Photo Credit — Gardner’s photographic sketchbook of the war / Gettysburg’s “Harvest of death”

Do This to Celebrate Mother’s Day

Stop war

Here’s a radical notion: give someone you love — even your Mom — flowers and candy and breakfast in bed some random day during the year when it’s not expected. It will mean a whole lot more to the recipient than the usual crap that gets trotted out every second Sunday in May.

Now, let’s consider the real meaning of Mother’s Day. In 1870, following the nightmare of…