TODAY – THANKSGIVING 2012 – Time to reflect on anniversaries.

Posted by JOHN EYSTER on November 22, 2012

TODAY – THANKSGIVING 2012 – Time to reflect on anniversaries. I AWOKE TODAY with a profound sense of GRATITUDE knowing that today is THANKSGIVING DAY! I HOPE you too awoke with a profound sense of GRATITUDE! Did YOU? YOUR comment? Having just seen Spielberg’s “LINCOLN” earlier this week, I was ready to be reminded by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s editorial, “A respite from war,” that today is the 149th anniversary of the observance of the THANKSGIVING DAY which President Abraham Lincoln asked WE THE PEOPLE of the US to observe on the 4th Thursday of November 1863 when he issued a presidential proclamation on October 3, 1863. Meaningful special day.
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