The day that DaimlerChrysler announced the $7.4 billion sale of the Chrysler Group to private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management is one that Allan Nahajewski, senior manager, Chrysler Group internal and electronic communications, won't ever forget.

And it has nothing to do with the successful internal communications effort to more than 80,000 employees he and his colleagues executed. His reasons for never forgetting are far more personal than they are professional.

"It was a Mother's Day I won't forget because it ...