when i was a kid i did not know that on "thanksgiving day" workers of USA government were granted vacation "federal holiday" nor did my family celebrate it mark it nor even eat turkey and stuffing that date [ we did eat it on other dates instead] . i did not know the story of the ship called mayflower until much later in life.
as an adult i was told a backwards story... perhaps you heard that bad version too so here is some true data.
1 the choice of the day thursday was suggested by president lincoln.
2 in 1941 the government approved lincolns idea.
3 the truth historicaly is inter-racial co-operation for example 1565 in spanish colony in florida long before the plymouth story which modern newspapers criticise.
one site wrongly claims "they did not eat turkey and corn" while historicaly we know specifically in the year claimed=1621 "Edward Winslow, one of the colony’s leaders, wrote in a December 1621 letter that the colonists had been blessed by a particularly abundant harvest of corn, the native food crop upon which they had come to depend." so they did have corn and were not "fed by natives" but the opposite like in florida the europeans gave food to the natives.
some mention IN DISCUSSING THANKSGIVING DAY how the europeans killed the natives and this connection led to the reply [apparently the writers desire by connecting them] a reply "thanksgiving is racist i will not celebrate" when in fact it is not linked to killing but the opposite to the plentiful corn in 1621 and even before that in 1565 spanish gave food to the natives showing a day and meal of INTER-RACIAL COOPERATION so the negative articles n' comments are unfounded.
i thought the colonists were in trouble and the feathered natives saved them... bringing the europeans turkey and corn which led me to ignorantly ask "what if,... the natives knew what would happen in the following hundred years" would they assist the pale skins? that question is wrong as we see plymouth massachuset 1621 had corn refuting both the neediness as well as the "no corn" article and my mistaken version of suffering europeans who had the opposite much corn as above and inter-racial cooperation in spanish florida as well.
these ideas and the success of colonies which developed into a culture which encourages FREE FAITH as my previous post please see it are the ideas of thanksgiving day.
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