Happy Mother's Day

[Richard]

I want to wish every mother a very happy Mother's Day. :)

[William]

Took Mom and Dad out for Dinner on Friday night.. :D

[Mercy Now]

Just a reminder  least we forget.......

The Original Anti-War Mother's Day

By Gary G. Kohls, MD
May 6, 2010
Editor’s Note: For most Americans, Mother’s Day means ordering some flowers or buying a card to express a sentimental appreciation for one’s mother, but that wasn’t what the first Mother’s Day had in mind.

The original Mother’s Day Proclamation from poet and suffragette Julia Ward Howe was a protest against the evils of war, a call to mothers to act to prevent future wars that would exact horrific tolls on their sons and the sons of others, as Gary G. Kohls reminds us:

In 1870 – 140 years ago – the disastrous human consequences of the American Civil War were becoming increasingly apparent, especially to the mothers of sons and the wives of husbands who had watched as these men proudly and patriotically marched off to “glorious” war a decade earlier.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/050610a.html

[Richard]

Interesting. :)