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From: Michele <>
Subject: Remembering the mother you left behind
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:25:50 -0700 (PDT)


It's been pretty quiet on the list. Here's a question for all the war brides.

Today I was talking to my mother about her first few months in the states. I wonder what was the hardest time for her. She had great in-laws and they treated her well, but shortly after arriving in Detroit she had to deal with a very special holiday, Mother's Day. She told me that was when she cried the most. Everyone around her was spending time with their mother. She was with her new mother-in-law, but nothing could take the place of her own mother. How is missed her that special day. June comed the next month and she was reminded again how much she missed her father.

How did you handle that first Mother's Day?

My grandmother arrived to Detroit 3 yrs. later. After that my mother and grandmother never parted until the death on my beloved grandmother in 1977.

My mother didn't say much it me, when it was my turn to leave her behind. I married and moved only across a few states to New York. There was no ocean between us, just Canada, about a 7 hr. drive. Thank God for phones. Now my daughter has is far away in St. Louis and I'm in Omaha. Thank God for the Internet.

Hope y'all have a nice fall weekend,



Michèle, (Belgium War Baby - USS Brazil)
American War Bride Experience
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