On this true American holiday, I would like to wish all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving. Please take the time to reflect on what a great nation we have and how fortunate we are to live in the greatest country on Earth. Also, let me suggest that you take the time also to call a family member or friend you haven’t seen in a while and wish them well.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
Back at you, Bruce.
All the best to you and yours, Bruce.
Much good food and snoozing to you and yours!
We all have a lot to be thankful for, not least the servicemen/women who don’t get a holiday today because they’re standing guard, protecting our freedoms. Please remember to include them in your prayers.
regardless of what we think politically we are all Americans lets not try and forget that……..Happy Thanksgiving!!!…. (yes that includes liberals too)
Happy Turkey Day! Yay!
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor — and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be — That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks — for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation — for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the tranquility [sic], union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed — for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted — for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions — to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually — to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed — to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn [sic] kindness onto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord — To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease [sic] of science among them and us — and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New York
the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.
George Washington
P.S.
Don’t show that to the ACLU.
Happy Thanksgiving Weekend, Bruce.
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving day, and continue to have a great weekend!