SINGAPORE - Father's Day was originally inspired by an American Civil War veteran who raised six children single-handedly after their mother died in childbirth.
His daughter Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington, in the United States, came up with the idea in 1909 after sitting through a Mother's Day church sermon.
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