Parental Understandings
Published Tuesday, October 19, 2004 by Alessandro Ashanti | E-mail this post
"Hey, Mom. This is Amber. Real, real big emergency. I need you to contact someone. I mean, raise pure hell. We had broken down trucks. No armored vehicles. Get somebody on this. I need you now, Mom. I need you so bad. Just please, please help me. It's urgent. They are holding us against our will. We are now prisoners."
The above quote is from Spc. Amber McClenny, one of the reservists in Iraq. Due to the advent of cellular technology she was able to leave this message on her mother's answering machine. What a fucking nightmare. I can't imagine being getting a call like this from one of my children. I mean, I raise hell if I find out the school lunch room is having "McDonald's day".
You can read more about the story here:
http://www.pacifica.org/programs/dn/041018.html
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