Sunday, May 18, 2008

Mothers give more in fight for freedom

We don't usually think of Mother's Day as a patriotic holiday, but maybe we should. No other single group in our history has given so much for the freedom and security of this country. "Last May, I was at a Post 4093, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Ladies Auxiliary dedication of a Blue Star Mothers memorial. As I listened, I learned what it was like to be the mother of a serviceperson serving in a war. The fear that her son or daughter might not come back. Or the other fear, that he or she might come back broken either in body or spirit."

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