Athletic & Aware

Athletic & Aware

SFH #56: Thanks, Mom

You deserve recognition and honor 🏆

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Brian Hain
May 09, 2021
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In 1914 President Woodrow Wilson signed a measure establishing the second Sunday in May as an official holiday in America to celebrate our mothers. The idea was born out of Anne Jarvis's efforts to recognize and honor the sacrifices mothers make for their children, following her mother’s death in 1905. Anne was determined to make Mother’s Day a holiday …

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