Posted on 05/07/2009 4:25:28 PM PDT by SandRat
CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE BASRA, Iraq, May 7, 2009 While deployed mothers will miss out on their traditional Mothers Day celebrations May 10, some are making the best of the situation.
The Hastings, Minn., native is spending a year away from her 14-year-old stepson, Alex, and her 7-year-old daughter, BriAnna. But for her, Mothers Day is about more than just her children. Every year, the Amundsons have a tradition for Mothers Day. What I like to do is get all the mothers together and we all go to brunch on Mothers Day with all our children and my husbands sister, my sister anybody we can get to go, she said. The family started this tradition because they were going to multiple houses for a short time, Amundson explained. Were all family, whether were blood or not, she said. So I said, Lets all get together. That way, you dont have to go five different places, kind of like Thanksgiving or Christmas. Its much nicer and easier to have everyone together. This Mothers Day, while Amundsons family is having brunch, the deployed soldier will acknowledge other mothers here. I want to make sure to recognize other mothers this Mothers Day, she said. Being a mother isnt about yourself its about everybody else. Amundson credited being a mother with helping her with her skills as an NCO. I think being a mother really helps with being in charge, she said. It helps you balance positive and negative discipline. Amundson said she mentors and guides her soldiers as she would her children, and that some of the soldiers even remind her of Alex. Whether being a motherly figure to her soldiers or her children, Amundson said, she sees Mothers Day as an important holiday. [It] is special to me because I have the privilege to be a mother, she said. I remember the day I got home with my daughter. I thought there was nothing better than being a mother, and I still think that. (Army Sgt. Debralee P. Crankshaw serves in Multinational Division South.) |
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Well, ill be the skunk at the garden party. Im sure they are nice people individually. But this is a sick policy, and a sign of our national depravity. A mother should be living where here children are, no excuses.
Also, someday, the “right” to serve in combat will become the requirement of all our daughters to do so.
Ditto for Obama’s “National Service”.
Going into my bunker now, fire away.
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