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June 21, 2015 CECISFM want to say thank you our Father the Late Bobbie Bowens Sr. and John Welchel of American Cast Iron Pipe (retired) and the Father's who support us each day Enjoy !!!
What some might not know is that the celebration has a religious history born out of tragedy
Grace Golden Clayton, a resident of Fairmont, West Virginia, was the first person on record to petition for Father’s Day. In December 1907, a mine explosion in a nearby town killed more than 360 men, many of them fathers. The tragedy left 1,000 children fatherless, which troubled Clayton.
Father’s Day has become a day of gift-giving and relaxation for many, but that is far from the original intention behind the day,
" Father’s Day is to acknowledge the importance of close bonds, loving relationships and unconditional love that endures all the joys and pains, ups and downs of human relationships,"
President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national holiday in 1924, but it wasn’t until 1972, when President Richard Nixon made it a federal holiday, that it became permanent.
