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Originally posted by honeychile
I see that Ligaya Lagman has dropped her quest.
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I can't help wonder if it was ever her quest to begin with.
"Lagman’s application was initiated by Ben Spadaro, a veteran from Yonkers, who said he learned about the citizenship rules of the American Gold Star Mothers while working on a national cemetery committee of the Veterans Administration. When he learned of Anthony Lagman’s death and saw Lagman was a citizen but his mother was not, he thought, “He’s buried in a military cemetery, with full honors. She should be able to join.”
“We decided to tell the absolute truth on the application,” he said. “We put down, ‘I am not an American citizen.’ It was a ploy to get them to reject her, and then we said they should change the rules.”
I don't see much in the original article that quotes her. It's all about a bunch of others who have an agenda.
If she really wants to be in the origanization, she should be allowed. If the Gold Star Mothers remain intransigent to her or to others in her position -- shame on them.
If this is a ruse to use her situation to attack the organization, shame on them.
A just cause needs to be served -- but not by deception.
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