Happy Thanksgiving

[RJNorton]

Perhaps a little early to start a Thanksgiving thread, but Happy Thanksgiving to all!! Joe Di Cola sent this and asked me to post:

[BettyO]

OMG!!!!

Well.....here's MY contribution -

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL OF OUR FRIENDS !!!!

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[L Verge]

Betty, Looks like she burned the turkey!

You are a very good friend, but may I add that Lew was the turkey that got burned when he showed up at her house...

[BettyO]

HA! Agreed..

Another....

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[L Verge]

Mrs. Surratt should have pawned her silver and china to pay some of her husband's debts...

I assume those are glasses of water that she's placing on the table, not white wine. Remember that Lewis was underage.

[Gene C]

Valerian wine?

[BettyO]

(11-12-2012 06:04 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Mrs. Surratt should have pawned her silver and china to pay some of her husband's debts...

I assume those are glasses of water that she's placing on the table, not white wine. Remember that Lewis was underage.

Maybe that's why the detectives were at her house on the 17th - the night she and Lew were arrested.... Giving liquor to minors!! HA!!

[LincolnMan]

Yes, happy Thanksgiving to everyone. May we take a moment to simply count our blessings.

[Peter Taltavul]

(11-13-2012 10:36 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Yes, happy Thanksgiving to everyone. May we take a moment to simply count our blessings.

To my new friends here. A Happy Thanksgiving to all.

[Gene C]

(11-13-2012 09:01 PM)Peter Taltavul Wrote:  

(11-13-2012 10:36 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Yes, happy Thanksgiving to everyone. May we take a moment to simply count our blessings.

To my new friends here. A Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Fido and I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving

[J. Beckert]

Happy Thanksgiving to all! If you're travelling - be safe.

[GARY POPOLO]

Happy Thanksgiving to all my new friends! Be safe and enjoy your time with friends and family. If time permits check out the new Lincoln film. I know I will see it this weekend. Have heard nothing but good things!

[LincolnMan]

I'm seeing the Lincoln movie Friday-had to purchase tickets in advance due to complete sell-outs.

[BettyO]

Happy, Happy Thanksgiving to all of our friends here!!

Friends are one of our greatest blessings !!!!

[Laurie Verge]

From Abraham Lincoln:

By the President of the United States of America.

A Proclamation.

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln

William H. Seward,

courtesy of the Snellers' wonderful website "Abraham Lincoln Online."

AND TO ALL MY NEWFOUND AND OLD FRIENDS FROM THIS FORUM, MAY YOU HAVE A PEACEFUL AND MEANINGFUL HOLIDAY WEEKEND.