gold star family

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gold star family (plural gold star families)

  1. (US military) the immediate family of a U.S. soldier who was killed in action
    • 2021 December 7, Paul Krugman, “Where Have All the Grown-ups Gone?”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      And when he came down with a life-threatening case of Covid, he suggested that he might have caught it from Gold Star families he had met with after his positive test — that is, he blamed people he himself had callously endangered.

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