Parents had a big year in 1908 -- our modern Mother's Day had its start that May in a church in West Virginia. Inspired by that service, and in the shadow of a mining disaster that killed many local dads, the first Father's Day followed fast, two months later and 15 miles away.
After that florescence of filial feeling one century ago, Mother's Day (which had an earlier post-Civil War pacifist moment) zoomed on and became an official national holiday...
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