Gold Star Mothers Ceremony

It is our honor, once again, to have the PGR  invited to the Gold Star Mothers Ceremony on Sunday, Sept 27, 2009.  This is the forth year that we have been asked to participate.

The ceremony will mark Gold Star Mother’s Day, which has been commemorated on the last Sunday in September since President Franklin Roosevelt declared the first Gold Star Mother’s Day in 1936.
 

Date:  Sunday, September 27, 2009
             
Location: 
            UIC Campus
            Student Center East
            750 S. Halstead
            Chicago, IL  60607
 
            map of location    http://tinyurl.com/17ag3u

 
 
Staging Time:  11:30 AM

  
Mission Brief: 12:15 PM
  
Flag Line: 12:30 PM
  
The actual ceremony begins at 1:30 PM.

Gov. Pat Quinn will present Gold Star Banners to Illinois mothers whose sons and daughters died over the past year while serving their country in the Global War on Terror.
 
Please join us in honoring our Gold Star families, it is an event you will always remember.
 

Motorcycles are to be parked to the south of the Student Center on the service drive.  We will have parking passes for any cars that need to be parked.  Parking will be available in the parking structure across the street from the Student Center on Halsted; enter on Taylor St.. 
 
RC's.
VUK     vukf@aol.com     847-903-4657
Debbie “Boots” Crudele   pgrboots@yahoo.com      630.254.3368