A Star for Mrs. Blake - April Smith
A Star for Mrs. Blake - April Smith The United States Congress in 1929 passed legislation to fund travel for mothers of the fallen soldiers of World War I to visit their sons’ graves in France. In…
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A Star for Mrs. Blake - April Smith
The United States Congress in 1929 passed legislation to fund travel for mothers of the fallen soldiers of World War I to visit their sons’ graves in France. In this emotionally charged, brilliantly realized novel, April Smith breathes life into a unique moment in American history, imagining the experience of five of these women.They are strangers at the start, but their lives will become inextricably intertwined, altered in indelible ways. Over the next three years, 6,693 Gold Star Mothers made the trip.
These very different Gold Star Mothers travel to the Meuse-Argonne American Ce