Fox News apologized Saturday to a Gold Star family for publishing a false story last month claiming that the family had to pay $60,000 to ship the remains of their fallen relative back from Afghanistan because the Pentagon refused to pay.
Fox News apologized Saturday to a Gold Star family for publishing a false story last month claiming that the family had to pay $60,000 to ship the remains of their fallen relative back from Afghanistan because the Pentagon refused to pay.
What kind of dystopian hellscape do you guys live in that ‘gold star families’ is a concept?
Good little proles, you threw your child in the belly of Moloch for our profits, you get a gold fucking star.
It’s slang. Families used to put a blue star on their house. If they had a member who was deployed. The star would be changed to gold if the family member was killed in service.
I’m only guessing from reading the caption, but ‘pentagon’ leads me to believe the gold star is an award given to a soldier and not the family.
-so much for giving the benefit of the doubt. It is some weird shit after all.
Gold star families.
There is also a Gold Star Medal that can be awarded for soldiers who acted in valor.
That’s not where the term comes from though. The term comes from slang from a tradition where families would put a blue star on their home. If they had a soldier who has been deployed. They would change the star to gold if the soldier was killed in service.