Happy Thanksgiving!

[Andre Bolkonsky]

" 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. "

 

Signed, 

Abraham Lincoln

1863

[George Washington]

Happy Thanksgiving. 

[william1993]

LET US FEAST

[Albert Sidney Johnston]

19 minutes ago, william1993 said:

LET US FEAST

If you need me, I'll be feasting on the joy of crushing another Yankee army

 

[Captain Jean-Luc Picard]

Between the turkeys (NSFW) and the irony of the story, i've never understood thanksgiving. And what's that about a presidential pardon for a turkey? What did that turkey do to need a presidential pardon? And people get to vote which one lives and which one dies?  That's just too weird for me.

[william1993]

It's mostly just an excuse to eat like a goddamn pig.