Gold Star Mentors™

Providing guitars and lessons to children, young adults and siblings of fallen service members, using music as another means of coping and healing.

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We love Brett Jones and @goldstarmentor ! Our longtime friends and supporters, they bring love, fun, music, and healing to our young adults year after year ❤️ 🇺🇸

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"I am so, so happy to be here with my TAPS family again this year. I love you guys and I look forward to doing this every year. You are my family, and having my brother here, Frank Myers, to help me, this has been a magic weekend.

—Brett Jones thanking TAPS at Good Grief Camp

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"THE CAUSE IS GREATER THAN I…" —Herschel “Woody” Williams, Medal of Honor Recipient
In honor of those who have passed, Gold Star Mentors offers grief counseling in the form of guitar lessons to help the children and siblings of fallen service members.

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MAKING A DIFFERENCE THROUGH MENTORSHIP.
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington

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WE NEED YOUR HELP
"It is our goal to put guitars in the hands of the surviving children of service men and women who have given the ultimate sacrifice for our country. We need your help to make this goal come true." –Brett Jones

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GIFT A GUITAR & GIVE HOPE
Gold Star Mentors™ provides guitars and introductory lessons of playing to children, young adults, and siblings of fallen service members. Join us in gifting guitars, capos, tuners, and a lasting gift of hope and healing.

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GOLD STAR FAMILY—A title reserved for families of military members who have died in the line of duty, the title honors the service member's ultimate sacrifice while acknowledging their family's loss, grief and continued healing.

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Founded in 2017 by award-winning songwriter Brett Jones, Gold Star Mentors will work in tandem with TAPS this weekend as part of Good Grief Camp to help children and young adults cope with the loss of a family member by gifting guitars and using music as a form of healing.

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This weekend, our nation will pause to honor those who have served and died. Gold Star Mentors will join TAPS' Good Grief Camp in Arlington, Virginia to teach guitar lessons to children and young adult family members who have lost military family member.

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Gold Star Mentors™ provides guitars and introductory lessons of playing to children and young adults who have lost a military loved one.

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Your support puts guitars in the hands of children, young adults, and siblings of fallen service members who will receive guitar lessons from Gold Star Mentors over Memorial Day weekend as part of Tragedy Assistance for Survivors' 29th Annual National Military Survivor Seminar.

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Over Memorial Day weekend, Brett Jones, Frank Myers, and volunteers from @TAPSorg & Gold Star Mentors will teach guitar lessons at the Tragedy Assistance for Survivors (TAPS) 29th Annual National Military Survivor Seminar And Good Grief Camp in Arlington, Virginia.

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A Gold Star Family is one that has lost an immediate family member in the line of duty of military service.

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This marks the fourth year of Gold Star Mentors’ partnership with TAPS. Your continued support allows us to provide survivors with the tools they need to get started playing: guitars, capos, tuners, and lessons. https://t.co/jRExTD1Ikz
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Brett Jones, Frank Myers, and volunteers will teach guitar lessons at the National Military Survivor Seminar And Good Grief Camp in Arlington, Virginia this month. Your support puts guitars, kapos, and tuners in the hands of those who will receive lessons from Gold Star Mentors.

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We are grateful to offer guitar lessons as a means of coping to children and young adult relatives of fallen service members. Honoring and remembering U.S. Military personnel who are no longer with us is what Memorial Day is all about.

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Gold Star Mentors will be teaching four songs over the Memorial weekend event to new and returning participants of Good Grief Camp. Your support puts guitars, kapos, and tuners in the hands of those who will receive guitar lessons from Gold Star Mentors.

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Gold Star Mentors, named in honor of those who served and lost teir lives for our country, provides guitars and introductory music lessons to children & young siblings of fallen service members.

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"Gold Star Mentors meets survivors in the wake of a painful loss of their loved one who served our country. The GSM guitar program gives these survivors a chance to feel the power of expressing thoughts and feelings through the creation of music, which can transcend words alone."

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Gold Star Mentor Heath Wright says his biggest and best accomplishment is his son, Dustin Heath. He still calls Vian, Oklahoma home and spends his time raising a small herd of cattle on the family farm, aptly named the Rockin' W Ranch.

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