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Happy Mother's Day

It's a good time to remember why this holiday was created. Julia Ward Howe (who also wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic) first articulated it in the original Mother's Day Proclamation issued in 1870 after the close of the Civil War. The words still resonate in these troubled times.

"Arise then, women of this day! ... We women of one country will be too tender to those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs. From the bosom of a 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 out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.'

"In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace.

A United Nations of Mothers. Why not?