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Kate Flynn at Kent holding a service flag with two blue stars, for her brothers serving in the Army during World War I. "On May 28, 1918, President Wilson approved a suggestion made by the Women’s Committee of the Council of National Defenses that, instead of wearing conventional mourning for relatives who have died in the service of their country, American women should wear a black band on the left arm with a gilt star on the band for each member...