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May 11, 2005

"Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.
" --Julia Ward Howe

Mother's Day Proclamation

Mother's Day is not a Hallmark holiday. It was a call to peace by women who lost their sons in the Civil War. Julia Ward Howe rallied support for the first Mother’s Day gathering in Boston in 1870 to proclaim that since men were in the midst of madness and war, women should unite to, "promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, and the great and general interests of peace".