Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving. In spite of it all, there are a number of things to be happy about this year. For one we can quote Will Rogers, if the name isn't familiar to you, you are younger than you think. Anyhow, he said that we should be thankful that we aren't getting all the government we are paying for.

My thought was to write something about Thanksgiving which would be memorable prose, memorable due to its eloquence and profundity and not its length, but in the interest of Thanksgiving will keep it short.

I want to thank God for what He has so generously given us. We have it mixed up when we say God bless America, because He already has ten thousand fold. We have the blessing of a country which is abundant in natural resources, minerals, timber, water, coal, petroleum, natural gas, futile ground, material things beyond the imagination.

He gave us the ability to become the greatest country which ever existed, making the glories of Rome and Greece, in their day, pale before what our country has accomplished. He bestowed knowledge, understanding, and moral values which, in a few hundred years, built a wilderness into a power which, by its industrial might, twice armed a world to fight tyranny and destroy plans for enslavement.

By His might and in His name we have freed millions of people from oppression, protected countries too weak to defend themselves, helped the oppressed in times of peace when disaster struck, and asked nothing in return.

We stood proud as our soldiers, sailors, and airmen answered the call to duty from Concord and Bunker Hill to Iraq and Afghanistan. We lived the fights of Lake Erie, Gettysburg, Little Round Top, the Little Big Horn, Mexico, the Marne, Bataan, Iwo Jima, the daylight raids, Normandy, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf and Near East. Our soldiers died to preserve freedom and expected nothing in return.

We stopped the concentration camps of Adolph Hitler, the brutality of Josef Stalin. We rebuilt a destroyed Europe and Japan. We freed the satellite countries of the Soviet Union and asked nothing in return.

What do I have to be thankful for this Thanksgiving? That I was a part of this country when it stood for right, liberty, freedom, and responsibility to its citizens. I'm thankful that I have a God who loves and protects me and who will continue to do so regardless of what man will do to destroy the bounty and blessings He so lovingly bestowed on us.

I am thankful for the knowledge that God and Jesus will protect me and remain with me through the troubled days which may come to my country and family.

God bless and keep all of you, not only during this Thanksgiving Day, but for ever and a day.

Happy Thanksgiving.