[Dialogue] Mothers Day The real one!

[KroegerD at aol.com]

Many people do not that Mother's Day was not inspired by Hallmark but by  
Julia Ward Howe in 1870 as a plea for peace.  Here is the entire  proclamation in 
her own words; it is worth reading every Mother's  Day:

Mother's Day Proclamation

Arise then ... women of  this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of  water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have questions answered by  irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with  carnage,
For caresses and applause.
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."

>From the voice 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."
Blood does not wipe our dishonor,
Nor violence  indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the  anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of  home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as  women, to bewail and commemorate the dead,
Let them solemnly take counsel  with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in  peace....



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