Fri, May 9, 2008 The California Report Magazine Military Moms Listen to segment (RealMedia stream) This Mother's Day weekend, millions of moms will be getting breakfast in bed, bouquets of flowers and maybe hand made cards from their kids. Even moms serving in Iraq will get special treatment -- they're getting a Spa Day. Today there are some 12,000 women deployed in Iraq. We talk with former Air Force Captain Patricia Matthews of Santa Clara, who remembers how hard it was being apart from her young daughter when she was stationed in Iraq. « back to week of May 9, 2008 Email this page to a friend *Your name:  *Your email address:  *Friend's email address:  Additional Message:  (optional)  * Indicates required field. Names and email addresses are not collected by KQED.org. For more information, please see our privacy policy.

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