In the wake of the Civil War’s devastating toll on human life, women’s peace groups called for a day celebrating American moms and their dreams of a safer future for their families. Written in 1870, Julia Ward Howe’s “Mother’s Day Proclamation” eloquently speaks for many moms in the U.S., Iraq, and around the world today:
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.
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.
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The above came from a Code Pink email.
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