This Sunday, moms across the country will be treated to breakfast
in bed, homemade cards, bouquets of flowers and fancy dinners in restaurants.
But for those who have sons and daughters fighting wars overseas, Mother’s Day
won’t be all roses.
The term "Military Mothers" describes two distinct
groups of women. On the one hand, it describes mothers whose sons and daughters
are members of the military. On the other, it describes mothers who are
themselves members of the military.
Though many military mothers have grown used to their children’s
absences on Mother’s Day and other special occasions, it doesn’t make those
times any easier especially for moms whose sons and daughters are in the line
of fire in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Mothers whose children are in the military and deployed to
military bases around the world or serving in a war zone far from home, live
with daily fear and worry for the lives of those to whom they gave birth, and
nurtured into the fine young men and women they are. They worry that those
children may return home with missing limbs or with PTSD, and may not be the
same person who deployed, or that they may return in a flag-draped casket.
And mothers, who must leave their children behind to go to a war
zone far from home, live with daily fear for their own lives because they worry
about the possibility that their children may have to grow up without a mother.
And they worry about the impact their absence will have on little psyches, and
whether that impact will be lasting.
We assure you, both groups are heroes.
And we'd like to wish them, and all the other mothers out there, a
Happy Mother's Day!
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