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 Father’s Day - From Ba

Mankind has revered fatherhood since earliest times. Anthropological and archeological studies have produced evidence of a 4,000 -year-old “Father’s Day” greeting whereupon a Babylonian youth named Elmesu had chiseled wishes of long life and good health to his father on a clay tablet. Other studies have shown that the ancient Romans honored their dead fathers every February.

Not until many centuries later, until the very early 20th century in the United States, were there any written records of organized electric lift gates displays of affection toward one’s father. Of course, what went on behind closed doors was another matter, but this is not really germane to our topic at hand.

There are several suggested ideas as to the origins of our present Father’s Day. The first was that of a memorial to the several hundred men, most of them fathers, killed in the worst coal mining accident in America, in Monogah, West Virginia, up until that time (1907). A Mrs. Grace Golden Clayton proposed the idea of remembering and honoring remote gates fathers, living and deceased, pushing for the observance to be held on her own father’s birthdays, June 5th. There was not sufficient time to prepare for the church service and it was therefore pushed back to July 19, 1908, the third Sunday of the month.

Mrs. Clayton may have been influenced by the inception of Mother’s Day in nearby Grafton, West Virginia, using Miss Anna Jarvis’ inspiration about honoring all mothers, living or deceased.

A third theory suggests that Father’s Day was the brainchild of Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd, of Spokane, Washington. Sonora was the eldest of six children who were raised solely by their father after his wife died in childbirth. She felt he had been so giving of himself that she wanted to do something on a grand scale in his honor. Sonora approached the Spokane Ministerial Association and the Spokane chapter of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) for support in making her dream a realization. Public support was immediate, giving her idea national validation. Political figure William Jennings Bryan was vocal in his support, as was the family electronic gates Woodrow Wilson in 1916. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge proposed Father’s Day should be a national holiday and in 1966, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) proclaimed it to be a national observance to be held on the third Sunday of each June. In 1972, President Richard Nixon granted permanent holiday status to Father’s Day.

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Mother’s Dan and Father’s Day share another link to one another. Both display red or white flowers. If your mother is still alive, give her a red carnation remote gates if she has passed on, place a white carnation on her grave. Along the same lines, red roses are for living fathers while white roses represent a father who is deceased.