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I promised this over the weekend. Just now got around to finding it and posting it. It was distributed by The Associated Press about two weeks ago.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Kelly Adams is a Blue Star mom.

And sometime late on Halloween night, someone stole her Blue Star flag from the front door of her pale pink house.

The thief opened her screen and grabbed the small, red-trimmed banner, leaving behind a smear of fake blood on the glass.

Tanya Rhodes is a Blue Star mom, too.

The two moms know each other.

But before their kids joined the service, neither knew exactly what Blue Star mom meant.

So they each Googled it.

They discovered the tradition of displaying small flags with blue stars began during World War I. They found out the flags were to be hung in the window closest to the street as a way of telling your community you had a loved one serving in wartime.

They learned that mothers started stitching the flags when their sons left for war.

"I think it's really just like a bragging-rights flag," Kelly said Wednesday.

In 1917, the Congressional Record put it this way: "The world should know of those who give so much for liberty."

So each mother hung a small flag.

And Tanya hung a second one at work. Red and white with a single blue star in the middle.

The blue star on Kelly's flag was in honor of her son, Brett Browne.

The blue star on Tanya's was for her daughter, Ashley Schenkel.

Brett and Ashley were high school sweethearts.

The 2007 Lincoln High grads signed up for the military the same week.

They're not sweethearts anymore, but they are friends.

So are their moms.

"We can visit for hours," said Tanya.

Her daughter is in the Navy. Her last deployment just ended and she's back at port in San Diego.

Kelly's son Brett refuels planes 30,000 feet above Afghanistan.

Neither Brett nor Ashley has spent a holiday at home since they signed up for service four years ago.

"I cry," Tanya said. "On my way to work, any day, every day. Kelly is very strong, in my opinion."

Tanya is wearing a blue Navy sweat shirt Wednesday. Her license plate says "Navy Mom."

Kelly's sweat shirt says USAF across the front. A photo of Brett in his dress uniform sits on a table with pictures of his three siblings.

Both moms supported their children's decisions to enlist. Brett and Ashley plan to make the military a career.

"Ashley just re-enlisted yesterday," said Tanya.

It's a point of pride.

And so was the Blue Star flag.

After Kelly discovered her flag missing, she posted some choice words about the thief on her Facebook page.

Why would anyone want the small, personal banner?

Tanya can't understand it either.

Which is why she took Kelly one of her Blue Star flags this week.

People need to know those flags are just like the American flag, she said.

"Whoever stole it doesn't understand what it meant," Tanya said.

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Great story. Thanks for sharing it!!

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