Making peace with moms (Sad Mother's Day Story and Origin of Day)

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/417697p-352757c.html

Today, a florist is expected to make a delivery to a Queens mom that was arranged by a devoted and loving son one day before he was killed in Iraq.

Sgt. Jose Gomez made the arrangement on Thursday, April 27 during a telephone call to his fiancée. She did as he asked.

"I ordered them that Thursday, as soon as he told me," the fiancée, Marie Canario, recalls.

The following day, Gomez was killed when his Humvee was struck by an improvised explosive device. He was laid to rest on Wednesday at St. Michael's Cemetery, where the mother, Maria, and the fiancée were the last two mourners to set red roses upon his coffin. Both broke down, one sobbing for her lost son, the other for a family that would never be.

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There was still that Mother's Day order with the florist that the son had made the day before his death. The delivery takes on all the more meaning when you consider that the New Yorker who instituted the first Mother's Day did so 136 years ago hoping the women of the world might band together to end the perpetual carnage called war.


Sgt. Jose Gomez


The day before he was killed in Iraq, Sgt. Jose Gomez ordered Mother's Day flowers for his Queens mom, Maria Gomez.

Mother's day--the Gold Star Moms for peace of the nineteenth century.

a devoted mamas boy (not a demeaning term), and a credit to America. How sad, not only for his mom and fiancee, but for America. He probably would have done something good for society.
Now to get on some watch list or another, fuck you bush. End this insane nonsense now!

And to Maria Gomez, please know that mothers everywhere are holding you in their thoughts and prayers. Jose was such a handsome young man and was obviously very thoughtful, as well. I'm sure he is smiling down on you all today and every day.