Happy Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day! I hope all of you moms get to either see, or hear from, your loved one tomorrow for Mother’ Day.
Fast Fact: More personal telephone calls are made on Mother’s Day in the USA than on any other day in any other country.
A Mother’s Day Deployed
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BAGHDAD (Army News Service, May 9, 2007) - “I’m going to explain to him that I was out defending our country, and taking care of my family and doing what’s right,” Spc. Jessica Bailey said.
To hear the young mother of one talk about her son, 2-year-old Caleb, her love for him is obvious. The unit supply specialist with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, is currently serving at Forward Operating Base Falcon in southern Baghdad and will miss spending her second Mother’s Day with Caleb.
While it is tough being away, she said she finds ways to keep in touch.
“I call him almost every day,” she said. “I talk to him so he can at least hear my voice. He looks around for me when he’s on the phone with me.”
Even for those mothers who have been away from their children for long periods of time, it doesn’t get any easier. Capt. Trisha Meyer, the personnel officer for the Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th IBCT, 1st Inf. Div., answered her nation’s call to serve in Korea for six months when her son, Crispin, was three months old.
Now, she is serving at FOB Falcon while Crispin, who is now two, waits with his sister, Savanna, who recently turned one, on Mom to come home.
“He kind of gets the whole ‘Momma’s across the ocean saving other little boys and girls,’” Capt. Meyer said. “He thinks it’s cool.”
Happy Mother’s Day to you Claire.