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Stories from Our Flag
for Thursday, November 26, 2020
Stories from Our Flag
for Thursday, November 26, 2020
[ Image credit: "The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth" (1914) By Jennie A. Brownscombe = public domain ]
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Today's Quote from Our Flag
An excerpt from President Washington's proclamation creating the first official Thanksgiving in 1789:
... whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me
"to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks, for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country ...
[ Background image is a cropping of Washington's first T-giving proclamation - public domain image ]
An excerpt from President Washington's proclamation creating the first official Thanksgiving in 1789:
... whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me
"to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks, for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country ...
[ Background image is a cropping of Washington's first T-giving proclamation - public domain image ]
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