Fathers Day 2009
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Vinegar Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Sunny: La PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Tulait: Very bright HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Unsavory is the soup made of little chickens.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Men trust their ears less than their eyes.” (Herodocuts)
TODAY IS FATHER’S DAY – Sonora Dodd first proposed the idea of a “father’s day” to honor her father, William Smart, a Civil War veteran, who was widowed when his wife died giving birth to their 6th child. After Sonora became an adult and married, she sought to honor her father for the selflessness he had shown in raising his 6 children as a single parent on a rural farm in eastern Washington state. She held the first Father’s Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910, her father William Smart’s birthday. President Calvin Coolidge, in 1924, supported the idea of a national Father’s Day. In 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father’s Day. President Richard Nixon signed the law making it permanent in 1972.
June 21st, 1998: The “Big Mo,” the USS Missouri, the famed World War II battleship noted most, perhaps, for being the deck on which Japan’s formal surrender was signed by the Japanese government, comes to Hawaii to rest. While it passes Kalaupapa, the peninsula on which the Hanson’s Disease (leprosy) sufferers reside, the ship stops, and dips its flag in salute.
