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The original Mothers' Day was an anti-war protest.
Julia Ward Howe, inspired by Ann Reeves Jarvis' efforts in Appalachia, issued her Mothers' Day proclamation in 1870. Alas, my computer will not let me link.
But if you go to www. zinnedproject.org or www.dsausa.org, you can read the proclamation and the history. With the genocidal putin-launched war in Ukraine, seems a good time to remember.