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Gold Star Mothers
National Monument Foundation
(GSMNMF)
30 Eraser Road, 1st Floor
Moorestown, NJ 08057
Phone
856-235-6918
or 610-328-1557
We are a 501(c)(3) organization. Tax deductible
donations may be sent to our address above.
Contact Andrew Chernak for:
Contact webmaster for:
Leadership
Chairmen
Judith Young, GSM, PNP
COL Ward Nickisch, USA, Ret.
Board of Directors
Executive Director
Andrew Chernak, Sculptor, Designer
Thomas Fortune Fay, ESQ
Norma Luther, Secretary
Jack Leonard, MOPH
Artie Muller, Rolling Thunder
Rich Sanders, VietNow
Rick Weidman, VVA
LTC Stacie truheart U.S.Army
William trueheart, USA Ret.
J. C. Cummings, Architect
Harvey Davis, Webmaster
Robert Doubek, Senior Consultant
Judi Tapper, GSM, Pin Sales
Jeffrey White, Archivist
Honorary Board Members
Dorothy Oxendine, GSM PNP
Maj Gen Albert G. Rogers, USAF, Ret.
Brig Gen Wilma L. Vaught, USAF, Ret.
James M. Blaylock, MOPH
We Need Your Support
For those who wish to donate funds or know of individuals,
corporations, and other entities whom we could contact for
donations, please . Please make checks payable to: Gold Star Mothers
National Monument Foundation
and mail to our address
above.
Veterans Organizations:
Please support this cause. Your fallen
comrades are gone, not forgotten, we can still show our love for
them and their Mothers by financially supporting this Monument.
See the Gold
Star Mothers National Monument Blog for more information.
Interstate Batteries is helping to support the Monument Fund.
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Gold Star Mothers National Monument
Mission Statement
To honor the Mothers whose sons and daughters gave
their life in the service of our country. This monument is sponsored
by the Gold Star Mothers
National Monument Foundation. For all mothers who know the
grief of losing a child in the service of our country, to promote a
bond of kinship, and to engage in support for servicemen, the
Veterans community, and others who memorialized our nation's
defenders.
Contribution sponsors
Gold: $20,000.00 and over
Rolling Thunder National
Military Order of Purple Heart Service Foundation
New Jersey Run for the Fallen
Silver: $5,000.00 to 19,999.00
VietNow
American Legion Dept of MA.
Carry The Flame
Bronze: $1,000.00 to $4,999.00
AMVETS
Ship Bottom NJ Irish Festival
AGSM’S Dept. NJ
Inter Clubs of Bucks/Mont. Co. PA
Thomas F. Fay, ESQ
North Andover MA. Credit Union
Arlene Pycior
Camden Co. NJ Vets Dinner/Dance
Wells Fargo
Memory of SSGT Josh Powell
Delaware Veterans Inc.
Rolling Thunder-NJ #2
Ride for Freedom 2009
Memory of Myrtle Weston, GSM
AGSM’S Dept. MO
Andrews Federal Union, MD
PSE&G, NJ
Rolling Thunder-VA #3
Commentary
by Andrew L. Chernak, Sculptor/Designer
The loss of a child in any circumstance is a grievous blow to a
family, but,
uniquely so to the mother who bore that child. One
group of Mothers that especially stands apart from the norm are the
Gold Star Mothers of America's fallen heroes. They are patriotic,
loyal, and sympathetic. They understand our nation’s freedom is not
to be taken for granted. The grief and loss these women have endured
never leaves them, yet the Mothers rise above their pain in tribute
to life going on. The Mothers have collectively served millions of
hours in volunteer work, personal service in our nation's Veterans
hospitals, and to the Veteran and his family in their community. In
serving this way, the Mothers have turned their grief into a
positive force. If you want to know quiet greatness, spend a little
time in the presence of a Gold Star Mother.
Enabling Legislation
The Gold Star Mothers National Monument Act of 2011,
HR 1980, was introduced on 5/25/2011. The bill authorizes the Gold
Star Mothers National Monument Foundation to establish a monument in
the District of Columbia area, as a unit of the National Park
System, to be known as the Gold Star Mothers National Monument.
Bill Text,
Bill Status,
Cosponsors |
National Defense Authorization Act
Passes, Dec 20, 2012
This legislation authorizes the use of
federal lands for the National Monument for
the Gold Star Mothers, a fitting tribute to
the mothers of our nation’s fallen
warfighters.
More...
New England Gold Star
Mothers Memorial installed
The statue, the central
element of the memorial was designed by
Andrew Chernak. Dedication set for
Sunday, May 1, 2011, in Stanton Plaza, on
Elm Street across from Veterans Park,
Manchester, NH.
More...
NH Gold Star Mothers
Statue Unveiled.
The American Civil War Museum Complex in
Gettysburg, PA hosted the
Gold Star Mothers New England Regional
Monument and sculptor Andrew Chernak for a
ceremony honoring our Nation’s Gold Star
Mothers on Saturday, August 14, 2010 for a
special unveiling and service honoring the
Gold Star Mother statue that was in transit
to permanently reside in New Hampshire.
More photos courtesy of
Patrick J. Hughes Photography.
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