Father S Day Was Originally Created To Honor A Veteran Single Dad
A year after the first official Mother’s Day, 27-year-old Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington, declared fathers deserved a day too: She wanted a day to honor her own dad, William Jackson Smart, who was a Civil War veteran and a twice-widowed single father to 14 children. America has celebrated both parents with consecutive holidays ever since, and there’s a sweet reason the two are always celebrated five weeks apart....