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Outstanding! Following a tradition established in Jamestowne, VA at the Berkeley Plantation -- BEFORE those upstarts in Plymouth ever left England! And, of course:

America’s First Thanksgiving Was in Florida — Seriously. It Was!

COMMENTARY: More than 50 years before the Puritans landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Spanish Catholics gave thanks to God with a Mass and meal in St. Augustine.

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http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/americas-first-thanksgiving-was-in-florida-seriously.-it-was

Thanks for Gen. Washington’s proclamation, putting the official stamp of approval on this custom.

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On behalf of my Mayflower Ancestors, I will quibble. Spanish Catholics probably did have a feast in North America 50 years before the Pilgrims; on that we can agree.

But if we are talking about America, the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, the country we know and love and will Make Great Again, then I’m with George on this one.

These United States evolved from that first chartered colony in Plymouth, founded on the principal of religious freedom with thanks to God for their deliverance. That is the Thanksgiving we commemorate today.

Not a feast of conquest for a territory that did not join the Union until 1822.