[Martin Tell]

Good one.

And as a good Southerner, I have to remember that the modern US Thanksgiving was first proclaimed by Abe Lincoln in thanksgiving for killing a bunch of Confederates at Missionary Ridge. Thus it is both a Puritan and Yankee holiday.

Nevertheless, I love it anyway!

Happy Turkey Day everyone!

[Polybius]

And why do we only celebrate the Puritans in Plymouth and not the settlers of Jamestown, Virginia that arrived in America first?

[sionnsar]

And as a good Southerner, I have to remember that the modern US Thanksgiving was first proclaimed by Abe Lincoln in thanksgiving for killing a bunch of Confederates at Missionary Ridge.

Ack! I did not know that. And my grandfather had a house (my father grew up) on Missionary Ridge!