bajajudy
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For today
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!!!
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Ateo
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Yes. Happy Thanksgiving to the Nomads out there. If you're traveling, slow down and enjoy the ride. No drinking and driving please, or get a
designated driver.  
I will be driving from Oceanside to Riverside, then down to the border. 2 separate dinners -- one with my gringo family, then one with my Mexican
family.
I plan on 8000 calories. First, a surf at O'side Harbor! Later!
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woody with a view
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we all have SOMETHING to be thankful for! my list is fairly long so i won't bore you, but here's to hoping everyone has a great day of thanks and
caries that sentiment forward.
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vandenberg
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Have a good one, everyone!!
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David K
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Ditto to the above!
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CaboMagic
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To you, Jim and all of yours too Judy!
btw for anyone interested in how Thanksgiving Day came to be we have President Abraham Lincoln to 'thank' ..
This is the proclamation which set the precedent for America's national day of Thanksgiving. During his administration, President Lincoln issued many
orders similar to this. For example, on November 28, 1861, he ordered government departments closed for a local day of thanksgiving.
Sarah Josepha Hale, a 74-year-old magazine editor, wrote a letter to Lincoln on September 28, 1863, urging him to have the "day of our annual
Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival." She explained, "You may have observed that, for some years past, there has been an increasing
interest felt in our land to have the Thanksgiving held on the same day, in all the States; it now needs National recognition and authoritive
fixation, only, to become permanently, an American custom and institution."
Prior to this, each state scheduled its own Thanksgiving holiday at different times, mainly in New England and other Northern states. President
Lincoln responded to Mrs. Hale's request immediately, unlike several of his predecessors, who ignored her petitions altogether. In her letter to
Lincoln she mentioned that she had been advocating a national thanksgiving date for 15 years as the editor of Godey's Lady's Book. George Washington
was the first president to proclaim a day of thanksgiving, issuing his request on October 3, 1789, exactly 74 years before Lincoln's.
The document below sets apart the last Thursday of November "as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise." According to an April 1, 1864, letter from John
Nicolay, one of President Lincoln's secretaries, this document was written by Secretary of State William Seward, and the original was in his
handwriting. On October 3, 1863, fellow Cabinet member Gideon Welles recorded in his diary how he complimented Seward on his work. A year later the
manuscript was sold to benefit Union troops.
Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863
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 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 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 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 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 United States the Eighty-eighth.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
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