Nanci Olesen is an independent radio producer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the director of MOMbo, a radio resource for moms, on the web at www.mombo.org.

Sharon Basco produced this piece.
"From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own: it says 'Disarm. Disarm.'

That's an excerpt from the document that launched Mother's Day in America. Its origins were not with breakfast in bed or a corsage or a greeting card; it began as a political cry for peace.

Known as "The Mother's Day Proclamation for Peace," it was written in 1870 by Julia Ward Howe, the mother of six . . .

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