Tag: Thanksgiving
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Thank George Washington for Thanksgiving.
It wasn’t the pilgrims that gave us our modern understanding of Thanksgiving. Nor was it Lincoln’s Thanksgiving declaration during the Civil War. It was our first president, George Washington, who proclaimed, from New York City on October 3, 1789 our first Thanksgiving – a day set aside to thank God for the blessings of the…
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Happy Thanksgiving from Abraham Lincoln
On this Thanksgiving, it is, perhaps, appropriate to go back to Abraham Lincoln’s words from his Thankgiving Proclamation to give us all some perspective. For Lincoln, Thanksgiving was about acknowledging the mercies of God in the midst of the great civil war the country was embroiled in. And here, in 2016, we may not be…
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America Got This One Right
America has its faults – as does every country run by human beings. But the collective they got it right when they established Thanksgiving as a national holiday. Even as retailers push each year to pervert the intent and reach of the holiday, there is something extremely satisfying about setting aside a day a year…
Author Mark W Sasse 