Kimberley
12th May 2013, 15:55
I learn new things every day...This article is new information for me about the History of Mother's Day...
Happy Mother's Day! :grouphug:
'From the Bosom of the Devastated Earth,' a History of Mother's Day for Peace
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-albracht/peace-mothers-day_b_3226405.html
"Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or of tears!...
We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.
From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own.
It says "Disarm, Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
~Julia Ward Howe, 1870
From her Mother's Day Proclamation for Peace
Happy Mother's Day! :grouphug:
'From the Bosom of the Devastated Earth,' a History of Mother's Day for Peace
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-albracht/peace-mothers-day_b_3226405.html
"Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or of tears!...
We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.
From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own.
It says "Disarm, Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
~Julia Ward Howe, 1870
From her Mother's Day Proclamation for Peace