[Dialogue] Mothers Day The real one!

[KroegerD at aol.com]

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Dick Kroeger
 
In a message dated 5/7/2007 4:47:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
aulangca at stny.rr.com writes:

Much appreciated, Dick.  Very helpful now, as I write  one of some local 
letters to be carried to ordinary people in Iran, by a  woman from here travelling 
with a group with the Fellowship of  Reconciliation. They are leaving May 15, 
making contacts for  peace. I'll use a few lines from Howe's  proclamation.
Janice

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Subject: [Dialogue] Mothers Day The  real one!


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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Janice  Ulangca
3413 Stratford Drive
Vestal, NY   13850
607-797-4595
_aulangca at stny.rr.com_ (mailto:aulangca at stny.rr.com) 
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