Father’s Day A Holiday Built from Love

In 1909, Sonora Dodd, a resident of Spokane, Washington was listening to a Sunday sermon on Mother’s Day and realized that there was no equivalent holiday at which fathers were honored. Ms. Dodd was extremely fond of her father, a Civil War Veteran by the name of William Jackson Smart. Ms. Dodd…

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Major New National Holiday Write-to-Your Father’s Day

Father’s Day, that once a year tribute to Dad, is fraught with confusion. Many offspring pay no more than lip service to it through phone calls or commercial cards.

Because 70% of U.S. prisoners grew up without a father and because poets use few words to get to the heart of things, they en…

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