My 20-year-old brother is a corporal with the U.S. Army based in Georgia. We've known for a while that he was going to ship out to Iraq sometime in May (for his second tour); they just didn't tell anyone exactly what date it was going to be.
Well, my mother and stepmother got a great Mother's Day gift. Saturday night my brother made the rounds via telephone to tell us all that he was shipping out on Sunday.
Yes, that's right. Mother's Day.
The Army felt the need to ship out troops on Mother's Day.
Now, maybe I'm blowing this out of proportion but I don't really think so. This is hard enough on families as it is, having our sons/daughters/brothers/sisters shipped overseas and wondering if we're ever going to see them again. They have to send them out on Mother's Day?
That's like a slap in the face to all the mothers watching their children go overseas. There are mothers whose kids left on Mother's Day who will not see them again; it's inevitable. We all pray that it won't be our loved ones but there will be kids who shipped out on Sunday who don't make it home. And that is what those mothers will have as their Mother's Day gift.
This isn't to say that those whose family members shipped out on any other day don't have it just as hard ... it's just the symbolism of the thing.
They had to ship them out on Mother's Day?
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