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Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present. Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel prize winner.
For Mother's Day my wife asked that our son Nick, daughter Leigh Ann and I go with her to the Capital Area Food Bank and work a shift sorting food donations. Because she asked, we all went, but no one was very excited about it. As it turns out it was pretty fun and the 3 ½ hour shift went by very quickly. Oh, I forgot to mention that I have a great wife and my kids have a terrific mother.
A history of Mother's Day.
From the National Women's History Project, The story of Mother's Day.
Erma Bombeck's Mothers Day Column
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