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Sunday, May 10, 2009

Happy Mother’s Day A Review of Susan Galleymore's Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak About War & Terror

Happy Mother’s Day

A Review of Susan Galleymore's Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak About War & Terror

by Ron Jacobs / May 9th, 2009 (1)

Mother’s Day in the US was originally conceived of as a holiday against war and for peace. This was based on a sentiment that supposes mothers know better than anyone the pointlessness of war’s blood and death since it is their children who do the dying. Susan Galleymore’s recently published book Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak About War & Terror takes this premise and moves it to today’s headlines. Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and the United States. Interviews and statements from mothers of soldiers, bombers and children killed by all of the former pepper …
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http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/05/happy-mothers-day-a-review-of-susan-galleymores-long-time-passing-mothers-speak-about-war-terror/

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