As Mother's Day turns 100 this year, it's known mostly as a time for brunches, gifts, cards, and general outpourings of love and appreciation.
But the holiday has more somber roots: It was founded for mourning women to remember fallen soldiers and work for peace. And when Mother's Day went commercial, its greatest champion, Anna Jarvis (photo above), gave everything to fight it, dying penniless and broken in a sanitarium.
(via Neatorama)
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