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The United States Congress in 1929 passed legislation to invest in travel for moms of the fallen military of World Conflict I to visit their sons' graves in France. Over the next 3 years, 6,693 Platinum Star Mothers made the trip. On this emotionally charged, brilliantly realized novel, Apr Smith breathes life into a distinctive minute in American record, imagining the experience of five of these women. They can be strangers at the start, but their lives can be inextricably intertwined, modified in indelible ways. These completely different Gold Star Mothers happen to be the Meuse-Argonne North american Cemetery to state final good-byes with their sons and get together along the way to face the unpredicted: a death, a scandal, and a hidden knowledge revealed. None of these pilgrims will be as affected as Cora Blake, who may have lived almost her lifetime in a little fishing village off the shoreline of Maine, caring for her overdue sister's three daughters, wanting to load the void kept by the death of her boy, Sammy, who was killed on a scouting mission through the final times of the warfare. Cora believes she is handling as well as should be expected amid the Major depression, but nothing at all has well prepared her for what is placed ahead on this unpredictable journey, including an extraordinary face with an expatriate American journalist, Griffin Reed, who was wounded in the trenches and hides behind a steel cover up, one of hundreds of "tin noses" who became symbols of the warfare. With expert storytelling, memorable heroes, and beautiful prose, Apr Smith gives us a amazing story, by converts heartwarming and heartbreaking, placed against a footnote of record - little known, yet unforgettable.
