Thanksgiving

It is hard to find the true story of Thanksgiving these days. We didn't create the holiday to thank the Indians, but God. The Pilgrims were not grave robbers, racists, bigots, or socialists, they were very strong and brave settlers who crossed a huge ocean in a leaky ship for the opportunity to worship God and to live in peace. They were constantly hungry, cold, and in very real danger of being killed by the local Indian tribes. (study up on the Massacre of 1622 and the Drapers Meadow Massacre from my home state for starters) However, they persevered and give us, almost 400 years later, hope and gratefulness for our country.

Read this great story "Grandpa" told around the dinner table, including,"The first seed had been planted for the American Revolution. People were free to practice their religions as they saw fit and were free to keep the fruits of their labor. This had never happened before in the history of mankind."

This was my favorite comment:

"Our Pilgrim ancestors dealt with all the hardships it took to settle this land. They had to deal with cold, hunger and death while the average lefty gets upset if Starbucks runs out of cream. So now that this country provides us with what we need and all the comforts the world has to offer, this puke has the nerve to criticize those that made the sacrifices."

Another example of a wacko reinterpreting Thanksgiving, a professor in Indian lit in California and mom of a kindergartner "wrote the letter upon hearing of a four-decade district tradition, where kindergartners at Condit and Mountain View elementary schools take annual turns dressing up and visiting the other school for a Thanksgiving feast. This year, the Mountain View children would have dressed as Native Americans and walked to Condit, whose students would have dressed as Pilgrims.
Raheja... said she met with teachers and administrators in hopes that the district could hold a public forum to discuss alternatives that celebrate thankfulness without "dehumanizing" her daughter's ancestry.
"There is nothing to be served by dressing up as a racist stereotype," she said."