Mother’s Day Revisited

As every good daughter and son remembered their mother on May 10, it's good to recall that determined American women are responsible for both national holidays honoring parents---Mother's Day from a woman in the East; Father's Day from a woman in the West. We got Mother's Day first, an idea that festered since the Civil War by Julia Ward Howe—author of the beloved “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” She envisioned a Mothers Day for Peace that would unite women to protest against the cruelties o