A Day of Thanksgiving

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About this day of Thanksgiving...

In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that Thanksgiving would be the next-to-last Thursday of November rather than the last. With the country still in the midst of The Great Depression, Roosevelt thought this would give merchants a longer period to sell goods before Christmas. Increasing profits and spending during this period, Roosevelt hoped, would aid bringing the country out of the Depression. At the time, it was considered inappropriate to advertise goods for Christmas until after Thanksgiving. However, Roosevelt's declaration was not mandatory; twenty-three states went along with this recommendation, and 22 did not. Other states, like Texas, could not decide and took both weeks as government holidays. Roosevelt persisted in 1940 to celebrate his "Franksgiving," as it was termed. The U.S. Congress in 1941 split the difference and established that the Thanksgiving would occur annually on the fourth Thursday of November, which was sometimes the last Thursday and sometimes the next to last. On November 26 that year President Roosevelt signed this bill into U.S. law.

Since 1947, or possibly earlier, the National Turkey Federation has presented the President of the United States with one live turkey and two dressed turkeys. The live turkey is pardoned and lives out the rest of its days on a peaceful farm. While it is commonly held that this tradition began with Harry Truman in 1947, the Truman Library has been unable to find any evidence for this. Still others claim that that the tradition dates back to Abraham Lincoln pardoning his son's pet turkey.[2] Both stories have been quoted in more recent presidential speeches.

In more recent years, two turkeys have been pardoned, in case the original turkey becomes unavailable for presidential pardoning. Since 2003 the public has been invited to vote for the two turkeys' names. In 2006, they were named Flyer and Fryer. In 2005, they were named Marshmallow and Yam (who went on to live at Disneyland); 2004's turkeys were named Biscuit and Gravy; in 2003, Stars and Stripes.

Since 1970, a group of Native Americans and others have held a controversial National Day of Mourning protest on Thanksgiving at Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

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[NeponsetValleyGirl]

Don't let it go to pot. Keep your family close, teach them respect. You may not be able to control the enviorment around you, but you can control what happens in your own home. It's a lot of work but keep your morals and values and FAITH. Peace!

[crochetmom5]

I love the 'feeling' of this video. Peaceful and grateful for the freedoms we enjoy in this country.

I am thankful for my 5 good and healthy children and grandbabies. For our warm home and clothes. Food to eat. Thankful for a caring Heavenly Father who loves us.

And most of all this year I am thankful that my husband who broke his neck in an accident last weekend, is not worse off, and is able to move and walk and talk and is still here with us.

[JeanLouisBarrault]

Newsflash - Turkey was not eaten traditionally to the degree this video makes it out to be. People had chicken, duck etc. Actually rarely had turkey. Turkey was not synonymous with Thanksgiving in those days. How the whole country got brainwashed into thinking it was a Thanksgiving staple is beyond me. And I'm sitting here with people in their 70's and 80's who wanted me to post this.

[2010ladywisdom]

The feel is definitely late forties or early fifties...but it does bring back memories of a more innocent time...may we all return to give God thanks every day before we really don't have anything left to be thankful for.

[tomservo56954]

@charityGSHS Would you have bothered if the Tea Party didn't tell you to do so?

[PoetryETrain]

Thank you, Happy Thanks giving everyone...

[charityGSHS]

Those snot nosed kids at OWS need to stop and think about all the things we have to be thankful for.

[vern123able]

loved it...

[yalecheerleder]

a treasure > brings tears

[TheCliffPhilShow]

Give thanks for the U.S.A.

[michaux6000]

thankful for life and for all the great people on youtube life is great.

[Sifjada]

@cognates1 It may be directly related to the political happenings of the time, but most, if not all, the points of thanks said in this video are still very applicable today, and I think that many people now have lost sight of these very things.