A Mother’s Day Tribute
You might not be able to tell now, but Mother’s Day did not begin with greeting cards and chocolate boxes: it began with a cry for peace. It was 1872, and Julia Ward Howe — wife, mother, poet, early abolitionist and suffragette — found herself appalled at the state of the world. The Civil War had left countless families mourning in the U.S., and the Franco-Prussian War had just claimed thousands of lives in Europe. She believed war was unnecessary, savage, and contradicted all that mothers stood for; she believed it was ruining lives: of those killed and maimed, of those mourning, and of those who had to fight.
Julia Ward Howe proposed that one day a year, we step back and act on behalf of the values represented by motherhood: values that “make for peace.”
She called it Mother’s Peace Day.
Donate here and honor Mothers everywhere! Thank you to those who honored Mothers in 2010 with their donations to WAND Education Fund:
Betty S. Rhodes Latner
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Mildred Siegel
Martha Urban
Carlotta R Tyler
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Louise Regan
Rev. Laura M Spangler
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Christy Buchanan
Renee Hinson
Catherine Hendron
Leslie Jackson
Gail Michael
Lisa Cesta
Anonymous
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Nancy Gillis
LoErna Simpson
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Jeanne Raymond
Robert Brookover
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Margaret Brookover
Ruth Glasgow
David Whitford
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Genevieve Whitford
Kathy Crandall Robinson
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The Women of Strike for Peace &
Carol Urner
Jan Putnam
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Jennifer Putnam
Sabrina Putnam
James Corrigan
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Mom
Diane Aronson
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Rachel Aronson
Elizabeth DeGrenier
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Aime DeGrenier
Chris Clarke
Elinor Hunt
Kathy Schmidt
Clare Baldwin
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Elizabeth Baldwin
June Rusten
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Fern Katz
Jane Perrin
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Ethel Bush
Stella Schutter
Ethelyn Schutter
Fannie Perrin
Mimi Perrin Nickels
Bonnie Perrin
Allison Perrin
Cherine Perrin
Toria Perrin
Jessa Perrin
Rebecca Perrin
Gwendolyn Kimball
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Michelle Obama
Judith King
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Noel Congdon
Chelsea Kesselheim
Sharon Cound
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Robin M Kershner
Chela Sipes
Cindy Cound
Mary Becton
Betty H Thompson
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Lucy Price
Patricia Gripp
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Kerry Curl
Sarah McDuffie
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Bobbie Paul
Jean Marzilli
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Janet Marzilli
April Marzilli
Laura Marzilli
Susan Shaer
Corinne Dunster
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Virginia Ewald
Jean Dunster
Sara Allen
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Edie Allen
Mary Cathcart
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Mary Moore Cathcart
Meg Mayo
Susan Cundiff
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Pat Gripp
Kit Frisinger
Sandra Moberg Walls
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Verna Olive Moberg
Karen Jacob
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Mother
Arlene Jacob
Doloris Cogan
Miriam Redsecker
Alice Lynch
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Dorothy Hyman
Jumedia Buchner
Julia Veasey
Vanessa Hyman
Charleta Tavares
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Charlotte Bell
Edith Allen
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Karen Jacob
Charleta Tavares
Sayre Sheldon
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Phoebe Sheldon
Cary Sheldon
Alexandra Sheldon
Fern Katz
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Harriet Cooper Alpern
Cynthia Warner
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Laura Nieto
Yvonne Logan
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Laurie Post
Emilie Marlinghaus
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Mrs. Violet Hanks
Mrs. Evelyn Sefried
Kelli Hunnicut
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Nancy Hunnicut
J. Southwell
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Kathy Southwell
Nina Dodge Abrams
in memory of
Claire Colman
Sarah Cearly
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Joyce Cearly
Margaret Rosenthal
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The Women of WAND
Amelia Dallenbach
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Ann G Possehl
Dolores Cogan
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Margaret Jenson
Karen Speros
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Sen. Barbara Boxer
Elaine Morse
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Molly Tan Hayden
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