Happy Thanksgiving

[joeyuk]

I just wanted to take the opportunity to wish you all a happy Thanksgiving. My wife, kids and I will be splitting our holiday, as always, between my family and my wifes. Life is grand having everyone sooooo close.

Having time and money to collect makes us more fortunate then alot of people. I know I have too many things in my life to be thankful for to list here. I am also thankful to Chuck and everyone else at this site for keeping this place fun. No whare else do I see the kinds discusion we have here on a subject we all enjoy.

Enjoy the hloiday.
Joe

[coppercoins]

I reflect those sentiments and pass them along to everyone here...please be safe, don't eat too much, and have a great time!

[Robert]

Likewise.

I think we all have a lot to be thankful for.


Here is Abraham Lincoln's 1863 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 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. 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 had 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 consciousness 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 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.

Abraham Lincoln






The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

[Bob P]

I would also like to pass on my best wishes for a great Thanksgiving. Please keep in mind all of our troops who can not be with family this year. We can all give thanks that they are keeping this year safe for the rest of us.

[JRocco]

I would also like to wish everyone a Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving. Life is so special and we all have so much to be thankful for. We were all dealt a full hand.

[ksteelheader]

Happy Thanksgiving from me and my family!

Ken