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[Leathermonger]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, have a safe and peaceful holiday with your families and let's not forget those serving our country tomorrow when we give thanks!

[Red Badger]

Amen!

[old salt]

 

[Watauga]

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING 

[oneshot 1]

Happy Thankgiving to all Be Safe 

oneshot

[DEADDAWG]

Wishing all a Happy and Bountiful Thanksgiving.

Please remember our troops stationed around the world with a prayer for their safe and swift return.

[Honovi Mahala]

Giving thanks this day for good friends and family.

[Tim Burns]

Wishing a Happy Thanksgiving!  and Gods Blessings on all who visit these boards...  Hoping that all of You keep Our  Troops around the world in Your prayers....   

[redhawk]

I hope everyone has a good Thanksgiving!  We all have much to be thankful for.  I am especially thankful for all my friends on this site. And as others have said let's remmember our men and women in the arm forces.

[Rev]

[Tim Burns]

Thanksgiving Day ~ George Washington Style ~ 1789
Below is George Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Day Proclamation. The next time someone tells you that politicians shouldn't talk about religion, or the "Almighty God", just show them this:
 
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 favour; 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 PUBLICK THANKSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and 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 TWENTY-SIXTH 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 in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed;-- for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to establish Constitutions of government for our sasety 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 favours which He has 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 publick 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 kindness unto us); and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase 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, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.

(signed) G. Washington


Found this proclamation on the University of Florida Libraries' website:

http://grove.ufl.edu/~leo/washington.html

[Red Badger]

got a chill reading it...

[mlisa]

i have no problem with the posting, just the statement! i guess some of us get called out when we break the rules of this website, or what are perceived to be the rules, others can do or say what they want, no matter what the rules. now we will see just how sharp those tacks are, or maybe how dull! yes i am calling on the moderators to read, and examine the rules, and this post!

mlisa

[Micanopy]

These are words from an historical document. Exactly what is that you wish the mods to address?

[mlisa]

the statement is a discussion of religion, and or religious beliefs, and some may find it offensive! the statement, not the document. i, for one, find the statement offensive!!!!