The origins of Mother's Day in the United States can be traced back to the middle part of

the 1800s, perhaps as part of an anti-war movement led by Julia Ward Howe.

A way to remind people that this cruel war being waged was taking away children from their

mothers and not only did the war create destruction and death, it left thousands of mothers in

anguish mourning the loss of a child. Others looked to Anna Jarvis, whose own mother had

worked tirelessly during the Civil War to aid soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

One Jarvis, known as Mother Jarvis, once taught a Sunday school lesson asking that a day be set aside

for the work and efforts of women since so many days recognized only the efforts of men.

This lesson left a mark on her young daughter who started a letter writing campaign, where she

asked powerful men to intercede and help create a day to honor the work and the sacrifice of mothers.

By the early part of the 20th century, mothers Sunday services were held on the second Sunday in May at churches in West Virginia.

It was in 1912 that the governor of West Virginia proclaimed a mother's day and Pennsylvania's governor followed suit the next year.

A resolution went before Congress and President Woodrow Wilson would sign it into law, a day to honor mothers for their nurturing and care,

not just of their own family and children, but of the community and that their works, their kindness,

should be recognized and celebrated. In 1982, not 70 years after Mother's Day became a recognized holiday in the United States,

a great tragedy befell two mothers. Struck two families with a horror they would never forget.

It was on Mother's Day, 1982 that two teenage boys were murdered.

It wasn't enough that they were killed. Their deaths were horrific, exceptionally brutal.

The boys fought for their lives. They tried to escape the fire that engulfed the home they were trapped in.

They tried to get away, to get away from the heat and the smoke and the flames that licked under the

doorframe and seared their skin. But there was no escape, and these boys would not be saved.

Come with me to springtime, 1982, when David Cole and Timothy Fowler are locked inside of a burning house,

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