Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day! Sunday, June 18, 2000 To hear some music, click on the pup.

My dad use to sing and play guitar in a country 'n western band, so I decided to put a little C&W song on here. Wow! Can you believe it's June and it's almost Father's Day already?! This year is surely flying by. You had better get to shopping and picking out that special gift for Dad if you haven't already.

School is out and Father's Day will also mark the Summer Solstice.

Say, did you know that Father's Day was not proclaimed an official U.S. holiday until the year 1971? I didn't! It is always celebrated on the third Sunday of June. Father's Day is a day for people to express their appreciation for their fathers or father figures in their lives through
actions and/or words.

Here are some interesting facts of history of how Father's Day came to be.

*l908 - In June, Mrs. John Bruce Todd founds Father's Day in honor of her father. She celebrated it in Spokane, Washington.

*1912 - William Jennings Bryan urges Americans to observe Father's Day to pay respect to all of the country's fathers.

*1914 - President Woodrow Wilson admonishes the nation to remember and honor its dads.

*1926 - President Calvin Coolidge urges the observance of the unofficial holiday, Father's Day, citing the example of American fathers to all the world.

*1931 - The Father's Day Council is formed to accelerate the participation of the entire country in the celebration of Father's Day, from which time the event grows by popular demand into a national "unofficial holiday".

*1935 - The first National Father's Day Luncheon takes place in New York.

*1942 - the first Father of the Year Award is presented in absentia to General Douglas MacArthur.

*1945 - There is new incentive to the growth of Father's Day as millions of GIs return to civilian life and become fathers for the first time.

*1971 - Congress, by a joint resolution, enacts Father's Day as a national holiday to be observed the third Sunday of every June.

*1972 - President Richard Nixon issues the first official national Father's Day Proclamation, which will be taken up by the state governors.

*1975 - The first Regional Father of the Year Awards are presented in Los Angeles.

*1976 - Regional Father of the Year Awards are inaugurated in Dallas, Chicago and Atlanta.

*1992 - Regional Father of the Year Awards are made in San Diego for the first time.

*1994 - Regional Father of the Year Awards are presented in San Francisco, south Florida and Portland, Oregon.

~Source: National Father's Day Committee~

I think one of the hardest gifts to pick out is a
Father's Day gift. Maybe that's because I'm a gal. It seems so much easier to pick out something for Mom for Mother's Day. It seems that Dad already has enough ties or cologne or the like.

This is a picture of me and my Dad when I was about four years old. OOOh, look at those dirty knees!

Here are Sweetcakes and Jellybean with a message for their daddy and for all fathers on Father's Day.

"Hi! Woo-Woof-We'd be in the dog house if we didn't wish a Happy Father's Day to our hoomin daddy, so Happy Father's Day, Daddy! . . . and the same to all the other daddys of the world!

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