Happy Thanksgiving!

[Steve]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

[Rob Wick]

I second Steve! Hope everyone has a great day!

Best
Rob

[David Lockmiller]

Happy Thanksgiving, All!

[RJNorton]

Enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday everyone!

[Anita]

Happy Thanksgiving to all. Just read the Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1863 that was drafted by Seward. Here's a portion of it. Sound familiar?

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, tranquility and Union.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/prima...anksgiving

[David Lockmiller]

(11-28-2024 06:23 PM)Anita Wrote:  https://www.battlefields.org/learn/prima...anksgiving

Much said of importance and relevance to the proclamation, with so few words, by President Lincoln:

"In the midst of a civil war of unequalled 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."