EP 36 Fathers Day Flashback

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This week I decided to replay Episode 3 a fathers Special I recorded last year. I hope you enjoy This Flashback Podcast. I will be back in two weeks with another missing persons podcast.
Historians say the first Father’s Day card was created nearly 4000 years ago by a young man that carved it in a piece of clay, assuming a tablet of sorts. He carved his special message wishing his father good health and long life. The first Father’s Day memorial service was held on July 5, 1908, to honor the 361 men that were killed in a Tragic mine disaster in Fairmont West Virgina December of 1907. Out of these 361 men, 250 of them were fathers. It was a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd that is credited for Father’s Day becoming what it is today.

According to a story on education.com, Sonora Dodd, the daughter of a widowed Civil war veteran came up with the idea while listening to a Mother’s Day Sermon at her church in 1909. She was inspired to create a special day to honor her father as well as others. She wanted the first Father’s Day to be June 5th which was her father’s birthday, however, the city and community leaders said they needed more time to prepare so it was moved to June 19, 1910. The idea caught on, by 1924 President Coolidge supported a petition for a national Father’s Day and a national Father’s Day committee was formed in New York city in 1926. President Johnson in 1966 designated the 3rd Sunday in June as Father’s Day but it wasn’t until 1972 that President Nixon established Father’s Day as a national holiday.

Sonora is also credited with making the rose the official flower of Father’s Day. Wearing a red rose signified your father was still living, wearing a white rose was to honor your father that had passed away. She was said to have brought roses and gifts to any father in the community that was unable to make it to the church services where roses were given out to honor the fathers of the church.

Some fun Facts about Father’s Day, Because of Sonora Dodd, Washington was the first state to celebrate Father’s Day. Sonora was from Spokane, Washington.

Across the pond in Europe Father's Day has it roots in the Middle Ages to honor Saint Joseph on March 19th Saint Joseph was the foster father of Jesus. It eventually turned into a day to honor the institution of fatherhood in general.

For the French its all about lighters. Still being related to the celebration of Saint Joseph, this tradition had started to fade in the years after World War II. to reignite the consumer interest in spending money on dad, a French lighter company called Flaminaire created a new Father’s Day in 1949 to help sell their products and the ad campaign was successful and has been observed in France ever since.

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