Father's Day is celebrated the
3rd Sunday in June.
Other countries celebrate throughout the year.
The idea for creating a day for
children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Washington.
A woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd thought of the idea
for Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in
1909. Mrs. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William
Smart. He was a Civil War veteran, and was widowed when his wife
(Mrs. Dodd's mother) died in childbirth with their sixth child.
Sonora wanted her father to know how special he was to her. It
was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was,
in the eyes of his daughter, a courageous, selfless, and loving
man. Sonora's 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. At about the same time in various towns and
cities across American other people were beginning to celebrate
a "Father's Day."
In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge
supported the idea of a national
Father's Day. Finally in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed
a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June
as Father's Day.
Roses are the Father's Day flowers:
red to be worn for a living father and white if the father has
died.
Father's Day is a day of commemoration and celebration of Dad.
It is a day to not only honor your father, but all men who have
acted as a father figure - whether as grandfathers, stepfathers,
uncles, "big brothers or adult male friends."
It is a time of burnt toast and
breakfast in bed, family gatherings, crayon scribbled "I
Love You"s and, of course not to forget, that lovely new
tie!
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