Posted on 02/22/2006 9:10:35 AM PST by Rakkasan1
SAUK CENTRE, MINN. - It's time for the roll call of military mothers in this central Minnesota meeting room: Becky Eibensteiner, her daughter back from Iraq. Sue Winges, her son headed to Iraq. Iris Krebsbach, one son home from Bosnia but another sent to Iraq. All counted, 24 mothers. Some weep. The room falls silent.
"Every meeting brings tears to my eyes," said Cathy Von Wahlde, a member of the Blue Star Mothers of Sauk Centre whose daughter Jodi returned from Iraq last fall. "When I look at all the other moms sitting there concerned and worried about their sons getting prepared to go over, I know how they feel."
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God Bless Our Brave Troops and Their Families.
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