This One Goes Out To the Ones I Love

Mothers of the Resistance

I didn’t cry until I got a text from Ruth.

I have been in training to not feel, but I when I saw a note from her with the simple words - “It begins!” - so did my tears… each drop releasing the pain of a mother on the frontlines of the hardest war.

I made a promise to my children on November 9, 2016, that we would get that criminal bastard. It is our faili…