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My mom died 20 years ago in a car accident, so I went to an 8am Breast Cancer Walk in downtown Chicago. Due to the 20-30mph winds and heavy rain, that skirt wouldn’t have helped much. There were at least ten thousand people braving the 52 degree temps who were walking for moms and others who have died of cancer. I was walking with my daughter-in-law who’s mom was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and is just finishing her chemo and will follow it with radiation.
Wouldn’t it have been nice to take the ten thousand dollars we spend every minute on the Iraq War and apply just a little of our totally wasted trillions and instead could have applied it to medical research and humanitarian causes along with all the other critical needs to improve suffering people’s lives? Moms everywhere are proud of how you keep all of us continually aware of the true cost of war.
