Mother's Day

by Ted Rudow III, MA (Tedr77 [at] aol.com)

Sun, May 11, 2014 12:06PM

Mother's Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother's Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict.

Countries used to go to war just for pride over some incident because they were offended or one king made a bad remark about another king. But in modern years, recent years, they go to war for commercial reasons, they're trade wars. Nearly every one of America's wars were for some kind of trade advantage or money or for territory-which of course were always fought under different excuses, even as far back as the Civil War.

Before every war, there's a long period of mental conditioning and psychological preparation. You never saw how self-righteous nations can get just before a war!

Ted Rudow III, MA

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§Put a baby on every soldier's back.

by anon

Mon, May 12, 2014 8:40AM

If wars are fought for "us", try putting a baby on every soldier's back.

Instead of mothers carrying the burden of minding the home while the soldiers are off at the war, let the soldiers take the home with them on their backs.

And then see how fast the war is ended for "us".

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