Dear All Who Have Been Born of Mothers,
Mother's Day was originally started after the Civil War, as a protest to the carnage of that war, by women who had lost their sons.
The following is the original Mother's Day Proclamation written by Julia Ward Howe in Boston, 1870:
"Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have heart, whether our baptism be that of water or tears!
Say firmly:
'We will not have our great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall 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 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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