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Oct 14, 2011

Patty Desens (center right), American Gold Star Mother with the Azalea Chapter, and Ronald Bower (left), past district governor at District 37, Toastmasters International, presented Col. Daniel Lecce, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune commanding officer, and Sgt. Maj. William Rice, MCB Camp Lejeune sergeant major, with a bronze plaque dedicated to American Gold Star Mothers aboard MCB Camp Lejeune, Oct. 14. American Gold Star Mothers honors all the mothers who have lost a son or daughter in combat or in a time of war. Rolling Thunder Chapter NC-5 in Jacksonville, N.C. worked together to fund the plaque on behalf of the American Gold Star Mothers. The plaque will be placed beside the Beirut Memorial Observance in the Lejeune Memorial Gardens to be unveiled immediately following the annual Beirut Memorial Ceremony, Oct. 23.

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