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Not just Cards and Flowers: The 1st ‘Mother’s Day for Peace’ was Held in New York in 1872


:  1870 Mother’s Day Proclamation : Arise then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts… Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have taught them of charity, mercy and patience… We women of one country will be too tender of those of another to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.From the bosom of the devastated earth, a voice goes up with our own.  It says, ‘“Disarm, disarm!”’… Read here