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The American Gold Star Mothers

 
 
The American Gold Star Mothers Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Don Morfe, January 12, 2012
1. The American Gold Star Mothers Marker
Inscription.
To the truly brave-The Mothers.
Do you ask for a song of courage.
In this day of bloodshed and woe,
when all about us are heroes
and brave men wherever we go!
To grown all of these, could there yet be another
who’s ahead in each contest, how and where it be fought?
Indeed, yes, there is her name? It’s just “Mother”
with courage that can never be bought.
By Nettie Parks Hutchins.
Dedicated Memorial Day 1970 to The American Gold Star Mothers
 
Erected 1970.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, KoreanWar, VietnamWar, World II.
 
Location. 39° 27.382′ N, 76° 37.273′ W. Memorial is in Timonium, Maryland, in Baltimore County. It is on East Padonia Road. The marker is located in the Field of Honor Section, Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 200 E Padonia Road (Cemetery entrance), Lutherville Timonium MD 21093, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the Baltimore Metro Region and in Central Maryland. It is also in the
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American Mid-Atlantic, in the Chesapeake Bay Region, and on the Eastern Seaboard. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once one of the original Thirteen Colonies and also the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Memorial (a few steps from this marker); World War II and Korean War Memorial (a few steps from this marker); General James P. S. Devereux Memorial (a few steps from this marker); The Field of Honor (a few steps from this marker); Memorial to Marylanders-Liberation of Kuwait (a few steps from this marker); Memorial to All Marylanders who lost lives to Terrorists (a few steps from this marker); White Marble Block (approx. 0.4 miles away); Property Boundary Marker (approx. 0.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Timonium.
 
The American Gold Star Mothers Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Don Morfe, January 12, 2012
2. The American Gold Star Mothers Marker
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on December 21, 2025. It was originally submitted on August 12, 2017, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. This page has been viewed 435 times since then and 15 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on August 12, 2017, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.
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