068 Quote to Ponder

"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." - Juliet Ward Howe, Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870 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. This quote is part of the originalMother's Day Proclamation.