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Posted: Sunday, 13 May 2007 2:07PM
Peace Activists Remember Mother's Day Origins
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 SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- Mother’s Day in the United States started in the 1870s, after social reformer and poet Julia Howe wrote a proclamation promoting peace, motherhood and womanhood.
Local peace activists spoke out against the Iraq war at San Francisco's First Unitarian Universalist Church this Mother’s Day in a return to the holiday’s original meaning. Reverend Greg Stewart of San Francisco's First was among those who condemned the war.
"The only way my boys will ever go to war is over my dead body," he said.
Church members were joined by several conscientious objectors as well as Gold Star Mom Karen Meredith, whose only child was killed in Iraq in 2004. "He promised me he would make it up to me when he returned, but it didn't happen that way," Meredith said.
(RdD)
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