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Is it true that USPS has not issued a commemorative stamp in honor of the Sullivan Brothers and why not?
Post Office Information Service Release No. 513
Thursday, September 16, 1948
Sheet of Gold Star Mothers Stamp to be presented to Mrs. Sullivan
Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson today announced that the first sheet of the 3-cent Gold Star Mothers commemorative Postage Stamp will be presented to Mrs. Thomas F. Sullivan at Waterloo, Iowa, on September 21, 1948.
On the same day the new stamp will be placed on first-day sale at Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Sullivan's five sons lost their lives when the cruiser Juneau was sunk by an enemy torpedo in the Pacific on November 13, 1942.
Special ceremonies will be held at Waterloo when Robert E. Fellers, United States Superintendent of Stamps, acting for the Postmaster General will present an album containing the sheet of stamps to Mrs. Sullivan.
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