Mother's Day: "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother! – AmericanMinute.com-William J. Federer
Listen (text to speech) Download as PDF ... After the Civil War, abolitionist Julia Ward Howe, writer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic, led a Mother's Day for Peace in New York on June 2, 1872, to promote peace, national healing and recon