Fathers Built America and Still Do

Fathers Built America and Still Do

Today, We Need Father’s Day More Than Ever Each third Sunday in the June of every year, Americans pause to recognize the men who help shape our lives: our fathers. We hand out gifts and cards. We fire up the grill. We say thank you. But Father’s Day didn’t start as a marketing ploy to get people to buy grills, tools, and other gifts, or greeting cards. The observance was born out of reverence. In 1910, a young woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, move…