1602 Mothers don't have Sons today

Damn You George Bush.














Damn You To Hell.

it was only 1595, not 1602.

You forgot a few dozen moms who are missing daughters, also, in that number. And children missing their Mommies.

I hope he roasts in purgatory.

daughters too.

either never be mothers themselves or whose children are orphaned of their mothers.

Damn Hitler to hell.

Man's inhumanity to man never ceases to amaze me.

FUGWB

RL

as a shell of the person they were due to atrocities they've seen or experienced. That goes for physical and mental problems that many will endure for the rest of their lives.
May they rest in peace, and may this country wake the hell up!

that Mother's Day was originally started as an antiwar protest.

"Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts,
whether our baptism be that of water or of fears!

Say firmly: "We will not have great questions decided by
irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking
with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be
taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach
them of charity, mercy and patience.

We women of one country will be too tender of those of another
country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs. From
the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own.
It says "Disarm, Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance
of justice."

Blood does not wipe our dishonor nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons
of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a
great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women,
to bewail and commemorate the dead.

Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the
means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each
bearing after their own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
but of God.

In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a
general congress of women without limit of nationality may be
appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at
the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the
alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement
of international questions, the great and general interests of
peace."

Julia Ward Howe
Boston
1870

http://www.peace.ca/mothersdayproclamation.htm

moms to get out of the house and do volunteer work in civics, a civic activism day. Of course, about the only story that survived this one is Anna Jarvis' daughter (aka Anna Jarvis) getting her minister to dedicate a sermon to her mother and then all moms, and then came the legislation.

so glad I read this thread, and its great that your pastor shared it in this day of churches being used to promote hate and bigotry.

But wait a minute - What about the Runaway Bride? Michael Jackson trial? Yet another bride for Ben Affleck? Where are your priorities? God help us, in Corporate America. Where have you gone, Walter Cronkite, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you?

Perfect commentary on the times we live in. I'll credit you and S&G.

PLEASE???

I love it.

Why this had to be on premium-pay cable and not network news is beyond comprehension.

Not one. Not a single funeral has that fucknut Shrub*Bush attended. I honestly don't know why the Murkin public puts up w/ such an asshole.

family. We killed "innocents" in Iraq over NOTHING ~ which I find even more horrible, frankly.

as we do apparently, that why we can kill a hundred thousand of them and it seems very few people give a shit.

If we stay as long as Saddam did our murder rate will make him look like a fucking hippie

Willing to bet that he hasn't lost one minute of sleep over those he sent to die FOR NO GOOD REASON AT ALL! :grr:

Rest their souls. Those poor mothers. My heart goes out to each and every one of them. And, these are only the deaths. What about those who were injured so badly they will never be the same again?

How does Goerge Bush sleep at night?

TC

pharmaceuticals

Who says he sleeps at night? He could be chasing white lines, who would know?

my heart cries for them :cry: god damn you bushler!

May God bless and comfort each and every mother who has lost her son or daughter as a result of the needless war in Iraq.

My heart goes out to each and every one of them, and I pray that joy will come in the morning for them. May they have the peace that passes all understanding.

And may we, as a country, NEVER again allow a President to take us to war, based on a lie.

Largest proportion of female casualties of any war we've fought so far in our history. Compare that number to the 8 or so American women who died in Vietnam.

I had no idea that many women had been killed in Iraq and that we had only lost 8 in Vietnam. I know there are a lot more women on the front lines now but were only up to year two in Iraq. What a waste.

:kick:

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