"your mother hoping to hang that Gold Star"

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 22:21, Sean Lawler wrote:
> The "gold star" refers to an award given to mothers who lost sons in the
> war.  So the implication is that everyone is out to get you, even your
> mother, who prefers the romanticized notion of a dead hero son to you, an
> actual living son.  This passage has been on my mind a lot lately while
> watching endless CNN People in the News segments about families tearfully
> (cheerfully?) waving their loved ones off to war.

It's a partial answer to Roger's famous meditation on WHAT THE WAR
WANTS. p.131

My mother is the war declares Roger . . . . P.39

P.