Did you know…
The first formal Thanksgiving Days were religious? True, President George Washington declared that the nation, not individuals, give thanks to God for His assistance in winning the Revolution and with the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. A few other early Presidents issued similar declarations, as did a number of early governors of the states in the new United States of America.
It wasn’t until 1863 that Thanksgiving became a national holiday though. President Abraham Lincoln, in the midst of the Civil War, saw fit to institute Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday.
Our current holiday is modeled after one of the early more famous Thanksgivings. The one in Plymouth with the Pilgrims and the Indians. On the menu for that feast was probably deer, lobster, swans and, maybe even, seals. Turkeys might possibly have also been on the menu.
But Thanksgiving isn’t about the food eaten at the gathering, it’s about the people that make up the gathering. It’s about giving thanks for what you have and for another year of plenty, something that many have forgotten.
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