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« on: May 08, 2010, 10:09:16 pm »

The History of Mother's Day (another version)

Thanks for 'qualifying' that, GA, by putting 'another version' in parenthesis.  And actually you're non-linked post deals with the 'history' of the government's declaration of said holiday.  This is also mentioned in the article that I linked to:

... Then, on June 2, 1872, in New York City, Julia Ward Howe held the first “Mother’s Day” as an anti-war observance, a practice Howe continued in Boston for the next decade before it died out.

The modern Mother’s Day, with its apolitical message, emerged in the early Twentieth Century, with Howe’s original intent largely erased from the mainstream consciousness. Howe’s vision of an antiwar mother’s call to action was watered-down into an annual expression of sentimentality...

1872 vs. 1908...  Perhaps I should've 'qualified' the title of this thread, 'The Original Anti-War Mother's Day,' to clear up any confusion.  BTW, that is the title of the article that I linked to,...just in case, well...you know...someone didn't actually read it...
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