A Mother’s Day for Peace

A Mother’s Day for Peace

It’s Mother’s Day, again. That time for showering your mom with cards and flowers, and chocolates and gifts… right?  Wrong. Or at least, that was NOT the intention of the original holiday, nor the goal for the women who dreamed of it. Peace. Unity. Solidarity was. The year was 1870. Just after the Civil War, in the United States. More than half a million people had died. And one woman decided to stand for peace and an end to war.  Her name was J…

(Rewari News) Rewari. A colourful cultural programme was organised by the children of Pre Nursery and Nursery classes at Raj International School situated on Konsivas Road on the occasion of Mother's Day. The programme was inaugurated by General Secretary Jayshree Saini and parents by garlanding Maa Saraswati and lighting the lamp. The stage was managed by teachers Meenu and Pooja. At the beginning of the programme, teacher Meenu welcomed all th…

A Mother’s Day story

A son, one of thirteen, honors his mother Cynthia Culp Allen Special to the Valley News Thirteen might seem like an unlucky number of children. But for the Graham family of Dermott, Arkansas, it was the perfect number. Charles Graham, the fifth child in the sibling line-up, left for college and lived in our Valley […]

President Trump Issues Mother's Day Proclamation

President Donald Trump on Saturday issued a Mother’s Day proclamation. The act continues a tradition begun in 1914 when President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. It then became a national holiday, though one that did not provide a day off of work. Subsequent presidents continued to acknowledge the special day, encouraging Americans to observe it with expressions of gratitude and love. Mo…