Home | Slide Shows

You need to upgrade your Flash Player to properly use this content.

Get Flash

Start Update | Cancel

Audio Slide Show: Two mothers connect

Published Wednesday, May 28, 2008

The Minnesota National Guard brought Lamyaa Kareem and her mother, Shanna Hassan, from Iraq to Minnesota for surgery to correct the teen's severely curved spine. The mother and daughter stayed with a host family, Johanna and Duncan Clyborne. In the the nine weeks that the two mothers lived under the same roof, they learned to navigate each other's culture to find common bonds.