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Happy Thanksgiving!

And the Pilgrims gave thanks to God... photo courtesy Photobucket     Wishing many blessings for you and yours this Thanksgiving

On Thanksgiving the Pilgrims Gave Thanks to God

***See below for authors to visit next week on The Blog Tour.   HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! My daughterā€™s first grade year in school, the children drew images illustrating Thanksgiving. The administration put them on the walls for an open house. That night turkeys, Indians and Pilgrims in many colors lined the halls. On the tour we stopped at our daughterā€™s offering and told her how good it wasā€” of course. She peered at me with wide brown eyes. ā€œMy friend had to take down her picture and do it over.ā€ ā€œWhy?ā€ I asked. ā€œHere it is.ā€ Our daughter pointed to a drawing with a boat and some stick people standing around it. ā€œShe wrote on it the first time?ā€ ā€œDid she write over the picture?ā€ I asked. ā€œNo, she said the Pilgrims gave thanks to God, and thatā€™s not allowed.ā€ I was stunned. ā€œWhatā€™s not allowed?ā€ ā€œTo put up there that the Pilgrims thanked God.ā€ History was re-written behind the walls of those halls that Thanksgiving. Each Thanksgiving I remember the incident and think o...