GOLD STAR MOTHER - November 6, 1978

“When a child was killed in the service, the parents were given a cloth gold star to hang in the window. I used the crucifixion because that’s a symbol that everybody knows. You hang somebody on a cross, and they die. So this is Mary, only it’s the gold star mother. Mary at the cross, how she must have felt. But any woman would have these same feelings, were her son dead. When something gets too hopeless, I put a rainbow in. There is always hope.”