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Andrew Cline has been editorial page editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader since October of 2001. His writing has appeared in more than 100 newspapers and magazines, including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and National Review.On Thanksgiving: America's holiday
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Reader commentsIn the early '90s, New England ministers were complaining that Thanksgiving was turning too secular. The 1690s. A mere 70 years had turned this religious day of thanks into a feast day that kept people cooking, eating and socializing instead of praying. Oh, what the ministers would think of Thanksgiving Day football.
In the 1840s, some Southern states resisted calls from New Hampshire's Sarah Josepha Hale and others to adopt this New England tradition as their own. Abraham Lincoln, seeking a unifying message for a country torn apart by war, proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday on Oct. 3, 1863 -- exactly three months after Gettysburg.
Today, Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving with food and cheer, friends and family. Some will lay out splendid feasts. Some will have modest meals bought with whatever they could save. Some will eat fast food while rushing to or from work. Some will eat at a shelter or not at all. Some will enter mess halls in the sands of Iraq or hills of Afghanistan and think of being with their families.
Thanksgiving has meant different things to Americans of different regions and eras. It has been celebrated in a multitude of ways by citizens of widely divergent classes and backgrounds. Even today we still argue about religion and football, politics and history. But through the centuries, one constant has remained. On this day, we all are united in a single thought, held at some point during these 24 hours: We are grateful to be Americans.
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YOUR COMMENTS
Just turning into another shopping day .........president's day, memorial day, fourth of july, labor day, columbus day, ......oh new years and no doubt next one will be civil rights day.
Testing and fishing the waters next year will no doubt see many more retailers open and who knows .............Christmas day and Easter are next.
Never enough to satisfy our capitalistic greed with shiny beads and trinkets. I for one have called it quits, will only buy when i want to buy and not a moment sooner. that new television may not be bought for another 2-3 years till the old one breaks down. Ditto the fridge, range, dishwahser and laundry. Add to that everything else.
- Jack Alex, Manchester
The original Thanksgiving feast was instituted at Plimouth Plantation (actual/original name of Plymouth Colony) to celebrate the bounty which resulted when the Pilgrims switched from communism in which individuals' products and services were channeled into a Commonwealth from which individuals and families took what products and services they needed but which system did not create incentives for hard work or new ideas to capitalism wherein individuals and families were given their own plots of land and told to keep for themselves and use howsoever they wanted the products and services they produced and which system created incentives for hard work and new ideas and was the basis for the American capitalistic economic system which has given Americans as well as the people of the world new products and services which have benefitted almost everyone.
The original T-Day feast was not given by the Pilgrims to celebrate being saved by the American indians.
Thus, communism was tried here in the US in one of the original Colonies, and because it did not generate incentives for hard work and new ideas communism failed and had to be replaced by capitalism which generated incentives for hard work and new ideas and thereby succeeded.
The lessons of the successes of the incentives for hard work and new ideas inherent in capitalism in contrast to the failures of no incentives inherent in communism should be taught to, and learned by, all Americans.
Happy Thanksgiving!
- Bob Kroepel, New Durham, NH
Well said Thank you.
- Linda, Derry
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