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Old 11-26-2008, 10:37 AM
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A bit early, but I'm working thru it.....
I hope everyone has a great holiday.
Stay safe....
Relax, enjoy the time with your family, and tell them you love them!
Peace,
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Old 11-26-2008, 10:42 AM
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I posted this on OT.
Happy Thanksgiving! One of my favorite holidays!
I posted today since many will not be working later today and will be gone until Monday. My youngest daughter is primary cook; today she is making pecan pies, tomorrow we're having pork roast stuffed with prosciutto and Fontina cheese wrapped with pancetta.


Proclamation of Thanksgiving
Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863
This is the proclamation which set the precedent for America's national day of Thanksgiving. During his administration, President Lincoln issued many orders like this. For example, on November 28, 1861, he ordered government departments closed for a local day of thanksgiving.

Sarah Josepha Hale, a prominent magazine editor, wrote a letter to Lincoln on 28, 1863, urging him to have the "day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival." She wrote, "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." 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 that he complimented Seward on his work. A year later the manuscript was sold to benefit Union troops.


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 unequaled 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 consiousness 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 Unites States the Eighty-eighth.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln

William H. Seward,
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Old 11-26-2008, 04:37 PM
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Back at you.....Happy (early) Thanksgiving to everybody too! BTW Rick: You must have had a lot of time today to have typed out that proclamation by old Abe! Hope things are going good for you in the buckeye state.

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Originally Posted by Ninespub
Back at you.....Happy (early) Thanksgiving to everybody too! BTW Rick: You must have had a lot of time today to have typed out that proclamation by old Abe! Hope things are going good for you in the buckeye state.

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Hope it's a happy and safe one for everyone.
Old 11-26-2008, 11:24 PM
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My favorite holiday so I want to join in and wish all of you guys a fine Thanksgiving holiday. I'm feeling so warm and cozy about all this I think I'll have another J&B, so here's to ya!
Old 11-27-2008, 05:24 AM
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
Stay safe, and eat alot.
3:20 a.m. and about to pull the turkey off the smoker, damn Im tired.
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Happy Thanksgiving!!!

NEW TURKEY RECIPE

Your dinner will be the talk of the TOWN!!
You should try this!
Sure to bring smiles from your guests!
Here is a new way to prepare your Thanksgiving Turkey.
1. Cut out aluminum foil in desired shapes.
2. Arrange the turkey in the roasting pan, position the foil carefully. (see attached picture for details)
3. Roast according to your own recipe and serve.
4. Watch your guests' faces... scroll down to view
5. TAKE PICTURE AND POST HERE!!!
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Nicole, you're up WAAAAYYY to early!..... And as soon as my wife is up she gets to see this
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Happy Thanksgiving boys! It's my favorite Holiday.
Old 11-27-2008, 09:52 AM
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Happy Thanksgiving to all. The best US holiday!
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Happy Thanksgiving to 928ers near & far!!
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Originally Posted by MGW-Fla
Happy Thanksgiving to 928ers near & far!!
I echo that Hooter...er..I mean sentiment. Happy Thanksgiving ya knuckleheads!



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