For our Gold Star wives and moms. We love your strength and grace.
"It is important to remember that when choosing who among the Spartan Peerage would represent the city at the Hot Gates against the Persian, it was not martial virtue or displays of courage that determined who would go or stay; but the strength of their women, wives and mothers, that even if the ultimate sacrifrice must be paid, would still stand, proud and upright, supportive of their Warrior and his cause."