in 1940, alben and gunda borgstrom said farewell to their two oldest sons, boyd and clyde, as they wentrve our country in world war ii. as was customary for the time, mrs. borgstrom hung a service flag in her window in thatcher, utah -- a flag with a white field and a red border. two blue stars were sewn in the middle. in 1942, she added another blue star for her son leroy, who joined the military as a medic. the following year she added two more blue stars for her twin boys rolon and rulon. they were just 18. she anxiously awaited the return of her 5 boys. in her own words, “the nightmare began on march 17, 1944. i answered the door and there was the western union man, with a telegram for me.” clyde was the first to lose his life in the war effort. the service flag in the window of the borgstrom home, once adorned with only blue stars, now carried one overlaid with gold -- a sad symbol that everyone of that era understood. just a few short weeks later, another telegram turned a second blue star to gold. leroy, the medic, had died while saving a fellow soldier in italy. then it was rolo