And any Gold Star family who visits the White House during this season will have the opportunity to decorate their own ornament and hang it on that very tree for the entire holiday period in honor of their loved ones.

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Ms. SYLVESTER: The fact that they'd hang on to something like that, that's a tree, that's just covered in people's spit.

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