Military moms, protestors face unpatriotic label

ICeleste Zappala’s voice is calm and rational. She talks in a sincere tone, with no hint of inner anger coming through her voice, but rather sadness. She seems to pull her words from somewhere deep inside, from an inner heartache, a place where she keeps her pain. Zappala isn’t the mother-of-all protestors, she isn’t the save-the-world mom, she is simply a mother who had lost her son to the war in Iraq. “Losing a child is hard, it ages you,” Zappala said. [More]