11.   He remembered my mother as a gentle woman, and he was sorry to learn that she, like my father, was dead.

12.   He remembers his mother taking ice cream money away from him and giving it to charities.

13.   He remembers mothers screaming and bodies buried under rubble.

14.   He still remembers his mother telling him that he had to share whatever he had.

15.   I especially remember the mothers who baby-sat for other mothers who drove cheerleaders to cheerleading practice.

16.   I do remember my mother using a two-color blue-and-red version back then so she could do double crossword puzzles.

17.   I remembered my mother telling me how my father never used his first two initials in Vietnam because they were V.C.

18.   I remember my mother going to a department store and getting one of those free makeovers.

19.   Igaya remembered his mother cutting her hair so she might look like a man when American soldiers arrived.

20.   In following years, she encouraged friends to remember their mothers as well.