
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Costco's program offers lender fees of $650 or less for gold star members and $350 or less for executive members.
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He didn't apologize for his hurtful comments about two Gold Star parents or about an Indiana-born judge of Mexican heritage.
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The camaraderie is important, Anderson says, because other people often don't understand what it's like to be a Gold Star parent.
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It's not an ineffective way to get a poll done quickly, but this certainly isn't a gold star on Nadia's record.
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I think I've only had Gold Star once and it doesn't taste the same to me as any other Cincinnati chili.
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In Nomi's mind, "bang" is the top designation, so she's giving her marijuana-smoking pal the gold star in this competition.
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Kelly attended a 2011 breakfast for Gold Star families at the Obama White House some six months after his son died.
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" Clinton said that what she found "most troubling" were Trump's attacks on "women, Muslims, Americans with disabilities, a Gold Star family.
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Rubio called Trump's comments about a Gold Star family over the weekend "unfortunate" but has not rescinded his endorsement of Trump.
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Frederica Wilson feud over comments made to a Gold Star family, the president has nicknamed the Florida Democrat "Wacky Congresswoman Wilson."
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Update: Kelly and his wife attended a 2011 White House event for Gold Star families, and sat at Michelle Obama's table.
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Kelly signaled as much in January 2016 when he addressed Gold Star families' hopes for the future of US military engagements.
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There's Bella and Gigi, Kendall and Kylie, and Kyra and Evie – the redheaded sisters from South Wales with gold star quality.
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The first lady attended a Monday event at the White House with the President, honoring more than 40 Gold Star Families.
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We have never heard from Kelly like this, speaking as a Gold Star father while television networks take his remarks live.
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Tammy Duckworth of Illinois said she had "utter disgust" for the way Trump has politicized his interactions with Gold Star families.
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After Trump's comments about Khizr and Ghazala Khan, representatives from 23 Gold Star families wrote an open letter defending the Khans.
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" Seventeen Gold Star families made the connection directly Monday when they said that Trump's stance "is about a sense of decency.
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Following Trump's response, the Khans and other Gold Star families have received an outpouring of support from both Republicans and Democrats.
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Instead of respecting the Gold star parents, Trump's response to Khan's speech was to question why Khan's wife, Ghazala, was silent.
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All that to say, Costco's $60 Gold Star membership or $120 Executive membership may not be totally worth it for everyone.
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"You don't attack one Gold Star family, because if you do, you're attacking a lot of us," Meredith said in 2016.
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To more than a few members of the public, a black mark awarded by Congress might look like a gold star.
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Once eBay had their own system in place, they widened the verification umbrella to include their gold-star luxury-good sellers.
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"We see that they mourn Soleimani more than they mourn our Gold Star families," Collins told Lou Dobbs on Fox Business.
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If you get a gold star for reading a book, that's an extrinsic reward which is designed to encourage more reading.
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"Trump has assaulted numerous people at his rallies — a Gold Star family, a disabled reporter, various women, political rivals," Davis wrote.
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"In all, seven Gold Star families contacted by The Post said they have had phone conversations with Trump," the Post said.
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But whether or not this happens, what Trump said attacking and insulting a Gold Star mother and Gold Star father is one more example of why America should never allow his finger to be on the nuclear war button, and why voters should never allow a man with his temperament and vices to be commander in chief.
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Beneath the graphic, the newsletter specifically stated that she is expected to attend an event on Monday to honor Gold Star families.
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Beneath the graphic, the newsletter specifically stated that she was expected to attend an event on Monday to honor Gold Star families.
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And yet for Gold Star spouses now facing a tax hike they didn't expect, it's probably hard to think of anything else.
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In order to receive the full amount of both benefits, some Gold Star spouses allocate the Defense Department sum to their children.
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If you've noticed that I haven't mentioned Apple or Siri in all of this creepy surveillance business, you get a gold star.
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After a disastrous week defined by him feuding with Gold Star parents, there's real risk of a Trump death spiral kicking in.
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Gold Star Bar: Cheap beers, local art on the walls, a jukebox filled with punk and heavy metal, and a pool table.
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In the midst of the second presidential debate, the moderators resurrected Donald Trump's months-long feud with the Gold Star Khan family.
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The seemingly light-hearted comments come amid Trump's ongoing controversy with Gold Star families and new reports detailing his own draft deferments.
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In past years, Gold Star families who chose this option paid an average of 12% to 15% in taxes on that income.
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In 1928, 25 mothers who lost sons in World War I met in Washington to establish the American Gold Star Mothers organization.
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Only one day before his Purple Heart comments, he doubled-down on his attacks on Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan.
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The Texas Republican doesn't object to fixing the tax issue for Gold Star families -- the spouses and children of fallen service members.
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It was arrogance that allowed him to stupidly fire back at gold star parents who had attacked him at the Democratic convention.
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Presented without comment, the snapshots depict the trio seeming to be spreading holiday cheer, with a large gold star in the background.
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That poll was taken after Clinton's post-convention bounce and as Trump faced criticism over his comments about a Gold Star family.
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This contrasts with Trump, who never admits to a mistake even when he challenged the sincerity of a Gold Star Muslim mother.
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Engaging in petty recriminations with a Gold Star family is not only counterproductive, it is beneath the dignity of the American people.
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The last few days the news has been dominated by a controversy over Trump's call to Myeshia Johnson, a Gold Star widow.
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Trump attacked the Gold Star parents repeatedly over the course of the campaign despite insisting they did not seek out the confrontation.
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Remember that during the 2016 campaign, Mr. Sondland backed out of a fund-raiser after Mr. Trump attacked a Gold Star family.
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"The big one was this continued controversy with the Gold Star families," said Madonna, referring to families that lost members to war.
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Mitch McConnell, among others -- have made it clear that they have a big problem with Trump's comments about a Gold Star family.
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The issue affecting Gold Star families is one of several areas where there have been unintended consequences from the GOP tax law.
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He was tempted to bail when Trump had his abominable fight with the Khans, the gold-star family, after the Democratic primary.
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Kelly forget that it was Trump who callously attacked a Gold Star family — the Khans — during the summer political conventions of 2016?
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You don't disparage generals, gold star families, prisoners of war and other heroes who had the courage to fight for this country.
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This once proud man defended his boss, denouncing Representative Frederica Wilson as a publicity-seeking opportunist who crassly politicizes Gold Star families.
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It's as if the presidency were a gold star that her much-vaunted managerial competence and strategic smarts should have earned her.
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The team sent my newly minted Gold Star family pregame field passes and seats only a few rows behind the team's bench.
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Original pieces were marked with a gold star on their tags, which were stamped with Ms. Wexler's logo and tied with twine.
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Obama hosted Kelly at a breakfast for Gold Star families about six months after his son died, according to The Associated Press.
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I would never, ever use Gold Star families, military men and women or their families as any pawn in any political game.
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I would never, ever use Gold Star families, military men and women, or their families, as any pawn in any political game.
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The House's bill has stalled in the Senate for reasons unrelated to the issue involving the tax increase for Gold Star families.
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Donald Trump is a sexist and racist man who insults Gold Star parents, stokes fear of Muslims and sows hatred of Latinos.
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" But when the Post asked Jones-Johnson if the congresswoman's description of the call was accurate, the Gold-Star mother said "yes.
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He is also a Gold Star father, having lost his youngest son, Marine 1st Lt. Robert Kelly, in combat in Afghanistan in 2010.
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Consider the heavy jukebox of Gold Star Bar, or the dreamy goldfish pond of Happy Village, or the bluesy vibes of Rosa's Lounge.
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Joe Kelly, right, of the Boston Red Sox escorts a gold star family before a game against the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday.
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But like so many other scandals throughout Trump's campaign, Trump's attacks on the Gold Star family didn't seem to matter in the end.
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Costco also offers a Gold Star Executive Membership that costs $120 a year and offers a 2% cash-back reward up to $1803,000.
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As part of the program, more than 1,700 Gold Star children were taken to the popular Florida theme park on American Airlines flights.
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The verses at Gold Star, the bridge at Sunset Sound, the background music for the choruses at Western, and the vocals at Columbia.
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Humayun Khan's parents take the stage last week, I was happy to see that there was light being shed on Gold Star families.
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The back and forth between Trump and the grieving Gold Star family has continued into this week, leading many Republicans to rebuke Trump.
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Costco also offers a Gold Star Executive Membership that costs $120 a year and offers a 1.503 percent cashback reward up to $1,000.
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He has comforted a weeping boy, defended the Gold Star Khan family and praised New Mexico's Hispanic-American governor who backs immigration reform.
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Ms. Wales Bonner was awarded the gold-star prize by Léa Seydoux, the French film actress and a brand ambassador for Louis Vuitton.
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CNN's Chris Cillizza said the unseemly battle with a Gold Star widow was an example of Trump taking the lowest of low roads.
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There is the annual Gold Star Family tree, as well, decorated by families who have lost loved ones in service to the military.
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Trump's defense follows feuds with a Gold Star widow who recently lost her husband in an ambush in Niger as well as Sens.
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He tweeted that he "very much" regretted missing the Memorial Day festivities and expressed gratitude to American service members and Gold Star families.
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You probably won't get a gold-star badge, but you will get put in charge of important projects and even your fellow coworkers.
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One member with the highest tier of membership, Gold Star Executive, even got a tattoo of the Kirkland Signature brand on his arm.
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"In the military and veterans community, Gold Star families are sacred," said Paul Rieckhoff, the founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
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"They need to immediately rethink that and think about the impact that it's having on Gold Star children and their families," she said.
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Then he mocked Ghazala Khan, a Gold Star mother, for her silence while her husband spoke, suggesting she was not "allowed" to speak.
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During his 2016 campaign, for example, he was decried by people on both sides of the aisle for attacking a Gold Star family.
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It turns out Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan played it exactly right by hiding in a bunker while Trump insulted Gold Star families.
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Kelly made the division clear himself when, in taking questions, he insisted on calling on only reporters who knew Gold Star families themselves.
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It happens every single time a veteran or a widow or a Gold Star parent stands up to blood-and-soil nationalist kakistocracy.
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Todd Young (R-Indiana) -- Sandy Terwiske, a Gold Star mother whose son Alec was killed in Afghanistan in 2012 House of Representatives Rep.
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Feeling self-conscious about being a brass tack if you're dating a gold star, and hating yourself for even thinking in those terms.
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Doug Collins: Democrats are "in love with terrorists, we see that they mourn Soleimani more than they mourn our gold star families." pic.twitter.
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After achieving the perfect high-achiever résumé with Harvard and a Rhodes scholarship, Buttigieg may simply have longed for yet another gold star.
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And apart from his deficiencies as a candidate personally — his high disapproval ratings, his attacks on Gold Star parents and disabled people, etc.
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Trump's meeting with Gold Star families before his rally on Wednesday came as the Republican presidential nominee looks to push past the backlash he drew in recent days from veterans groups and prominent members of his own party after he criticized another Gold Star family, the parents of a Muslim US soldier slain in Iraq who criticized Trump at the Democratic convention.
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Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE (R-Ariz.) added his powerful and nationally respected voice to the chorus of condemnation that Trump is receiving from leading veterans groups, who are expressing outrage and indignation against the billionaire's insults of Khizr Khan, the fallen hero's Gold Star father, and Ghazala Khan, his Gold Star mother.
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It seemed the whole nation had banded together against his needless attacks on the Gold Star family of Iraqi war hero Captain Humayun Khan.
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Gold Star dad Khizr Khan's speech at the Democratic National Convention was one of the most powerful moments of the 2016 election so far.
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Trump defended his response by falsely claiming that former President Barack Obama had not personally reached out to Gold Star families to offer condolences.
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Soon after, other Gold Star families stepped forward to say that Trump either hadn't contacted them or went back on promises he'd previously made.
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John McCain to withdraw his support for Donald Trump because of his comments about the Gold Star parents whose son was killed in Iraq.
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"I just visited with some incredible folks ... Some really amazing Gold Star families," Trump said as he searched for the families in the crowd.
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Kelly and his wife were invited to a "Gold Star" breakfast in May 2011, and sat at then First Lady Michelle Obama's table. Gen.
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"It was true when we heard what he thought about minorities ... Muslims ... made fun of disabled persons or insulted gold star families," he said.
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"You can't have a guy who's insulted POWs and attacks a Gold Star mom and has called our troops and veterans weak," Obama said.
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Maybe that is happening as a result of Trump's feud with a pair of Gold Star parents, or maybe it'll happen in the future.
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With both Vietnam's gold star and Moscow's hammer and sickle in its logo, the Vietnam-Soviet Petroleum Joint Venture, "Vietsovpetro", was created in 1981.
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Sinise said in a post on Twitter that more than 1,000 Gold Star children are traveling with a parent to Disney through the program.
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The riff was playful, but a bit awkward considering the event was to honor Gold Star families, who have lost loved ones at war.
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Earlier this week, the first lady attended a Monday event at the White House with the President, honoring more than 40 Gold Star families.
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"I think at the end of the day, what we have to look at is the idea of politicizing Gold Star families," Manion said.
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A blue star represented each member, and if one of them was killed in the war, it would be replaced with a gold star.
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Would the words of a Muslim Gold Star father have any effect on an election that observers believed would be won handily by Clinton?
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You can send any response you want, or send pre-set messages like a gold star to let someone you respect their workout ethic.
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"Most people in this country, before this, did not know what a Gold Star family was, let alone what our sacrifice was," Meredith added.
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Gary Berry, a military veteran and Gold Star father whose son died while serving in the Army, used to love Mr. Trump's sparkling wines.
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"This has nothing to do with celebrity," Mr. Khan said, dressed in a black pinstriped suit and wearing a Gold Star family lapel pin.
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And then people who hadn't thought about Gold Star families in some time -- if ever -- all of a sudden become committed to their cause.
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The group of Gold Star families on Monday wrote a letter to the billionaire condemning his treatment of the family of U.S. Army Capt.
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His mother is a receptionist at the Veterans Memorial Home in Paramus, N.J., where veterans, their spouses and Gold Star parents receive health care.
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A Gold Star widow chose Veterans Day to reveal the gender of her baby, with a little help from her late husband's fellow servicemen.
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"There are programs for Gold Star children and for children of active-duty military, but not a lot for children of veterans," Longino said.
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Read more " _____ Jena Greene in The Smokeroom: "The fact that Trump is even attempting to call every new Gold Star family is itself honorable.
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According to White House visitor logs, Kelly attended a breakfast Obama hosted for Gold Star families in 2011 and sat at Michelle Obama's table.
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President Woodrow Wilson had suggested to mothers whose sons or daughters died overseas that they should display a service flag with a gold star.
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The Nation's Gold Star families deserved a stand-alone vote and representatives from both sides of the aisle have agreed now is the time.
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Trump lit the spark on the dispute on Monday when he claimed, incorrectly, that President Obama had not made calls to Gold Star families.
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And Pence has stood by Trump throughout the ensuing controversies — Trump's fights with a Gold Star family and the 1997 Miss Universe among them.
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Khan, the gold star family whose son died in the line of duty, and Donald insulted and attacked them for weeks over their religion.
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President Trump pledged to Gold Star families on Monday to "never forget our heroes," saluting those who made the ultimate sacrifice on this Memorial Day.
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"Am I not allowed to respond?" he asked after being criticized for feuding with a Gold Star family that denounced his proposed ban on Muslims.
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Based on your list of gold-star moments, choose three biggest talents you bring to the table in terms of creating value for the company.
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She is there honoring gold star families and people are pedaling conspiracy theories that frankly don&apost shouldn&apost be dignified on the major platforms.
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Rather than simply backing off and joining Americans in honoring Gold Star mothers and fathers, Trump repeated and doubled down on his insults of them.
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Since then, Trump has stirred controversy with remarks about Gold Star families and his ongoing criticism of football players who kneel during the national anthem.
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As more Gold Star families line up to accuse Trump of ignoring them, he is not currently winning any prizes for sensitivity to military sacrifice.
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He has endured a lot flagrant moments: lewd comments on "Access Hollywood", criticism of Gold Star parents, ridicule of a prisoner of war in Sen.
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Respect for women, the sanctity of life, service to one's country, honoring the sacrifice of a Gold Star family above petty political concerns–all gone.
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Our Social Security contributions provide some measure of economic security to millions of families that have lost loved ones, including the nation's Gold Star families.
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The president believes that no one has given more for our country's security, for our country's safety, for our country's freedom than Gold Star families.
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The cost of Costco membershipCostco offers three different membership options:Gold Star Membership: The Gold Star is $60 per year and comes with two membership cards.
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Criticizing Gold Star parents, calling women bimbos, and mocking the appearance of opponents only alienates the same open-minded generation that he needs to entice.
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He has kindled animosity against entire segments of the American populace from women to Hispanics to Muslims (including a Gold Star Family) to African Americans.
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"I just believe that we, the Cole survivors, and the Gold Star family members have just been a pawn in this whole process," he said.
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John McCain in their upcoming primary battles on Tuesday, responding to criticism from both of his attacks on Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan.
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His casual cruelty to a Gold Star family, his casual suggestion that more countries should have nuclear weapons, and now his casual inciting of violence.
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John McCain, his spat with the Gold Star Khan family, his attacks on San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz in the wake of natural disasters.
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For all the corporation does that could be criticized, they earn a gold star for standing up to Trump and, quite literally, walking the walk.
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He fought publicly with a Gold Star family who had lost their son in Iraq and a former Miss Universe whom he once called fat.
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Several mentioned baking the morning staple, and one gold-star person actually sent me one of our own recipes: Ellie Krieger's Morning Glory Baked Oatmeal.
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They could not capture his essence more if they were spoken by a spray-tanned Furby eating KFC and screaming at a Gold Star family.
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Gold Star parent Khizr Khan said Thursday that White House chief of staff John KellyJohn Francis KellyMORE needs to stop "mopping up" after President Trump.
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Straight in front of me sat an elaborate staircase lined with a leopard-print carpet, and there were huge gold star sculptures on either side.
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He said he "always wanted" a Purple Heart, but never served in the military; demeaned prisoners of war; and even bashed a Gold Star family.
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The Gold Star parents asked then-Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, if he had ever read the Constitution and offered to lend him their copy.
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I went to Berkeley when it didn't work out, and my Gold Star parents bought my no-account ass a bus ticket back to Arkansas.
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On Monday, it was announced that the first lady, 48, is expected to attend a reception for Gold Star Families Monday evening at the White House.
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From his service, he went on to win awards such as the Legion of Merit with Gold Star and the Bronze Star with Combat Distinguishing Device.
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Of course, the video isn't totally serious: it's clearly pointing a finger at white male feminists who want a gold star for being decent human beings.
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The new bill, titled the Gold Star Family Tax Relief Act, would clarify how income from the Department of Defense's Survivor Benefits Plan should be taxed.
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Put all of those things together, add a healthy dose of classic dive bar squalor, and you've got the Gold Star Bar (plus there's free popcorn).
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He is also a Gold Star husband; his wife Senior Chief Petty Officer Shannon Kent was killed in 2019 conducting Special Operations against ISIS in Syria.
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Now 46, the retired naval officer takes his Yamaha motorcycle and rides it across America, where the sons and daughters of Gold Star families once roamed.
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In December, The White House hosted a special screening of The Force Awakens for Gold Star families – those who lost loved ones in the Iraq War.
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The Gold Star fix would prevent children and spouses of fallen service members from getting hit with unexpectedly high tax bills following recent tax reform changes.
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But on Wednesday at a CNN presidential town hall, he was asked to defend why he refuses to say "Islamic" terrorism to a Gold Star mother.
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"This force cannot carry out that foreign policy," concludes Andrew Bacevich, a historian and former army officer, who happens also to be a Gold Star father.
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Rick Perry said Tuesday that the Gold Star father involved in a war of words with Donald Trump shouldn't get a "free ride" from public criticism.
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In a speech that followed, the president gave special thanks to Gold Star families, including DHS Secretary John Kelly's son Robert, who was killed in Afghanistan.
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The same goes for an extremely well-crafted relationship that blossomed this season out of mutual attraction and consent (we gave 'em that gold star anyway).
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From the black parent of a college basketball player to a grieving Gold Star family, Trump's critics of color have been painted as un-American instigators.
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Other leading Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, liberal mega-donor Tom Steyer, Gold Star father Khizr Khan and influential activists are slated to appear.
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On Trump's calls to gold star families: The president has made contact with all individuals presented to him by the White House Military Office, Sanders said.
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After all, when Twitter decided to change the gold star icon that used to represent the "favorite" action into a more Facebook-like red heart, i.e.
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Separately, however, the death of a soldier in Niger — and Trump's response — also stoked days of controversy and debate about his treatment of gold-star families.
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HAPPENING LATER Back in the public eye First lady Melania Trump is expected to attend an event at the White House today honoring Gold Star families.
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" Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father who heavily criticized Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, also criticized Kelly during a Sunday interview on "Face the Nation.
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The Khans are what is known in the United States as a "Gold Star Family," meaning they have lost an immediate relative in a military action.
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"The President is the one who politicized a Gold Star family, and he continues a trend that began from even before he was elected," she said.
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And yet, almost a week after his fiery speech at the Democratic National Convention, we are still talking about Muslim-American Gold Star father Khizr Khan.
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The term "Gold Star" refers to any family who has lost an immediate member who was serving in the military while in a time of conflict.
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To read more from the Associated Press about previous presidents records of contacting so-called Gold Star families and Trump's own record on this, click here.
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A Gold Star Executive member of the warehouse store, Max Ellinger is a Costco loyalist through and through, visiting the store nearly three times a week.
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In 2004, like thousands of other Gold Star families in the Iraq War, Khizr and Ghazala Khan, Muslim-Americans, were notified that their son, Army Capt.
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He frequently attacked McCain, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, and during the 2016 campaign, attacked a Gold Star family who had denounced him.
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He has criticized the mogul for attacking a Gold Star family and a federal judge of Mexican heritage, but until Saturday had stood by his endorsement.
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RELATED: Trump offers Flynn job of national security adviser Trump repeatedly criticized a Gold Star family whose son died in the line of duty in Iraq.
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The official said that amid backlash, the Trump team set up a meeting with Gold Star Mothers of Florida and ensured conservative outlets covered the story.
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The State Capitol features a gold star on its steps marking where Jefferson Davis took his oath of office and a tall column celebrating Confederate soldiers.
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It happens that Casey is both a former farm girl, of the authentic kind—she grew up in Flandreau, South Dakota—and a gold-star lesbian.
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CNN reported last month that Cordova had previously shared stories on his social media accounts that included false claims about Gold Star father Khizr Khan, Sen.
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Watching President Donald Trump's Twitter feuds with everyone from North Korea to Gold Star families is an embarrassing (and sometimes terrifying) sideshow for the entire country.
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MORE for getting captured in Vietnam; they saw him belittle a Gold Star family; and they saw the tape in which Trump boasted about sexual assault.
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Last year, Khan said that fellow Gold Star parent and White House chief of staff John KellyJohn Francis KellyMORE needed to stop "mopping up" after Trump.
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"Your lack of care and racism is very annoying and disgraceful and for this we would like to award you a gold star," the note said.
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USE APPS AND INSTAGRAM Apps make the hunt for good beer significantly easier, said Josh Van Horn, an owner of Gold Star Beer Counter in Brooklyn.
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Trump's relations with Gold Star families have not always been smooth, dating from his belittlement of the parents of slain U.S. soldier Humayun Khan, who was Muslim.
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In fact, the custom is long-established and many past presidents have reached out to Gold Star families to offer condolences through letters, private meetings and invitations.
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Since 2002, the foundation has raised more than $21 million in total assistance, including college scholarships, grants and educational counseling for more than 1,000 Gold Star kids.
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He has repeatedly threatened to imprison Clinton if he wins the presidency; he insulted a Gold Star family and shamed a human being for having a disability.
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After 24 days without being seen in public, first lady Melania Trump will be attending a White House event honoring Gold Star families on on Monday night.
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Trump and first lady Melania Trump honored the families of fallen troops at the White House a few weeks later on Gold Star Mother's and Family's Day.
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"No one has given more for our freedom and our security than our Gold Star families," Obama said at the Disabled American Veterans national convention in Atlanta.
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Theresa May is an archetypical grammar-school girl who thinks that she'll get a gold star if she keeps re-writing the same essay in neater handwriting.
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He surprised Stephanie Manis, a Gold Star mom and her two children, George (Gino) and Kayden, with her husband's name proudly inscribed on the driver's side door.
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Among other things, Pierson claimed that President Obama's policies "probably" killed Gold Star parent Khizr Khan's son, who died in Iraq four years before Obama took office.
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The White House also weighed in with an implicit rebuke of Trump, saying that Gold Star families deserve only "honor and gratitude" for their loved ones' service.
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" She added: "His casual cruelty to a gold star family, his casual suggestion that more countries should have nuclear weapons and now his casual inciting of violence.
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She believes Trump's recent days-long feud with the Gold Star Khan family, and his belittling last summer of former prisoner-of-war McCain, have provided openings.
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Kelly says he advised Trump on the calls to Gold Star families, and shared what he was told when he got the news of his son's death.
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" Asked if Donald Trump would apologize to Gold Star family members and move on, Eric Trump responded, "I think he has [apologized] by calling him a hero.
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You're in a very interesting spot with the Squad and with gold star families where all of that attention has been fixed on you at some point.
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You see, the base of the frisbee is red with a gold star, a pattern that matches the red jumpsuits and gold shears that the Tethers hold.
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"I am relieved that this sailor's family will not be joining the ranks of Gold Star Families that have sacrificed so much for our country," he said.
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" Amid the scrutiny, and ahead of the Gold Star reception, Grisham told CNN there was nothing to the rumors, blaming the media for piquing public interest. "Mrs.
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The first lady tweeted support of Gold Star families following the reception, and included three images from the occasion, two with her seated in the front row.
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The first lady tweeted support of Gold Star Families following the reception, and included three images from the occasion, two with her seated in the front row.
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Cordova, who worked for Trump's campaign in California, reportedly peddled conspiracy theories, including the false claim that Gold Star father Khizr Khan worked for the Muslim Brotherhood.
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During the 2016 presidential election, Trump made headlines for repeatedly insulting two Gold Star parents, Khizr and Ghazala Khan, who publicly supported his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
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The Associated Press said Thursday that, of the Gold Star families it has been able to contact, Trump has only personally reached out to half of them.
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In a speech at the Democratic National Convention, the Gold Star father, Khizr Khan, told the story of his son, who died protecting his men in Iraq.
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No Gold Star family feels braced for the enormity of the suffering that comes with a child, a parent, a husband, a wife who doesn't come home.
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Trump did a lot of things that got particularly awful press, even for him, including insulting a Gold Star family and feuding publicly with prominent Republican officials.
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"If you're a gold star mom, the idea of kneeling through the national anthem is beyond disgraceful and is a cause of emotional harm," Mr. Peduto said.
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I am appalled that Donald Trump would disparage them and that he had the gall to compare his own sacrifices to those of a Gold Star family.
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" Trump also thanked Gold Star families, who were in attendance at the race, "whose loved ones made the supreme sacrifice to honor our freedom and our flag.
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In October, Khan said that fellow Gold Star parent and White House chief of staff John KellyJohn Francis KellyMORE needed to stop "mopping up" after the president.
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While Obama did not make a call to Kelly at the time, he did invite Kelly and his wife to a breakfast with other Gold Star families.
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Now, in 2019, this tax provision aimed at catching trust-fund babies, not unintentionally taking money from Gold Star families, has thrust this penalty into the public eye.
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Firebirds Wood Fired Grill: With a military ID or a Gold Star Lapel Badge, you can get a free second entrée for lunch and dinner on Memorial Day.
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Perhaps the only real simmering rivalry in Cincinnati chili is between its two largest purveyors, Gold Star and Skyline, which operate around 100 locations each across four states.
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It would extend funding for the Department of Defense likely into tax filing season, forcing Gold Star families to prepare for a second year of sky-high taxes.
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The end result is a lighter tax load on children of Gold Star families who are receiving military survivor's benefits, as well as college students with taxable scholarships.
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But many of the everyday activities of the Defense Department — from death gratuity payments to Gold Star families to basic maintenance work to reserve training — would be halted.
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" A letter signed by the Gold Star families — the term for those who have lost loved ones during military service — also called Trump's comments "repugnant, and personally offensive.
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Trump's slide in the polls comes after the repeated attacks on Khizr and Ghazala Khan, a Gold Star family who lost their son, an Army captain in Iraq.
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It is not known precisely how many Gold Star families there are, but over 6,000 US service members have died in the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Including his mocking of a reporter's physical disability, his public feud with a Gold Star family, and his proposal to ban Muslim immigrants from entering the United States.
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He has dabbled in racially charged proposals like his Muslim ban, and engaged in a never-ending series of personal attacks, most recently with a Gold Star family.
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Asked about what his efforts meant for delaying tax fixes for Gold Star families, Cruz noted he was a cosponsor of the Senate bill to address the problem.
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The actress also shared photos of their tree complete with colored lights, a gold star and symbolic ornaments such as a gingerbread man, a dove, and candy canes.
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The British-built PLA headquarters, topped by a large neon red and gold star, flanks key government offices and the city's legislature – a key target of recent protests.
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Kelly, a Gold Star father, delivered an emotional defense of the president, who was criticized on Wednesday for his comments on a call with the widow of Sgt.
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During the 2016 campaign, Trump exchanged barbs with Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father of a slain soldier, over his criticism of Trump at the Democratic National Convention.
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Republicans have said that they had initially sought to simplify the kiddie tax, and that the increase for Gold Star families had been an unintended consequence of that.
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Much has been written about Donald Trump's campaign against a grieving black Gold Star family and the ways in which it shows the administration's disdain for black women.
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Later, he chastised Mr. Trump for cozying up to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and for besmirching the Gold Star family of an Army captain, Humayun Khan.
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"Democrats and Republicans agree — we must fix a broken system and ensure Gold Star families are not victims of a tax hike," Ms. Luria said in a statement.
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Trump attended the event with Gold Star families, a contingent of observers on Twitter wondered whether the sparse footage captured of the event was indeed from that day.
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The Caucus took a similar approach in efforts to correct a provision that levied a double tax on the benefits received by victimized Gold Star widows and survivors.
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She was one of a handful of GOP lawmakers who declined to support Trump in 2016, citing his divisive rhetoric toward Mexicans and a Muslim Gold Star family.
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Cenedella ends with this piece of advice: "Just remember that when you're working for a boss, your job is to get your boss a gold star," he says.
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In an interview with Newsweek, Khan said that he is disappointed with Kelly for cleaning up after the controversy that Trump has ignited with several Gold Star families.
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An ironic request from a man who supports a president who has mocked a reporter's physical disability, insulted a Gold Star family, and disparaged John McCain's military service.
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And you want to know why she doesn't kiss you on the forehead and give you a gold star on your homework at the end of the day.
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The Gold Star widow at the center of a national controversy over how President Trump handled his condolence call to her spoke publicly for the first time Monday. Stg.
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Support, she says, is crucial to making it through the grief, which is why she wanted to speak out and stand with fellow Gold Star relatives like Myeshia Johnson.
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The Gold star sat down with BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show to talk about his new film, but the conversation quickly turned to the new commander in chief.
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We are appealing that decision before the Second Circuit, and numerous other cases involving hundreds of other Gold Star families will be affected by the outcome of that appeal.
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Trump's military service – or lack thereof – has come under scrutiny amid his ongoing feud with the Muslim-American, Gold Star parents whose son was killed in Iraq in 2004.
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"I requested that Sharon introduce me because I understood that our Gold Star families have made a sacrifice that most of us cannot even begin to imagine," Obama said.
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He said she has high blood pressure and didn't want to speak for fear she wouldn't be able to hold herself together discussing her Gold Star son on stage.
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"Donald Trump and I believe that Captain Humayun Khan is an American hero and his family, like all Gold Star families, should be cherished by every American," Pence said.
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He doesn't have the discipline to resist being baited by his political opponents, as when Gold Star parents Ghazala and Khizr Khan criticized him at the Democratic National Convention.
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There's even lesbian fan fiction about scissoring (I suggest this NSFW Harry Potter version), according to Heather*, a "gold star" lesbian (which means she's never slept with a man).
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Any chance the episode had of painting a nuanced, empathetic portrait of "gold star pedophiles" — people with pedophilic urges who do not act upon them — went out the window.
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As a matter of fact, regardless of what he said, he should still apologize to the members of the Johnson family, who are now, sadly, a Gold Star family.
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The conversation changed Wednesday when Trump staunchly denied Wilson's claims even though the account was backed up by the very Gold Star family his call was meant to comfort.
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Epilogue On April 25, Khan donned a navy blue suit, pinned his Gold Star on the lapel and made his way to the Supreme Court for the 10 a.m.
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Because we have a man running for president of the United States who made a gold star mother have to go on TV and cry in front of America.
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Mr. Pence's ability to navigate a racially charged argument between Mr. Trump and a Gold Star family is emerging as his first difficult test as Mr. Trump's running mate.
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"There's only one way to talk about Gold Star parents: with honor and respect," he wrote, using the term for surviving family members of those who died in war.
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And in the years reporting my book "Ashley's War," I had the privilege of spending time with a Gold Star family as it learned to live alongside its loss.
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The big question here is she&aposs supposed to have an event today, I think it&aposs for gold star families, and they&aposve closed it to the press.
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Artist Andy Leek never got a gold star in school, so in adulthood, he's made it a personal mission to share his lost approval with the works of others.
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A Gold Star widow speaks out about Trump's infamous phone call; Japan's Shinzo Abe is reelected to another term; China is getting serious about cracking down on air pollution.
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The trees include A Gold Star Family Tree to honor those who lost their lives serving in the military ... and the official 18-foot-tall White House Christmas tree.
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Doug Collins, who baselessly said that Democrats are "in love with terrorists" and "mourn Soleimani more than they mourn our Gold Star families," the families of slain American soldiers.
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"Although Isabela Moner was my given name, Isabela Merced tells my story and my future," Dora and the Lost City of Gold star Isabela Moner tells Refinery29 over email.
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They include numerous pics relating to the theme, "The Spirit of America" a "tribute to the traditions, customs, and history that make our Nation great," according to the announcement: close-ups of the "Gold Star Family tree" (decorated by Gold Star families), the stars and stripes ribbons and ornaments trimming the fireplace of the East Room, and the mini-White House Advent calendar in a window of the Green Room (among other sparkly additions).
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That was quickly followed by his lengthy battle with Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan, which had some Republicans digging through the party's rules and state laws for options.
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Remember when Trump asserted that because Ghazala Khan, the gold-star mother of a slain American-Muslim soldier, wore a headscarf, it meant she didn't have the right to speak?
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Not enough people know what a Gold Star parent is, says Charles Strange; but as one of them, he is dedicated to helping other family members of fallen service members.
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Whatever draft-dodging Trump might have been a part of, it hasn't kept him from taking pot shots at a Gold Star family that was critical of him; nicknaming Sen.
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This week, we tackle Trump's non-existent policy ideas to end the opioid epidemic, his never-ending attacks on a Gold Star widow who spoke out against him, and more.
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O. K.: Next of Kin is a quiet and introspective collection of pictures that approaches how the US's Gold Star families grieve after the loss of a military service member.
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He has been sucked into a row with a Muslim Gold Star family, the Khans; criticized strongly by John McCain; and branded "unfit" for high office by President Barack Obama.
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This week, we tackle the Gold Star family controversy, Trump's ongoing temper tantrum about Puerto Rico, and his fictional bromance with Mitch McConnell that isn't fooling anyone for a second.
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My screening of Thank You for Your Service was on Monday, October 23, the same day that President Donald Trump used Twitter to call a Gold Star widow a liar.
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In this case, the bureaucracy had to move quickly to contact gold-star families while the White House chief of staff had to aggressively go after a member of Congress.
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Oil industry titan ExxonMobil has had a gold star from Wall Street bankers for decades, through the Great Depression, a world war, and a string of industry booms and busts.
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The family jetted off to Italy for a summer vacation last month that saw the Fool's Gold star snuggling up with her baby girl aboard a boat in one outing.
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Kelly has received much media attention for his role in the United States Southern Command, as well as his personal story as a Gold Star father, and for good reason.
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At the end of July 2016 --- just days before the August 8 text exchange -- Trump shot back at Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son US Army Capt.
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All Americans have a sacred duty to not only spotlight the sacrifices of fallen heroes, Gold Star families, and veterans, but also to thank the next Greatest Generation of vets.
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Business Membership: There's also a Business option that offers the same benefits as the Gold Star and Gold Executive memberships, but allows members to add additional people for $23 each.
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At the Democratic National Convention, the Khans, a gold star family whose son was killed in service to our nation in Iraq, spoke before the oldest political party on earth.
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Being challenged also instills the need for hard work and sustained efforts, and also demonstrates that these traits are valuable even without the blue ribbon, gold star, or top score.
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Later, Kelly appeared to take a swipe at Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the Gold Star parents who memorably spoke at the Democratic National Convention last summer and drew Trump's fury.
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Some figures include the "Dreamy Star Kitten," a cat's head with closed eyes and a gold star on its forehead, and a bright orange figurine called "Kitsune," Japanese for 'fox.
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To the Editor: President Trump's continued assaults on Senator John McCain seven months after his death aptly remind The Times of his attacks on a Gold Star father, Khizr Khan.
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I understand some people are blinded by Kelly's status as a former general and Gold Star family member, the latter of which I know he would not care to be.
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Mr. Obama invited Mr. Kelly and his wife, Karen, to a breakfast for Gold Star families — those who have lost children in combat — at the White House in May 2011.
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Lucy explained that she was a gold-star lesbian, which meant one who'd never had sex with a guy; in fact, Lucy added proudly, she'd never even kissed a guy.
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Jon Cordova, the principal deputy assistant secretary for administration at HHS, previously shared stories on his social media accounts that included false claims about Gold Star father Khizr Khan, Sen.
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The plaintiffs, who are 385 Americans, including dozens of veterans and members of Gold Star families, are accusing the companies of violating the Anti-Terrorism Act and are seeking damages.
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In one case, he told a Gold Star father that he'd be making a $25,000 donation to the family before going radio silent — that is, until the story made national headlines.
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The annual fee is $60 for "gold star" or business memberships and $120 for each of the two executive plans, which include extra savings and benefits like 2% back on purchases.
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Inspired by the outpouring of support for his work, he created "The Good Cemeterian Historial Preservation Project," a non-profit raising money for gold star families and veterans suffering from PTSD.
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Starting with his gratuitous and disturbing slap at Ghazala Khan, the Gold Star mother who appeared at the Democratic National Convention, Trump has been careening from one unsettling comment to another.
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A basic "Gold Star" membership costs $55 annually, while $110 will get you an executive membership with 2003% rewards on everything you spend, plus special add-ons for certain travel products.
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I would never — I don't care what they say, you'll never hear me question anything about a Gold Star family," he said, adding that his defense of the Khans was "personal.
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The problem for Trump is there's only a limited number of them that he can win over merely by looking "more presidential" and not picking offensive fights with Gold Star families.
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Trump's shows of relative restraint on the campaign trail were always temporary, and generally served as memory holes for offenses against Gold Star parents, beauty show contestants, and sexual assault victims.
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The Muslim Gold Star father's fame grew overnight after a fiery speech that turned him into a protector of freedom and a critical force against the President of the United States.
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You might recall him feuding with a Gold Star family, or mocking Senator John McCain of Arizona for being captured in Vietnam, or likening his prep-school attendance to military experience.
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" Without naming Mr. Trump, Mr. Obama made his message clear when he said that "no one — no one — has given more for our freedom and security than our Gold Star families.
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The week ahead: — Saturday, October 28 — Kamala Harris keynotes a Human Rights Campaign dinner in Washington that will also feature Hillary Clinton, Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Gold Star father Khizr Khan.
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The latest example of Trump's disastrous ignorance and ideas about national security is his insulting treatment of the Gold Star mom and dad of the intensely patriotic and heroic Army Capt.
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Trump Jr. was asked a series of tough questions about his decision to spread the alleged name of the Ukraine whistleblower and about his father's attacks on a Gold Star family.
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You probably remember Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father who spoke so eloquently at the Democratic Convention about his son, Humayun, an Army captain, who heroically gave his life in Iraq.
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During the election and even his presidency, Trump has had several high-profile disputes with Gold Star families, which escalated into major issues before being swept away by the news cycle.
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The first Mr. McCain was the one the public saw a lot on television: irreverent, cheerful, reverential — of veterans, senior voters, Gold Star mothers, small-business owners — and thoughtful about policy.
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Trump, the self-proclaimed "counterpuncher," discovered that fighting a deadly virus isn't the same as attacking Gold Star mothers, former prisoners of war and just about any American who criticizes him.
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Regardless of where they fall on the gold star chart of realness, these attempts seem to be an inevitable response to widespread cultural hunger for access to other people's interior lives.
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But Mr. McCain did so not after Mr. Trump insulted him personally or after Mr. Trump offended a Gold Star family, but only when Mr. McCain had obtained a comfortable lead.
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A Gold Star family in North Carolina received a $2628,28503 check from President Trump dated the same day The Washington Post published a report that they were still waiting for it.
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The poll also picked up the reaction of voters to the debate over the weekend that focused on Trump's comments about the Kahn family and the response by Gold Star families.
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The rest of the journalists, and by extension the rest of the American public who don't know any Gold Star families, were effectively told they had no place in the debate.
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Andrew Bacevich, a Gold Star father and military veteran who is also a respected commentator, blamed President Trump's inability to use the English language for the president's most recent military scandal.
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Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE (R-Ariz.) said Monday that Trump's views don't reflect the Republican Party's attitude toward Gold Star parents.
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That isn't always the case; a gold star for reading might get a child to start reading, and that child may find they enjoy reading and want to keep doing it.
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David Petraeus said on Sunday that Americans need to unite behind Gold Star families, following the controversy over President Trump's phone call to the widow of a soldier killed in Niger.
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We need to unite behind our Gold Star families to embrace them with compassion and support, not to drag them into partisan politics," Petraeus told ABC's Martha Raddatz on "This Week.
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But Trump seems to lack any self-restraint whatsoever, and repeatedly flies off the handle, viciously attacking anyone who defies him, whether they're a news anchor or a Gold Star mother.
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Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father who has repeatedly criticized President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, appeared in a Monday fundraising email for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) amid the recent controversy over Trump's conversation with a Gold Star widow.
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" To Gold Star mother Christina Ayube, who lost her son seven years ago, that behavior was a slap in the face to the families of fallen soldiers everywhere and "a complete embarrassment.
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He did it for self-healing, to visit fellow Marines and Gold Star families of the fallen -- and to spread awareness about what it's like for a war fighter to come home.
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The leaked 2005 conversation between Donald Trump and former Access Hollywood co-host Billy Bush caused the biggest upset since his criticism of a Gold Star family during the Democratic National Convention.
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The night kicked off with musical performances by Dana Williams and Gold Star Music and a dance choreographed by King for Haley Messick, Emma York and Brooklin Cooley, three young dance prodigies.
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But the one group of people most likely to experience personal shock from anthem protests is Gold Star parents – mothers and fathers of children who died in military service to our country.
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Invoking the Benghazi attack could backfire on Trump, however, as Clinton has typically responded with the compassion and restraint Trump seemed unable to give to critics like the Gold Star Khan family.
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"No one, no one has given more for our freedom and our security than our Gold Star families," Obama said during a speech to the Disabled American Veterans' annual convention in Atlanta.
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In addition to being employee of the month four times last year, I also received the Accounting America Group's gold star of excellence, which is awarded to only five accountants a year.
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Whether it's an attack on a Gold Star family, an entire religion or a private citizen like the former Miss Universe he called "Miss Piggy," Trump's not exactly a stranger to insults.
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Still, he has denounced or distanced himself from some Trump statements, such as his attack on the judge's heritage in June and his attack on a Gold Star family earlier this month.
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Mr. Moman toured with Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps and, after teaming with the rockabilly artists Johnny and Dorsey Burnette, went to Los Angeles and found a niche at Gold Star.
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The event, a private East Room reception for more than 40 Gold Star military families, was not in and of itself an unusual activity for the first lady of the United States.
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That some Gold Star families had seen taxes rise on their earned benefits under the 85033 law was first reported last month by Task & Purpose, a website that focuses on military news.
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Random House recently acquired a memoir by Khizr Khan, the Pakistani-American Gold Star father who became a prominent surrogate for Hillary Clinton after his stirring speech at the Democratic National Convention.
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The one gold star Hillary Clinton deserves this week is for not claiming that her near-faint at the 9/11 ceremony was the result of thinking about our armed forces overseas.
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This entire new storyline -- that the calling of Gold Star families by the commander in chief has somehow devolved into some sort of competition between presidents -- is distasteful, to say the least.
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Trump's top allies — Ben Carson, Newt Gingrich and Chris Christie, among them — have admonished Trump for criticizing the Gold Star family or have been critical of him for being too easily distracted.
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"Tonight the President is going to pay personal tribute to Gold Star families who have lost a son, daughter, parent, sibling or spouse in the service of our country," the official said.
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Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father who ripped Trump at the DNC, sending the Republican nominee into a damaging tailspin, unleashed the campaign-altering power of the pocket Constitution to historic effect.
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Kelly, who is also a Gold Star father, appeared in the White House briefing room on Thursday in the midst of a controversy over Trump's conversation with the widow of Army Sgt.
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If you're planning to keep your Facebook account, go to this page for "Friend Lists" and click on the one called "Close Friends," denoted by a gold star in a white box.
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As Vox's Matt Yglesias explains, Trump then lied about former President Obama's record of calling grieving soldiers and made a promise of $25,000 to a Gold Star father that was never delivered.
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"It certainly feels like now he's gonna be out there wearing this gold star like he's doing this great, hard-hitting thing, and suddenly all this other stuff is just forgotten," she said.
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But Gold Star families have since lashed out at Trump over his false claims about past presidents, recalling how they were comforted by Obama and former President George W. Bush as they grieved.
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It didn't help matters for POTUS that other Gold Star families spoke up about how Trump either hadn't called, hadn't been particularly supportive on the call, or had made promises he didn't keep.
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She quickly earned a name for herself as a skilled competitor who could outperform professionals like Noel Pope, and was awarded the Brooklands Gold Star for being the fastest woman on the track.
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I voted against Donald Trump for all the Gold Star families who have endured the unbearable and incurable pain of losing a child, a spouse, a parent, a sibling fighting for our country.
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Find a Gold Star mother or father and you will find someone who sees in every performance of the national anthem a reminder of their son or daughter's funeral – the overlap is universal.
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"We feel we must speak out and demand you apologize to the Khans, to all Gold Star families, and to all Americans for your offensive and frankly anti-American comments," the letter said.
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But he so often misuses the same fiery spirit wasting his time defending his insults for the former Miss Universe or the Muslim, Gold Star father who spoke at the Democratic National Convention.
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"We love our veterans, we love our Gold Star families, but the fact of the matter is Mr. Khan politically used his time on that stage to go after Donald Trump," Perry said.
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That's what happened this week when Congress tried to resolve a wrinkle in the Republican tax law that resulted in thousands of Gold Star families getting hit with unexpected tax bills this year.
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Including the tax relief provision for Gold Star families helped smooth the retirement bill's path to passage in the House -- but it provoked Cruz into halting it over the college savings plan dispute.
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Has no "empathy" as Khizr Kahn — the Gold Star dad who condemned Trump's bigotry and ignorance in his proposal to ban all Muslims, at least temporarily, from coming to the United States — said?
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He must recognize that the Democrats are capitalizing on Khan's speech and the American voter has to understand that both sides are shamelessly exploiting a Gold Star family for their own political purposes.
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"Your recent comments regarding the Khan family were repugnant and personally offensive to us," wrote the group of 11 "Gold Star" families, who are those who have lost a family member in war.
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As we saw in his battles with the Gold Star Khan family and Judge Gonzalo Curiel, Trump seems hellbent on waging a fight with a private citizen, which is rarely a winning proposition.
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"He never apologizes or says he's sorry for anything," she said, noting his insults of a Gold Star family, a reporter with a physical disability and a judge with Mexican heritage, among others.
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"The nation recognizes the sacrifice that all Gold Star Family members make when a father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter or other loved one dies in service to the nation," the site states.
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There is a type of documentary — one of the most prevalent varieties these days — that earnestly acquaints its audience with a terrible problem and rewards our attention with a gold star of virtue.
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But at Thursday's press conference, Kelly simply waved away that whole phase of the controversy: Presidents often don't call Gold Star families, he said, and he'd actually advised Trump not to do so.
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Alexander Vindman, a Purple Heart recipient, looking the other way after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of the Saudi government, attacking a Gold Star family during the 2016 campaign.
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Photos released today show the festive holiday decorations at the White House: glittering greenery, the Gold Star Family tree, stars and stripes ribbons and ornaments — and the first lady hovering on the periphery.
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Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father who gave an impassioned speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, is throwing his support behind Democratic candidate Gina Ortiz Jones in the primary to challenge Rep.
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For reigning world champions Invictus Gaming, the team's white jerseys feature a chevron designed to look like angel wings, along with a single gold star above their team logo, indicating the Worlds win.
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I joined Cindy Sheehan — a Gold Star mother whose son was killed in Iraq — and thousands of others in camping out at Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch to demand an end to the war.
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I'll take you back to the beginning of our third episode in which a Gold Star mother is talking about her son and the books that he loved more than the other siblings.
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President Trump's handling of one of the most difficult aspects of the job — calling the kin of service members killed in the line of duty — has struck a nerve with some Gold Star families.
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Among other rituals honoring military families, the Obamas had a "Gold Star" Christmas tree in the White House decorated with hundreds of photos and notes from people who had lost loved ones in war.
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Federica Wilson (D-FL) for confirming that he made a Gold Star widow cry, and called for Jemele Hill to be fired from her anchor spot on ESPN for supporting the #TakeAKnee NFL protests.
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A Gold Star mom who lost her son in an IED attack in Afghanistan told CNN that her heart stopped and she lost her breath when Kaepernick said he couldn't stand for the flag.
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" Clinton hit Trump on Thursday as "someone who has insulted Muslims, insulted a gold star family ... someone who has said he doesn't want to let Muslims from around the world come to our country.
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" Obama also criticized Trump's treatment of the Gold Star family, adding that his "basic knowledge of critical issues in Europe, the Middle East, in Asia, means that he's woefully unprepared to do this job.
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Trump, 48, first reemerged Monday evening at a White House ceremony to honor Gold Star families, but the reception was "closed press," meaning reporters were not allowed to attend or cover the event. Mrs.
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Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE, a war hero, and his smear attacks against a gold star family disqualifies him to be a commander in-chief.
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But even the most seemingly Teflon-coated bullies ultimately overstep, and Mr. Trump's cruel contempt for a Gold Star mother — whose son, a Muslim American soldier, was killed in Iraq — may be that time.
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"What this tax bill did to Gold Star families was wrong, but I've been heartened to see so many of my colleagues join me in a bipartisan effort to right this wrong," said Rep.
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Donald Trump has so poisoned the atmosphere by attacking the disabled, gold star parents, Muslims, Mexicans, Blacks, women, the press, the rule of law that a comedian who simply tells the truth is offensive?
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She's come up with a mechanical calendar that enforces good habits—"a personal gold star system," if you will—which only took going through the most traumatic health experience of her life to realize.
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There he criticized Trump for: planning to dismantle social security and medicare; disrespecting Gold Star military families; and "stok[ing] fear, hatred and violence toward people of color, Muslims and immigrants," among other things.
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Essentially, working tirelessly in your spare time for no compensation in order to improve the functioning of a smart assistant on behalf of a large corporation will now garner you a shiny gold star.
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A Washington Post-ABC News poll found a mere 12 percent of Americans approved and 73 percent disapproved of the way Trump responded to the Gold Star family, including 85033 percent of Trump supporters.
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From his decision to take on a Gold Star family to the "Access Hollywood" tape, every sign seemed to be pointing to the idea that Trump was just too, well, Trumpian for most voters.
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Frederica Wilson criticized Trump over a phone call she overheard between the president and a Gold Star widow, Kelly misrepresented her track record in Congress in an attack from the White House briefing room.
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Gold Star father Khizr Khan, who famously took on President Trump during the 2016 presidential election, announced Monday that he is endorsing Joe Biden in the 2020 race, per the New Hampshire Union Leader.
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Khizr Khan, the gold-star father of a Muslim American soldier who died fighting in Iraq, first gained national attention by provoking Donald Trump with his pocket Constitution at the Democratic National Convention in July.
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Kinzinger, an Air Force veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, watched the speech that replayed on air where Kelly, whose son was killed in Afghanistan, addressed Gold Star families in San Francisco in 2014.
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Rolling Remembrance, a partnership between PepsiCo and the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation, had a ceremony in Bradenton, FL along the 8,000-mile cross-country relay to raise college scholarship funds for Gold Star children.
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"To hear the reaction of the flight being delayed because of a Gold Star family, and the first class cabin booing that was really upsetting, and it made us cry some more," Perry told CBS.
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You called Mexicans criminals and rapists; you demeaned women and disparaged war heroes; you vowed to ban Muslims and deport 11 million undocumented immigrants; you even attacked a Gold Star family and a disabled reporter.
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Every time Trump's behavior violates some conservative value—from his alleged infidelity to his denigration of war heroes and gold-star families to his relentless crony capitalism—pundits predict his undoing, and Trump emerges unscathed.
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"Donald Trump and I believe that Captain Humayun Khan is an American hero and his family, like all Gold Star families, should be cherished by every American," Pence said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE.
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The 5-minute clip, posted to Trump's official Facebook and Twitter accounts on Thursday, intercut the Pelosi moment with the president praising national heroes like the Tuskegee Airmen and gold star families during his speech.
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Fans who bought the star's 2017 calendar shot by infamous fashion photographer Terry Richardson are receiving it in the mail – and having a "record scratch" moment when they go to gold star their girl's birthday.
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Donald Trump's presidential campaign was marked by verbal attacks on his opponents, with the candidate aiming public criticism at everyone from Ted Cruz to Hillary Clinton, from Megyn Kelly to Gold Star father Khizr Khan.
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"For this candidate for presidency to not be aware of the respect of a Gold Star mother standing there, and he had to take that shot at her, this is height of ignorance," Khan said.
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In Jones' case, he pledged earlier this year he would back Trump, but eased off that in a radio interview in August after the fallout this summer from Trump's attacks on a Gold Star family.
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Back in late July and early August, for instance, when Donald Trump was in free fall after spending a week attacking a Gold Star family, the campaign transferred funds and organizers to Georgia and Arizona.
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"Am forever grateful not only to those patriots who made the ultimate sacrifice for our Nation — but also the Gold Star families whose heritage is imbued with their honor and heroism," Bush concluded his tweet.
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His appearance in the briefing room on Thursday sought to lend credibility to the discussion over Gold Star families, given that Kelly's son Robert died when he stepped on a landmine in Afghanistan in 2010.
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The issue of condolence calls to the families of fallen soldiers came to the forefront last week, when Trump falsely claimed that his predecessors did less than he to reach out to Gold Star families.
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The Twitter battles with a rival nuclear power, members of his own party, the special counsel, TV hosts, a Gold Star widow, the Justice Department, mayors, senators, governors, our allies and many people in between.
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"Cory Gardner voted for a tax law that HIKED taxes on Colorado Gold Star families, forcing some military families to pay thousands of dollars more in taxes on their survivor benefits," one Facebook ad reads.
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One thing that was interesting was the existence of special hours for those who hold a Sam's Club Plus membership, which is the equivalent of a Costco Gold Star Executive Membership (but $20 less annually).
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With the speech, Mr. Trump sought to move past a tumultuous week that began with his disparaging members of a Gold Star military family who had spoken out against him at the Democratic National Convention.
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"Bottom line, it's about the fact that Mr. Trump attacked a Gold Star mother because of comments that the father made on behalf of the family," said Mr. SanPedro, a veteran of both Iraq wars.
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"If he begins to right the ship and focuses fire on Hillary Clinton instead of interparty fighting or picking on Gold Star families, that may convince some Republicans to give him a chance," he said.
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The 2016 feud with the Khan family struck a chord with other Gold Star families, including Karen Meredith, the mother of US Army 1st Lt. Kenneth Ballard, who was killed in Iraq in May 2004.
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And when people ranging from a former Miss Universe to a Gold Star family have challenged his policies and character, he has responded with offensive attacks on women, people of color, and the Muslim faith.
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At the time, Trump responded forcefully to the Gold Star family, suggesting wrongly that his wife, Ghazala Khan, might not have been "allowed" to speak and pushing back on Khizr Khan's assertions about the candidate.
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"Election year or not, the V.F.W. will not tolerate anyone berating a Gold Star family member for exercising his or her right of speech or expression," the group's leader, Brian Duffy, said in a statement.
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Brianna Keilar: With my husband deployed, covering the news hits home October 25 The last few days the news has been dominated by a controversy over Trump's call to Myeshia Johnson, a Gold Star widow.
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The journalists in the White House press room aren't part of Gold Star families and many don't know any—that lack of familiarity has led to this issue becoming a circus over the last week.
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"Trump's base likes him when he's gratuitously ornery: Insulting war heroes, Gold Star families and the disabled have all been good for him, so what does he gain by strongly opining on Moore?" asks Dezenhall.
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It was "The Gold Star Project," a temporary installation outside Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan created with the church's New Beginners seniors' group to mourn those who had died in conflicts in the Middle East.
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LET'S GO. 'Titanic' If you can honestly say that you've never tried to reenact the scene where Jack and Rose stand on the railing of the ship pretending to fly, you deserve a gold star.
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He claimed a judge had been unfair to him in a civil suit because of his Mexican ancestry, told his supporters to rough up protesters at his rallies, and viciously attacked a Gold Star family.
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Together, they were able to elevate Trump—a draft-avoiding, Gold Star-family-insulting, real estate tycoon—to the Oval Office, despite evidence that Trump had also reneged on promises of funding to veteran charities.
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Ms. Tomlin and Ms. Fonda, wearing a red felt hat with a gold star and a striped feather on its wide brim, arranged themselves behind a banner, and led the demonstrators to the Capitol steps.
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Talk turned to Trump's attack on Ghazala Khan, the Gold Star mother who appeared at the Democratic National Convention wearing a hijab; Trump implied that she didn't speak because she was muzzled by her husband.
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For instance, Cordova in 2016 publicly shared posts that suggested with no evidence that Khizr Khan — the Gold Star father who spoke at the Democratic National Convention and criticized Trump — was a Muslim Brotherhood agent.
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And if Trump can't remain compassionate in the presence of a crying baby and its mother — or Gold Star parents like the Khans — it raises serious questions about who, if anyone, he won't mock or attack.
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Addressing the tax on military survivor benefits is urgent, not only to provide financial relief to Gold Star families, but also to re-establish American principles surrounding how we treat those who serve, including their families.
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October 18: Trump fights with a Gold Star widow and her member of Congress Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof). Sad!
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid blasted Republican leaders for failing to revoke their endorsements of Donald Trump after the GOP nominee criticized the pair of Gold Star parents who slammed him at the Democratic National Convention.
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However, after Trump attacked a Gold Star family, Sondland sought to distance himself from Trump after The Seattle Times obtained an invitation to a August fundraiser for Trump that showed Sondland listed as an event sponsor.
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And just like with the Gold Star Khan family, Trump continued to wallow in the Miss Universe story while suggesting he plans to try make former President Bill Clinton's affairs a centerpiece of his campaign strategy.
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McCain is walking that high wire -- endorsing Trump but recently issued a statement criticizing Trump for his public spat with Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the gold star parents of a US Muslim soldier killed in Iraq.
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The good student, the girl who believed that she had to work ten times harder than anyone else, always striving for approval, hoping to get a gold star for my efforts and please anyone with authority.
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Apologists claim the echo's purpose is for "highlighting the massively high levels of Jewish Privilege & Power" while Engadget likened it to the gold star badges Jews were forced to wear during the Nazi's reign in Germany.
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Trump is so "over the top" that he walked all over Matt Lauer instead of being called to the mat for trashing a Gold Star family or saying he knows more about ISIS than our generals.
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Timing: Kelly's misrepresentation of what happened comes amid the White House's current feud with Wilson and the Gold Star widow of a soldier killed in Niger, which began over President Trump's alleged thoughtless choice of words.
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You'll recall that he used a veterans event to call a journalist a sleaze, lied about the size of his donation to a veterans charity, and bashed a Gold Star family using racist and Islamophobic rhetoric.
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Mr. Moman was a session guitarist at the renowned Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles in the late 21971s when he teamed up with the founders of Stax Records in Memphis, Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton.
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On Monday, more than 20 Gold Star Families wrote to Trump condemning his treatment of the couple, saying he was "cheapening the sacrifice" of soldiers who have died and demanding that he apologize to the Khans.
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But, as CNN's Jeff Zeleny has reported, Kelly and his wife attended a 2011 Memorial Day White House breakfast for Gold Star Families during the Obama administration, and were seated with then-first lady Michelle Obama.
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What kind of person gets so enraged by perceived slights that he punches down on Gold Star families, Miss Universe contestants, and federal judges of Mexican descent … and then asks to be given the nuclear codes?
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And two sources close to the Trump campaign said privately they wished Trump would apologize to the Gold Star family, even though the Khans attacked Trump from the stage at the Democratic National Convention last month.
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Washington (CNN)As the blowback to Donald Trump's public feud with a Gold Star family escalated on Monday, the GOP nominee's campaign sent out talking points to congressional supporters urging them to come to his defense.
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I went with the Gold Star membership because it has everything I need: the freedom to shop at Costco whenever my heart desires and a membership card for me as well as one for my husband.
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The list includes: women, journalists, Gold Star parents, Jews (Charlottesville), the Pope, Muslims, immigrants, LGBTQ Americans, the cast of Hamilton, Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump faces crucial decisions on economy, guns Are Democrats turning Trump-like?
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One Gold Star mother was Alleta Sullivan of Waterloo, Iowa, whose five sons, Joseph, Francis, Albert, Madison and George, had received special permission to serve together on the USS Juneau in World War II. On Nov.
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Moving posthumous collections donated by loved ones include the submissions of Gold Star Family members — the parents, spouses, siblings, and children of members of the Armed Forces who died as a result of their military service.
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"Now is the time to act, and House Republicans are committed to finding a solution that is both fair and retroactive so our Gold Star families keep what they have sacrificed so dearly for," Damschen said.
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It will be the same way at work: Hearing that you've done a great job is a fab way to keep morale high at the office, but a gold star isn't going to pay your rent.
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Groups of protestors line the perimeter of the ceiling, including two figures holding a sign that reads "Gold Star Mothers," an organization that was initially formed by mothers who had lost sons or daughters in WWI.
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But unlike you, she's fictional, and fabulous: a stunning black tax nerd and Gold-Star widow from Texas who's as familiar with the carried interest loophole as with the history of the sizzling fajita at Chili's.
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Because, when I served, no commander of mine would ever disrespect a Gold Star family or anyone else who honorably served our country by blindly accepting the word of a draft-dodging coward like Donald Trump.
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Scott Corsaut, a Marine veteran and interim president of America's Gold Star Families, a support group for the families of people killed during active duty, said he sympathized with the emotional nature of Mr. Trump's interactions.
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The press won't pat Trump on his head and give him a gold star for the few things he gets right, and then turn a blind eye to the overwhelming majority of things he gets wrong.
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Washington (CNN)Art museums, a Gold Star father, lawmakers, states and one of Donald Trump's personal lawyers are pleading with the Supreme Court ahead of Wednesday's oral arguments on the fate of the President's travel ban.
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Khan's attorney, Dan Jackson, said the Gold Star father felt compelled to weigh in because of the impact of the travel ban on his son's legacy, and added Khan has a "fierce devotion" to the Constitution.
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Paul was blamed, in article after article, citing "unnamed campaign officials," for everything from Trump's precipitous drop in the polls, his off-the-cuff remarks, to Trump's gross miscalculations, like publicly attacking the "Gold Star" family.
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For too long, "masculine-leaning presentation" was "the single gold star standard of queer style," Anita Dolce Vita, the founder and editor of dapperQ, a queer style magazine, argued in Them, Condé Nast's L.G.B.T.Q.-oriented website.
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"Election year or not, VFW will not tolerate anyone berating a Gold Star family member for exercising his or her right of speech or expression," said Brian Duffy, the head of VFW, in a statement Monday.
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I've played this game for hours on Virtuoso, and I genuinely could not tell you how I achieved my highest scores, which is a little frustrating now that I'm going for the game's elusive gold star ratings.
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And then, of course, the federal Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act; as well as another federal bill in the House called the Menstrual Equity for All Act, which has a lot of gold star aspects to it.
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Given that the Gold Star families reception on Monday evening was closed to the press, the hurricane briefing will mark the first lady's official first public outing since before undergoing a successful kidney procedure on May 14.
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Washington (CNN)Khizr Khan, who spoke at the Democratic National Convention about his Muslim-American son who was killed in the Iraq War, said Donald Trump doesn't understand the grief of his wife, a Gold Star mother.
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Trump suggested Sunday morning that he could not understand why he was earning scorn for questioning the two Gold Star parents who slammed him during a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on Thursday night.
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"Take him seriously, not literally," was the most seriously taken justification for Trump's broad appeal and his campaign's infinite supply of lifeboats from Titanic scandals of mocking the disabled, prisoners of war, Gold Star parents and Mexicans.
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Kelly and his wife, Karen Hernest Kelly, were invited to attend a 2011 Memorial Day breakfast for Gold Star families, those men and women whose children were killed in action, according to an aide, speaking on background.
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How I would feel if I had engaged in the kind of mocking of a gold star family, suggesting in some vague way that Second Amendment advocates might want to take the law into their own hands.
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Twenty-three Gold Star families wrote an open letter on Monday to Mr. Trump demanding an apology for his comments about the Khan family in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC News that aired on Sunday.
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McCain continues to reluctantly support Trump and the future will tell if his support will continue; as the VFW's statement notes, our respect and admiration for Gold Star mothers and fathers transcends all partisan and electoral considerations.
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The poll suggests that the post-convention bounces have subsided and that Mr. Trump has weathered a difficult August, in which he shuffled staff members, insulted a Gold Star family and confused voters about his immigration policy.
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" In a call from Los Angeles, a few days before President Trump's controversial condolence call to the Gold Star widow Myeshia Johnson, Mr. Fishburne talked about military sacrifice and the impact of his ABC series, "black-ish.
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"It's an honor for me, especially as a golfer," Mr. Trump said, after acknowledging a recipient of the Medal of Honor, a Gold Star widow and a number of professional golfers, including Phil Mickelson and Keegan Bradley.
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"Historically, after major tax legislation, the longstanding practice has been to correct drafting errors and other technical issues on a bipartisan basis," Mr. Grassley said after reports of the Gold Star family tax increase came to light.
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During the campaign, when Trump had a fight with the gold star parents of a fallen soldier, he claimed that he had made "a lot of sacrifices" for the country by being a successful real estate developer.
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"Donald Trump will have to think about what he's said in the past, his disparagement of that reporter ... with disabilities and have to think about the names he's called Gold Star families, Mexicans, to Muslims," Podesta said.
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The former kindergarten teacher and Gold Star sibling spoke with Refinery29 about her family's loss, why she finds the nominee's comments so hurtful, and what she wants to hear from candidates when it comes to supporting the military.
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He feuded with the family of a slain US soldier Trump lashed out at the Gold Star parents of a slain Muslim US soldier who died in Iraq after they sharply criticized him at the Democratic National Convention.
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"One example would be Donald Trump speaking badly about a Gold Star family, who I now am, but it also bothers me that people don't want to talk about the terrorism that killed my kid," he told CBS.
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After being out of the public eye for 22018 days, which included recovery time for a kidney procedure on May 28, the First Lady made an appearance at an event for military Gold Star families on Monday night.
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Obama's final mission: Help Clinton close the deal It's a strategy that exceeded the Clinton campaign's wildest dreams at the Democratic convention, where they gave Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan prime-time speaking slots attacking Trump.
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"President Trump is super-racist against African-Americans: housing discrimination, Central Park Five, Birtherism, attacking pregnant gold-star widow (and her congresswomen), degrading NFL players over fight for racial justice," Economist David Rothschild replied to Trump on Twitter.
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She pointed to Trump's attacks on the Gold Star Khan family and other controversies the GOP nominee had stirred up, as well as a host of prominent military figures saying Trump is unfit to be commander-in-chief.
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Washington (CNN)The Gold Star father who criticized Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention this summer said Tuesday the Republican presidential nominee mentioning his slain son's name on the debate stage made him sad all over again.
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Trump's belittling of a Gold Star mother, Ghazala Khan, mocking the physical disability of a reporter, vulgarities toward women and negative generalizations about immigrants, all point to an alarming lack of a sense of justice, if not humanity.
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We will hug our little ones a little tighter, and we'll think about all those Gold Star families out there -- wives without husbands, husbands without wives, children without moms or dads and moms and dads without their children.
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When asked Monday why he had not addressed the Niger incident more than a week after it occurred, Trump responded by falsely claiming former president Barack Obama and most of his other predecessors didn't call Gold Star families.
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As it happened, Monday morning provided another example of how Trump's inability to resist the temptation to reply to a critic leads to trouble, as he continued a feud with a Gold Star widow and a Florida congresswoman.
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After Mr. Trump's other crises — attacks on a Gold Star family, a Hispanic federal judge and the physical appearance of women, to name just a few — why did one recording, however vulgar, turn out to be so damaging?
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"My conscience wouldn't let me talk to him," Owens said later, in part because of Trump's treatment of Gold Star parents during the campaign, and in part because of serious questions about the wisdom of the operation itself.
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When Trump suffered his worst stretch of press this August — feuding publicly with a Gold Star family; suggesting his Democratic rival should be shot — he fell behind Hillary Clinton by as many as 7 points in the polls.
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Mr. Trump's charged relationship with Gold Star families — those who have lost relatives in war — took another turn with the White House's disclosure on Wednesday that it had sent a check for $25,000 to the family of Sgt.
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Jon Cordova, who serves as the principal deputy assistant secretary for administration at HHS, pushed baseless claims on his social media that Gold Star father Khizr Khan is a "Muslim Brotherhood agent" and made unfounded claims about Sen.
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While the change in the tax code may have had an immediate financial impact on Gold Star families this year, it may be a consequence of a more pervasive problem with how survivors benefits are classified and paid out.
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On a delayed flight from Sacramento to a connecting flight in Phoenix, the captain made an announcement that the Gold Star family needed to deplane first, which was met with a lot of backlash from the family's fellow passengers.
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"Taking care of our widows and their families is the nation's obligation," says Candace Wheeler, senior adviser for Policy and Legislation at the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, a nonprofit dedicated to caring and advocating for Gold Star families.
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His statement that Clinton has "tremendous hate in her heart" showed a stunning lack of self-awareness from the man who has disparaged Latinos, immigrants, a Gold Star family, a former Miss Universe, and people with disabilities -- among others.
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Naqvi, 69, a retired U.S. government engineer from Newburgh, New York, is a member of a small community of Muslims who are among America's Gold Star families, those whose loved ones were killed while serving in the U.S. military.
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Obama did not address President Donald Trump's false accusation that his predecessor failed to call any Gold Star families during his time in the White House; he did not mention President Trump or any member of Congress by name.
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He has spent the past three weeks creating news story after news story with decidedly off-message comments -- the biggest of which was going after Khizr and Ghazala Khan, Gold Star parents who attacked Trump at the Democratic convention.
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And that has made it harder -- if not impossible -- for Ayotte to completely separate herself from Trump, even as she has criticized his proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States and his fight with a Gold Star family.
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" The former secretary of state pledged on Wednesday that, as president, she would "never, ever disrespect Gold Star families who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation or prisoners of war who endured so much in our name.
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Opening up about how much he's been embraced by the late singer's peers in the music industry, Malek, 37, shared a story of the gold star treatment he got while attending one of McCartney's shows in London that December.
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Maybe it just reminds you of a simpler time, when all you were expected to do was type "Causes of the Cold War" in bubble letters in order to get a pat on the back and a gold star.
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So, dearest critics, wince away As I shout-out, this holiday, The Khizr Khans, that Gold Star clan, And kind Pope Francis, holy man, And Meryl Streep and S. E. Cupp— May all find joy that fills them up!
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Clinton, are spending millions of dollars to run a 60-second ad featuring a Gold Star mother recalling the day she heard her son had died in Iraq and the "sense of outrage" she felt over Mr. Trump's remarks.
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" Trump has come under recent criticism for his handling of Gold Star families, which began after Wilson, a Democratic Florida congresswoman, accused him of telling a Green Beret's widow that her husband "knew what he was signing up for.
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Trump, meanwhile, has spent the last two weeks all but asking voters to flee from him in droves—by inviting a foreign power to cyber-attack the country, attacking a gold star family, picking on a baby, etc. etc.
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It was about La David Johnson, one of the four US soldiers recently killed in Niger, whose death became a political football when Donald Trump opened a totally unnecessary can of worms about phone calls to gold star families.
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Given the number of times the White House's version of events has been disputed or debunked this past week, it seems reasonable to be skeptical of Trump's latest Twitter accusation that a Gold Star widow lied to the public.
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I don't need some random stranger on the internet, some dude, coming in and making me feel like the fact that he's not immediately trying to jerk off to me means he gets a fucking gold star for it.
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"Let's remember this is a guy who fights with or attacks anyone who crosses him, including Republicans, Gold Star families, and even his closest friends and allies if they even so much as question him in public," Meyers noted.
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One of the industry's bellwether events, promising "29,230 Years of Art, Antiques and Design," is both "a trove of potential artistic discoveries and a gold-star appointment on New York's social calendar," Jason Farago wrote of the 290 edition.
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Survivor benefits designated to children were previously taxed at the parent's rate, but changes in the 2017 tax law, which Republicans say were intended to simplify tax rules for child income, led to the steep hikes for some Gold Star families.
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After an unprecedented absence from public view, First Lady Melania Trump made her long-awaited reemergence Monday evening when she walked into the East Room of the White House alongside her husband for a ceremony to honor Gold Star families.
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One sees that in the way the show treats its diverse cast, not expecting a gold star for doing something that's entirely natural and realistic (of course a Brooklyn police precinct has Black, Latinx, and LGBTQ cops, and so forth).
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Given that Trump's administration only appears to do something after a major story breaks — the $25,000 Gold Star family check is a great example — it seems like the press, for all of its flaws, is uncovering quite a bit of truth.
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Can you imagine him insulting a Gold Star mother, casting obscene aspersions on a woman reporter who had done her job -- on Fox, indeed -- by tough questioning, pledging to round up and deport 12 million undocumented men, women and children?
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First Lady Melania Trump played host Monday evening to a private White House reception for Gold Star families—an event that was closed to reporters and news cameras, and one that comes after her 25-day absence from the public eye.
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In the weeks after Trump's assertion that an Indiana-born judge couldn't rule fairly because of his Mexican heritage and his fight with the Gold Star Khan family, Trump tumbled in the polls as Clinton built a double-digit lead.
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But in the aftermath of McCain's scathing rebuke of Trump for his battle with a Gold Star family of Muslim faith, the GOP nominee issued a stunning rebuke of the veteran Arizona senator and refused to endorse him in his primary.
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Clinton pointed to Trump's mocking of a disabled reporter, his attacks against a Gold Star family, his smear of a former Miss Universe, his comments about women, and questioning the motives of a federal judge and his labeling of Muslims.
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"I am appalled that Donald Trump would disparage them and that he had the gall to compare his own sacrifices to those of a Gold Star family," she continued, using the term for relatives of those killed in military service.
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Think of this as the real world version of extra credit or brownie points you'd get in school for turning in your work early—except instead of getting a gold star, you'll be rewarded with more money and less stress.
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Weixler is pulling down a "Warning: Sex Changes Everything" T-shirt to cover her crotch, which is obscured by a giant gold star, like the one Dawn's creationist biology teacher uses to obscure a textbook's page on the female reproductive system.
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The backdrop: Cordova, who serves as the principal deputy assistant secretary at HHS, had posted stories about Gold Star father Khizr Khan being a "Muslim Brotherhood agent" and made claims about Texas Senator Ted Cruz being involved in a sex scandal.
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The 70-minute lunch largely avoided the areas of dispute between Trump and his congressional cohorts, including his treatment of a Gold Star widow whose husband was killed in Niger and the multiple probes into his campaign's dealings with Russia.
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The complaint seems to be less that some people ask writers to think about cultural appropriation, and more that a writer wishes her work not to be critiqued for doing so, that instead she get a gold star for trying.
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The man with the world's worst impulse control, who has ranted at Gold Star families and judges, who casually fired his FBI chief, insulted America's allies and retweeted abominable lie-filled racist videos, still won't dare touch these kids directly.
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John McCain's war record, the public row with a Gold Star family or the boastful comments about grabbing women -- would have been enough for him to bow out under the force of public opinion before even reaching the White House.
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A Gold Star mom who led protests against former President George W. Bush in 85033, said in an interview published Tuesday that Bush was no better than President Trump when it comes to dealing with the families of fallen soldiers.
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Kelly, a Gold Star father, said he was "brokenhearted" by the congresswoman's criticism and said that he had advised Trump on what to say before he called the families of the four fallen soldiers who died during an ambush in Niger.
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The US delegation also included Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan, as well as US Embassy Ottawa Chargé d'Affaires Elizabeth Moore Aubin, Gold Star mother Karen Kelly, professional golfer Nancy Lopez and entertainer Wayne Newton.
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Gold Star is the moniker of Austrian born, LA bred artist Marlon Rabenreither, and it's a fitting one at that—his tunes are anchored in Americana and country-inflected grit, with something a little more timeless and bright around the edges.
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LEONARD S. MARCUS Brooklyn To the Editor: Let us not forget Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the Gold Star parents of Humayun Khan, an Army captain killed in Iraq, when tallying up the people whom Donald Trump has insulted on Twitter.
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Frederica Wilson (D-FL), who listened to Trump's call with the Gold Star Johnson family, he told an ugly story about Wilson's "empty-barrel" bragging about funding an FBI office — a story that turned out to be, in many particulars, untrue.
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He said that the congresswoman's willingness to breach the confidentiality of Mr. Trump's words is evidence of a broader decline in the values of an American society that no longer treats women, religion, "life" or Gold Star families as sacred.
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"On the one hand, he spoke with enormous moral clarity about the horrible burden Gold Star families experience and how that burden is very far removed from most Americans when we have such a small volunteer force," Ms. Schake said.
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In the bedroom of the suite, here were gold, star-shaped mylar balloons that he'd given his wife, Kathryn, whom he hadn't seen for 10 days because he was in Europe on his bromantic "Deadpool 4003" press tour with Ryan Reynolds.
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" After laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns on a gray and unseasonably cool day, Mr. Trump addressed a cheering crowd that included Gold Star families, honoring "the men and women who laid down their lives for our freedom.
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Washington (CNN)Gold Star father Khizr Khan wrote a personal appeal to the Supreme Court on Friday to strike down President Donald Trump's travel ban, using his family's story to argue the ban is unconstitutional and "desecrates" his son's sacrifice.
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She was shocked that a sitting mayor would be sent to a war zone, and she couldn't get the image of her grandmother's Gold Star pin — the one she received after losing a son, Anne's uncle — out of her mind.
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But Ms. Dingell is now joining the ranks of a more select group that includes the McCains and a Gold Star military family, who have suffered profound loss only to see it mocked and used as political ammunition by the president.
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A KFile review of Cordova's social media accounts found that he pushed stories filled with baseless claims and conspiracy theories, including stories that claimed Gold Star father Khizr Khan is a "Muslim Brotherhood agent" and made baseless claims about Sen.
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Conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin argues that Congress should start "barring generals from acting in civilian capacities in the White House" in her latest piece on the controversy between the Trump administration and those criticizing its handling of Gold Star families.
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Simply stop by your local CVS and you can grab a $9 metallic polish (or two) for your next DIY mani-pedi, plus an extra-special, gold star-printed bottle for the White Elephant swap you inevitably forget to shop for.
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"We should not be fighting about a great American who lost his life fighting this country," McCain said Monday about Trump's current feud with a Gold Star widow, continuing what has been a longstanding gripe about Trump's lack of civility.
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EXCLUSIVE: White House Chief of Staff John Kelly fired back at a prominent House Democrat who called him a "disgrace to the uniform," in the Gold Star father and retired Marine Corps general's first public response to the personal attack on his service.
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"Time and time again Trump has disrespected our nation's Armed Forces and veterans – and his disrespect for Mr. Khan and his family is just an example of that," Byrne said, referencing Trump's controversial comments about Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan.
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