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BlackCommentator.com: Quote to Ponder:  "Our sons shall not be taken from us..." - Juliet Ward Howe, Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870
   
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Mother's Day was originally started after the Civil War, as a protest to the carnage of that war, by women who had lost their sons. This quote is part of the original Mother's Day Proclamation.
 
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May 5, 2011 - Issue 425
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