Earlier today, I came across the following chart from the Pilgrim Institute, posted on a friend's social media account. It showed the various family groupings that came over on the Mayflower … and then which members of those same families made it to the first Thanksgiving in 1621. Needless to say, it puts a vastly different spin on the Thanksgiving celebration than the turkey, potatoes, and cranberry affair we view it as today.

I kept pondering this chart through the day, thinking about the many men and women who came to this country, seeking a new life, but were instead snuffed out within a matter of months, many of them likely at ages younger than my own.

Such waste reminded me of some of the things I’ve been seeing lately in the news, largely related to the various riots our country e

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