Exhibit Name and Logo
During both World Wars families and local businesses remembered those serving by hanging a "Service Flag." These flags were usually white with a red border and in the center bore a blue star for each household or community member in service. If someone died while in service, the blue star was replaced or covered by a "Gold Star." This exhibit revives the use of the gold star to honor all those lost. (from The Flag Book of the United States, by Whitney Smith, c. 1975)
To see a Service Flag, visit the National Archives Online Exhibit Hall - World War II Posters: Powers of Persuasion at http://www.nara.gov/exhall/powers/watching.html. The flag is used in the poster . . . Because Somebody Talked! by Wesley, 1943, at http://www.nara.gov/exhall/powers/somebody.jpg.
To learn more about Charlotte and Mecklenburg County during World War II, please visit The Home Front. To find a list of soldiers and patriots who survived the war and more information is available about them in the Carolina Room, please go to http://www.cmstory.org/homefront/people/othersList.htm.
The following veterans are featured in this exhibit's logo, found at http://www.cmstory.org/ww2 (beginning at 12 o'clock and moving around the star clockwise): John W. Crowley, William Carl Deese , Hayward Alexander , Floyd Douglas Terry , and David Anderson Allen .
