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your family all right.
OK, we know these award luncheons are to raise money for charity (the profits from this year’s fete will go to Save the Children’s early childhood education, literacy, physical activity and nutrition, and emergency response programs.)
But for all of the other real outstanding moms — especially single moms — who never got and never will get an award for sacrificing for their kids, let me repeat my annual Mother’s Day honor to all of you for being such wondrous, deserving yet unsung mothers this day.
This big kiss is for you if you had to leave your kids today because you are working at a store selling other people last-minute Mother’s Day gifts, or are waiting tables so other people can take their mothers out for a special meal. This hug’s for you if you’re a single mom who has dried your kids’ tears too many times after their father forgot to pick them up, and manage nonetheless to take them out for a fun day.
This love is for you if you’re a mom who knows that real families don’t fit any conforming mold, that a real family isn’t defined by any set pattern or by any big-mouth pol or self-righteous do-gooder who doesn’t approve of your lifestyle despite your ability as an outstanding mother. You know that a real family is a family whose children feel safe and loved no matter the makeup.
And this raised finger is for all you bloviating politicians who make single moms feel like lesser beings because in your universe only nuclear families are real families. So very Happy Mother’s Day to all of you outstanding moms. You deserve it. Just when you think it doesn’t get lower than bone-spur-suffering/draft-dodging Donald Trump making fun of Republican Sen. John McCain for having been a POW, along come two other Trumpers to belittle the brain-cancer-afflicted true American hero. First a top White House aide “joked” that McCain’s opinion didn’t matter because he’d be dead soon. The White House refused to apologize. Then Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney made fun of McCain on Fox saying that torture “worked on John. That’s why they call him ‘Songbird John.’ ” This pig not only mocked a hero’s captivity, but said he’d betrayed his country – a repulsive lie. Fox News finally broke ties with McInerney – something they should have done when the nutjob general claimed that terrorists flew the Malaysian airliner that disappeared.