Mothers Day tomorrow

Just heard a music program related to mothers on NPR.

Poignant.

Especially this weekend.

What must it be like for our mothers to have children there, or about to go, or about to return there?

And I must say it - what about the mothers of the prisoners? What about the mother who gave birth to a child who would end up naked on a floor with a leash around his neck with the other end in the hand of a sassy girl soldier whose President is a conqueror? Classic image of war for all time.

Heads bowed.

Shared tears.

I kept thinking of all the mothers in Iraq, especially Baghdad for some reason, putting their children to bed each night and wondering if THIS was going to be the night. The night the bombing started. Or would it be tomorrow night? Or the next night?

Every time I put my own daughter to bed, it would make me cry just thinking of the terror some other mothers on the other side of the world must have felt each night doing the same thing, kissing their child off to sleep. I have never had to wonder if my beautiful child's sleep would be stopped by the sound and the feel of bombs. And all I did was get lucky enough to be born in the country of the aggressor, instead of the country being attacked.

It's the pictures of children who were killed in this that get me the most. Someone's child.

up their decimated babies out of the sand...wipe the blood and grit off their faces and kiss them one last time? What must it be like to hear reports of Americans calling it collateral damage and justified in the fight for Iraqi Freedom?

I cannot bear sometimes to see those pictures...but I force myself to. And then I pray God's forgiveness and hope that someday those mothers realize that there were Mothers and Fathers here who wept over those little faces...and somehow shared their pain....

ok your post got me. Tears.

Big blustery sigh.

Will we EVER learn????? EVER????

I just could never imagine...and hope that I don't have to. :(

And so many times I fight with freeper types who want to bring up the pictures of the innocent Iraqis that Saddam killed, and yet have no guilt for the thousands we are responsible for killing.

And so as not to take sides, what about Palestinian AND Israeli mothers?

The Palestinian never knowing when the Israeli Army is going to come with tanks and guns into their village; the Israeli never knowing if tomorrow a suicide bomber will climb on her child's bus.

Whatever you think about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict; whatever you think about the situation in Iraq, there are good people caught in the middle on both sides.

There are American mothers proud their children are fighting this war, and American mothers whose children signed up for the National Guard to get money for college, told they'd never go into combat.

There are Iraqi mothers hoping their child doesn't get caught in the cross fire of this horrible situation, and Iraqi mothers glad they don't have to worry about Hussein's henchmen taking their child away

There are Israeli mothers proud of what their child does in the Army, and Palestinian mothers proud her child was a "freedom fighter" when he (she) died blowing up a bus.

And there are mothers who lost their children a thousand other ways, and those who wanted children but couldn't have them.

Get your mom a new President. Save the flowers and send a little cash to Kerry for your mom.

It's a cabal between Hallmark and FTD!!!! :eyes:

Seriously, I feel sorry for a lot of mothers. Particularly the ones who are "proud" of their children going and "defending the country"
:puke:

When they finally figure it out, I will feel sorry for the emptiness in their hearts.