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Posted: 13 years ago
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hi every one
happy fahters day
im buzzy today so i cant writi the message
happy fahters day
not for only once ayear on one day but for alwaya every day
the greatest gift i ever had
come from god
and we call him dad
thank you you have always been there
for us always loved cared
and provided for us
you are an important person in our world
someone we love with all our hearts you are frined oue hero but most imporantly you are our
DADDY
HAPPY FAHTERS DAY ALL OF YOU
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Posted: 13 years ago
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]hi every one
happy fahters day
im buzzy today so i cant writi the message
happy fahters day
not for only once ayear on one day but for alwaya every day
the greatest gift i ever had
come from god
and we call him dad
thank you you have always been there
for us always loved cared
and provided for us
you are an important person in our world
someone we love with all our hearts you are frined oue hero but most imporantly you are our
DADDY
who is fantastic in every way a man wohs always been strong whatever comes his way
dad who sets a find example of what it means to be a father to be proud of the best there can be⭐️


Edited by afzal7861 - 13 years ago
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Posted: 13 years ago
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While it is accepted around the world that the first word that a child utters is 'mother', it is also a universal fact that it is the father towards whom almost every child looks, as his/her hero. He is the person who asks you to smile when you fall down from the bicycle the first time and surely he is the one who asks you not to drive the bike beyond the speed of 60 km/hr when you grow older. In themselves, our father and mother comprise of a whole world for us. And, it was with the aim of honoring the great man that we call dad that the holiday of 'Father's Day' came into being. It provides us with an occasion to say 'Thank You Dad', through various actions and gestures.


Father's Day is the day to make your daddy, and all the other men who have played the father figure in your life - say grandpa, stepfather and even elder brother, feel really special. It is the time to let them know how much you love them and care for them. Father's Day is celebrated on different dates across the world. In many countries across the globe, including USA, UK, India, Singapore, Mexico, Malaysia, Japan, Greece, France, China, and so on, it falls on the third Sunday of June. Then, there are countries like Australia and New Zealand that celebrate it on the first Sunday of September and places like Russia that have a fixed date for its celebration (February 23).

History of the Day
(Source: Wikipedia)

Father's Day is a celebration of fathers inaugurated in the United States in the early twentieth century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting.

After the success obtained by Anna Jarvis with the promotion of Mother's Day in the US, some wanted to create similar holidays for other family members, and Father's Day was the choice most likely to succeed. There were other persons in the US who independently thought of "Father's Day", but the credit for the modern holiday is always given to Sonora Dodd, who was the driving force behind its establishment.

Father's Day was founded in Spokane, Washington at the YMCA in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in Arkansas. Its first celebration was in the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910. Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there. After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day in 1909, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday honoring them. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, the pastors hadn't enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June.

It did not have much success initially. In the 1920s, Dodd stopped promoting the celebration because she was studying in the Art Institute of Chicago, and it faded into relative obscurity, even in Spokane. In the 1930s Dodd returned to Spokane and started promoting the celebration again, raising awareness at a national level. She had the help of those trade groups that would benefit most from the holiday, for example the manufacturers of ties, tobacco pipes, and any traditional present to fathers. Since 1938 she had the help of the Father's Day Council, founded by the New York Associated Men's Wear Retailers to consolidate and systematize the commercial promotion. Americans resisted the holiday during a few decades, perceiving it as just an attempt by merchants to replicate the commercial success of Mother's Day, and newspapers frequently featured cynical and sarcastic attacks and jokes. But the trade groups didn't give up: they kept promoting it and even incorporated the jokes into their adverts, and they eventually succeeded. By the mid 1980s the Father's Council wrote that Father's Day has become a 'Second Christmas' for all the men's gift-oriented industries.


A bill to accord national recognition of the holiday was introduced in Congress in 1913. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak in a Father's Day celebration and wanted to make it official, but Congress resisted, fearing that it would become commercialized. US President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be observed by the nation, but stopped short of issuing a national proclamation. Two earlier attempts to formally recognize the holiday had been defeated by Congress. In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a proposal accusing Congress of ignoring fathers for 40 years while honoring mothers, thus "[singling] out just one of our two parents". In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Six years later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972.

In addition to Father's Day, International Men's Day is celebrated in many countries on November 19 for men and boys who are not fathers.






Edited by anirka - 13 years ago
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Posted: 13 years ago
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What makes a dad
(Author unknown)

God took the strength of a mountain,
The majesty of a tree,
The warmth of a summer sun,
The calm of a quiet sea,
The generous soul of nature,
The comforting arm of night,
The wisdom of the ages,
The power of the eagle's flight,
The joy of a morning in spring,
The faith of a mustard seed,
The patience of eternity,
The depth of a family need,
Then God combined these qualities,
When there was nothing more to add,
He knew His masterpiece was complete,
And so,

He called it ... Dad



Edited by anirka - 13 years ago
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Posted: 13 years ago
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My best friend ...My Dad...
I follow Him like a puppy , when he is around ...
Cry for ages , when he is not ...
Pester him , when I want something ...
Fight with him , When I am bored
Or just call out dad...even though I have nothing to say...
That's My best friend ...My dad ...
I may not be a lil girl anymore ...But I will always be his lil girl ...
My dad , My best friend.
Edited by scorpio10 - 13 years ago
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Posted: 13 years ago
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Thanx for the post afzal!
It is a Happy Father,s Day indeed, albeit belatedly frm my side. But to me it is a blessing i cherish everyday n thank God for the wonderful gift, My Father. Luv you DAD!🤗
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Posted: 13 years ago
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Happy Father's day :)))
Thanks for the thread afzal
And baljit lovely post!
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Posted: 13 years ago
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happy fathers day to all

i read this beautiful line some where

Dad i might find my prince but you will always be my king

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Posted: 13 years ago
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hello every one
thanks for the readng the message
you r a very lucky your dad with you
with out mum and dad life is hell
i lost my dad somehow i wish i could get back him
i love you dad i always remember you in my heart for my life last
my all grant you in jannah paradisa ameen
love u dad
thank you all my readers
and love all🤗
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Posted: 13 years ago
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@ anirika/balli..excellent input...

Happy fathers day every one...
Now, to me a father is that person with whom one cannot associate death with. He is the person one looks up to as long as he lives. A father then is infallible,foul proof and dependable.He provides security and stability.Like a strong fortress he stands. A sturdy rock, that defies destruction...
Regrettably, I lost mine in the last year of my teens, it was sudden and unexpected.With the passage of time I have grown to now celebrate his life rather than mourn his loss, for I have found that although I was lost without him, but really a father is someone that never really leaves you...he lives on...
This song then I dedicate to all the fathers be they around or not... much love xx hammie..
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tlVShzXvZI[/YOUTUBE]

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