"There's a Little Blue Star in the Window (And It Means All the World to Me)"
by Henry Burr
Sheet music courtesy of Clarence Johnson |
"There's a Little Blue Star in the Window" uses Creel's creation of a symbol for American mothers to beatify and elevate the war effort and the sacrifice of the mothers who originally denied their sons to the war. There were banners, plaques, pins, posters, all designed to recognize families who had sent sons to the war. When the son became a casualty, the blue stars could be exchanged for gold, making the mother a "gold-star mother." More than one star inside the little red outline of the box was the signature of a family with many reasons to be concerned. The "little blue star" is still in use by mothers with children in the modern army.
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