It should celebrate the guidance, care and love that mothers offer their children. The nature of that celebration is usually private to each relationship. Some acknowledge it with gifts or a dinner out. Some people prefer quiet time together.
Circumstances force others to communicate by phone, letter or the Internet.
But today, hundreds of thousands of mothers also will travel far from their homes to do something radical. They will march in Washington, D.C., in pursuit of greater control on guns in the United States. Gun control is a fundamental issue for many who believe government has no business interfering with a person's Second Amendment right to bear arms. Others believe equally strongly that gun violence is out of control in our country and stronger measures are needed to curb this menace. Today in Washington, private anxieties and public politics will converge.