Honoring Colonel Flash ANDREW JOHNSON Gold Star Memorial Trail Committee member and Gold Star father It is hard to believe that it was only a year and a week since the Gold Star Memorial Trail was dedicated by Col. Douglas Fleischfresser. Chaplain Flash, as he was known by people who knew him, was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident the following month on July 13, 2019. Col. Flash

Memorial Day Perspective From A Gold Star Father By Andrew Johnson Immediate Past President NNA And Goldstar Father Memorial Day is a time our nation remembers its war dead, the military heroes who gave their lives since our country’s founding so we can be free. This year our country is facing a different kind of war with the attack of the coronavirus disease on our citizens. No community

The ‘Other Losses’ Of D.G.O. By Karl McCarty He was born via Cesarean Section on April 16, 1927, in a rudimentary operating room near Berlin. He died December 7, 2019, on a date pertinent for an American veteran. What happened in between is the most interesting biography I ever heard. This is not a story representing American veterans. Dietrich Otto had the wisdom to conclude,