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Originally Posted by Sarah_W View Post
Thanksgiving: The Truth


A proclamation by President George Washington and a congressional resolution established the first national Thanksgiving Day on November 26, 1789. The reason for the holiday was to give "thanks" for the new Constitution. "...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..."


I was extremely thankful until I got to the last 6 words.
Thanks for reading thru this...............Now I know how the story ended......No Way was I going to read.

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