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05-07-2013, 02:01 PM
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In the United States Mother's Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe
(who wrote the words to the Battle hymn of the Republic) as a day dedicated to peace.
Ms. Howe would hold organized Mother's Day meetings in Boston, Mass every year.
In 1907 Anna Jarvis, from Philadelphia, began a campaign to establish a national Mother's Day.
Ms. Jarvis persuaded her mother's church in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mother's Day
on the second anniversary of her mother's death, the 2nd Sunday of May.
By the next year Mother's Day was also celebrated in Philadelphia.
Ms. Jarvis and her supporters began to write to ministers, businessman, and politicians
in their quest to establish a national Mother's Day.
It was successful as by 1911 Mother's Day was celebrated in almost every state.
President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914, made the official announcement proclaiming Mother's Day as a national holiday
that was to be held each year on the 2nd Sunday of May.
He established the day as a time for "public expression of our love and reverence for the mothers of our country."
By then it had become customary to wear white carnations to honor departed mothers and red to honor the living,
a custom that continues to this day.
While many countries of the world celebrate their own Mother's Day at different times throughout the year,
there are some countries such as Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, and Belgium
which also celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May.
In the United States Mother's Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe
(who wrote the words to the Battle hymn of the Republic) as a day dedicated to peace.
Ms. Howe would hold organized Mother's Day meetings in Boston, Mass every year.
In 1907 Anna Jarvis, from Philadelphia, began a campaign to establish a national Mother's Day.
Ms. Jarvis persuaded her mother's church in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mother's Day
on the second anniversary of her mother's death, the 2nd Sunday of May.
By the next year Mother's Day was also celebrated in Philadelphia.
Ms. Jarvis and her supporters began to write to ministers, businessman, and politicians
in their quest to establish a national Mother's Day.
It was successful as by 1911 Mother's Day was celebrated in almost every state.
President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914, made the official announcement proclaiming Mother's Day as a national holiday
that was to be held each year on the 2nd Sunday of May.
He established the day as a time for "public expression of our love and reverence for the mothers of our country."
By then it had become customary to wear white carnations to honor departed mothers and red to honor the living,
a custom that continues to this day.
While many countries of the world celebrate their own Mother's Day at different times throughout the year,
there are some countries such as Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, and Belgium
which also celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May.