Gold Star Siblings | -Experience, Empathy, & Love For Our Military Families-

REALIZATION:
Some people are uncomfortable with who I am becoming as a result of my loss.
Some even feel fear.

I see it in their faces.

They don't know how to "act."

If they only knew that "acting" is not what I need.

If they only knew what gifts we could give each other through the experience of sorrow.

Our Founder, Karen Hickman at Local Vietnam
Veterans Memorial, Pointing to her Brothers
Name.

Our Webmaster, Lynzee Hickman Welcoming Home
Our Local National Guard.

Finished Gold Star Blanket

Karen with her Gold Star Uniform.

Lynzee The Web Master.

The Official Site of Gold Star Siblings, Inc

501C3 Non-Profit Charitable Organization

Who we are:
Our founder is a Gold Star Sibling with 30+
years of dealing with the loss of her brother
and all the different feelings that we face
along the way.

She is freely using her experience and her
resources to help any sibling along the path
of healing. With the help of her friends and
family, they will do everything possible to
make this terrible loss, less unbearable, if
possible.

Who is a -Gold Star Sibling?-
There has been some misunderstanding of
what being a Gold Star Sibling is. A GSS
is any brother or sister who loses a brother
or sister to war. This Organization is not just
for siblings that had siblings killed in battle,
but also including siblings who have been
wounded and died/death by suicide or
death in any kind of accident. If the Sibling
is a veteran and we lose him/her you are a
Gold Star Sibling.

We have resources that we can put you in
contact with if they are so needed.

-Resources-

One of the best places for her to call is Military One Source at
1-800-342-9647. She needs to tell them that she is the mom of a
recently deceased soldier and she needs to speak with a counselor.

They have a "contracted" telephone counselor who will talk as long as
she needs and also assess her risk. They are free and are very good.
I called them as asked for help and they were excellent.

She must tell them she needs to speak with a counselor and they will
connect her 24/7...

Let me know if you need more.

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-Resource-

Carl Cronk: Veterans Service Officer: Titles that I have
Carl Cronk
Saginaw Michigan
Veterans Service Officer forty two years
Army Retired twenty years
Department of Defense Retired twenty two years
Vietnam Veteran, Twenty Fifth Infantry, 1966
Army Mentor thru Department of the Army for Army Personnel
U.S. Army Ambassador, Pentagon Freedom Team: Certificates of Appreciation for Army Veterans from the General of the Army:
U.S. Army Ambassador, Pentagon, Traumatic Life Insurance: Possible financial help for current war veterans who have traumatic brain injury in addition to other physical war related injuries:
U.S. Army Ambassdor, Pentagon, Combat Related Special Compensation for some veterans receiving militray retirement and compensation from the Veterans Administration:
Volunteer for Give An Hour.Org: Taking care of Veterans with Post Traumatic Stress and Suicide Prevention:
Volulnteer for Gold Star Siblings: Taking care of those Siblings who have lost brothers and sisters in war:
I am Authorized to put World War II Veterans on the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C.
I am Authorized to place any Army, Army Reserve, National Gard and Army Air Corp from World War II into the National Army Museum in Washington D.C.
I am also Authorized to get letters from the White House for anyone that has been married at least fifty years, At least eighty years of age, and Has been in the military at least thirty years upon retirement

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