Between 1930 and 1933, the US government funded and organized 6,654 pilgrimages to Europe for American mothers to go and visit the graves of their sons who had fallen in battle. In this history of the program for the Gold Star mothers, as they were known, Graham (manager of the government and business dept. The Public Library of Cincinnati), explores the legislative genesis of the program and discusses various aspects of the program as it operated in practice. Drawing no major general conclusions, he looks at the responsibilities of the program's administrator, the US Army's Quartermaster Corps, discusses the way the program dealt with issues of race and segregation, and profiles pilgrims and their experiences.