The first Thanksgiving was held in the fall of 1621 to celebrate the Pilgrims’ first corn harvest. They called it a Harvest Festival.

President George Washington issued the first national Thanksgiving proclamation in 1789 to celebrate the end of the American Revolution.

President Abraham Lincoln established Thanksgiving as a permanent national holiday in 1863, and our American celebration of Thanksgiving has been celebrated on the fourth Thursday of each November since 1941.

These days are officially designated national occasions for giving thanks to God. These facts, although familiar to us, remain a piece of American history, they are remembered and celebrated by us on Thanksgiving Day.

This past year has been a year of change for country with government shut downs, loss of income by

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