The History of Father's Day 2017 goes back to 1910 in Spokane, Washington, where 27-year-old Sonora Dodd proposed it as an approach to respect the man (a common war veteran William Jackson Smart) who raised her and her five kin alone after her mother passed on in labor. Dodd was at a congregation pondering how appreciative she was for her dad when she had the thought for Father's Day, whi...
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