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FATHER'S DAY

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Father's Day will be celebrated around the world on Sunday, June 17, 2007. Modem Father's Day is uniquely American in its history. Together with Mother's Day, it is both a public and personal expression of the gratitude that is due to all caring parents. The proposal for a Father's Day and Mother's Day for time set aside for children to honor their parents.
The United States is one of the few countries in the world that has an official day on which fathers are honored by their children. On the third Sunday in June, fathers all across the United States are given presents, treated to dinner or otherwise made to feel special.
The origin of Father's Day is not clear. Some say that it began with a church service in West Virginia in 1908. Others say the first Father's Day ceremony was held in Vancouver, Washington. Regardless of when the first true Father's Day occurred, the strongest promoter of the holiday was Sonora Louise Smart Dodd of Washington, first had the idea of a "father's day." She thought of the idea for Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909. She wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart. He was a Civil War veteran, was widowed when his wife died while giving birth to their sixth child. He was left to raise the newborn and his other five children by himself on a rural farm in eastern Washington State.
After she became an adult realized the selflessness her father had shown in raising his children as a single parent. It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a courageous, selfless, and loving man. Her father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father's Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910.
President Calvin Coolidge, in 1924, supported the idea of a national Father's Day. The grievous insult continued until 1966 when President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring that the third Sunday of June 1966 would be recognized as Father's Day. President Richard Nixon signed the law which finally made it permanent in 1972 Father's Day as a permanent national holiday to be observed on the third Sunday of June every year.
America should be richly applauded for pioneering a day on which families recognize fathers. And, if Father's Day took longer to receive the public acknowledgement it deserved, perhaps this can be a reminder of how easy it is, even for those with good intentions, to overlook the importance of fatherhood. Children made special desserts, or visited their fathers if they lived apart. In early times, wearing flowers was a traditional way of celebrating Father's Day the red rose to honor a father still living, while a white flower honored a deceased father.

QUOTES ABOUT FATHER'S
"None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a Father who has not his equal in this world so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and do not be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal."
"Victoria, Queen of England"
"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
"William Shakespeare"
There is no doubt that mothers play an all important leading role in the lives of their children. They are the obvious heroes of child rearing. My belief is that fathers play just as important a role as mothers. Fathers are the solid foundation of our lives. They are the shore we swim to when our arms and legs feel increasingly tired. They are the strength we rely on as we take our first tentative steps into the world. Fathers can be tender, tough, fragile or powerful but they are probably the most uncomplicated love we will ever know.
For daughters, father is the first man they adore the first man whose eyes shine with overwhelming amazement when they look at us. He is the first man to fall in love with us. For sons, father is the symbol they first aspire to emulate their mirror image of what will be and possibly the only man they will ever feel comfortable loving.
Father is the first man who held us, as a loving parent, with a lump in his throat so huge, only the joy of that love could erase the overwhelming pain of choking on unexpected raw emotion. He is the one person on the planet with whom we can treat our need to brag and carry on about our kid's accomplishments and heartaches.

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