"Thanksgiving: A Holyday Forged in War" Topic
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| Tango01 | 11 Apr 2025 4:54 p.m. PST |
"When the Second Continental Congress issued the Thanksgiving proclamation containing this passage in 1777, it did so in the name of a young nation still bitterly engaged in its fight for independence. With it, a national holiday was born—although formal adoption as a national holiday would come later, during another difficult war. And while harvest celebrations had preceded this proclamation, and new traditions have been added to the way we celebrate the holiday in the two and a half centuries since, that proclamation's expression of gratitude for American forces' battlefield successes and prayers for further good fortune signaled the beginning of a long relationship between Thanksgiving and war—a relationship that continued through the War of 1812 and the Civil War, all the way to our post-9/11 wars…"
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