--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Brooks, Fred Emerson collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 21 number: 8 published: 1918-06 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Brooks, Fred Emerson, "The Boy Who Fights for His Mother," *Improvement Era* 21, no. 8 (June 1918): 719.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2108unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2108unse start_page: 719 end_page: 719 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2108unse publication_year: 1918 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The Boy Who Fights for His Mother The Boy who Fights for his Mother On the lips of each flower is a kiss and a prayer From the mothers of men to their boys everywhere; 'Tis the love of all mothers to each valiant son Who has sworn to turn back the red scourge of the Hun. Though the blossom may wither, the love still endures In the land of the free every mother is yours. Man honors the brave as he honors no other And God loves the boy who will fight for his mother. [Written by Fred Emerson Brooks, for the Y. M. C. A., in honor of Mother's Day at Camp Kearny, and dedicated to the men of the "Sunshine Division."]