Father's Day

HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO ALL FATHERS and fathers to be (imagined or not, whether you know it or not)

i have been looking in the Internet for what i think is a perfect father image that i could post on our blog. but all i can see where pictures that represent other races or nations and to me, does not represent what i thought of what a father is or should look like. i then went back to our own MEDICUS pictures. it is there that i find what i thought to be, the image of a Filipino father. you can see 2 pictures of what a father is, both of them MEDICUS, enjoying a simple day with his child. you can see in their faces and their children's faces that every minute is very precious and cannot be bought by gold.

Father's Day is a celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting, and to honor and commemorate fathers and forefathers. Father's Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide and typically involves gift-giving to fathers and family-oriented activities.

In the Catholic tradition, Father's Day is celebrated on Saint Joseph's Day, commonly called Feast of Saint Joseph, March 19, though in most countries Father's Day is a secular celebration.
In the United States, the first modern Father's Day celebration was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia or on June, 19th of the same year, in the state of Washington.

Another driving force behind the establishment of the integration of Father's Day was Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd, born in Creston, Washington. William Smart, a Civil War veteran, was widowed when his wife (Mrs. Dodd's mother) died in childbirth with their sixth child. Mr. Smart was left to raise the newborn and his other five children, by himself, on a rural farm in eastern Washington State. It was after Mrs. Dodd became an adult that she realized the strength and selflessness her father had shown in raising his children as a single parent. She promoted and lobbied fro the establishment of a fathers but she was laugh out initially "One group of men conventioneers laughed and said they didn't want a Father's Day," according to an article in The Spokesman-Review. "A national fishing day would be better, they told her." She persuaded the Spokane Ministerial Association and local YMCA to pass a resolution in support of Father's Day, and the first local Father's Day was observed on June 19, 1910,in Spokane, Washington. Mrs. Dodd wanted Father's Day to be celebrated on the first Sunday in June, her father's birthday. However, the Spokane council could not get the resolution through the first reading until the third Sunday in June.

States and organizations began lobbying Congress to declare an annual Father's Day. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson approved of this idea, but it was not until 1924 when President Calvin Coolidge made it a national event to "establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children and to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations." In 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day. The holiday was not officially recognized until 1972, during the presidency of Richard Nixon. The rest of the world follows, so they think.

In recent years, retailers have adapted to the holiday by promoting male-oriented gifts such as electronics, tools and greeting cards. Schools and other children's programs commonly have activities to make Father's Day gifts. And it is really hard to get a reservation to a restaurant on this day.

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(the history taken from wikipedia and inspiration line, i know it is not a proper research source but i like it. this is a rehash of last year but since then i have not seen any change to make me change it.)