TURNING GRIEF INTO GIVING

It’s an organization that no mother ever wants to join. Unbearable pain, tragic loss and heartache are all experiences that Mona Gunn ’74 and the other courageous women have had to endure, but it’s not the grief that bonds them; it’s the giving.

Gunn’s grief, tragedy and resiliency have set the stage for her to make history as she prepares in 2019 to become the first African-American president of American Gold Star Mothers Inc. The organization focuses on giving back to the country after the loss of a son or daughter in the military.

For Gunn, it came the morning of October 12, 2000 after she received a phone call from her sister who saw something quite disturbing on the local news.

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