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I think I might be a good idea for Rush to tell The Real Story of Thanksgiving a bit early this year!!
1 posted on 10/13/2008 9:00:36 PM PDT by truthluva
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Agreed it’s always good to know our history. Nowadays, Thanksgiving is being marginalized in some schools, the way Christmas has been for years. The politically correct denigration of Thanksgiving is due to alleged injustices committed against American Indians.

Heck, today on Columbus Day, some people have protested because Columbus didn’t have a politically correct view of the world. They want the holiday changed to “Indigenous People’s Day” as a celebration of the cultures of American Indians, Mayans and Aztecs in Mexico, Incas in Peru, etc.

Yep, in today’s world of hostility to religion, we can’t talk about the religious roots of the Mayflower Compact, or the religious views of our Founding Fathers. We can’t even call them the Founding Fathers (the PC term is “Framers” of the Constitution) because calling them fathers is somehow offensive to the N.O.W. crowd. The fact that they were all men is irrelevant to them. You can’t call the Founding Fathers and still be poltically correct.


2 posted on 10/13/2008 9:05:51 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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> And when the Pilgrims landed in New England in November, they found, according to Bradford’s detailed journal, a cold, barren, desolate wilderness. There were no friends to greet them, he wrote. There were no houses to shelter them. There were no inns where they could refresh themselves. And the sacrifice they had made for freedom was just beginning. During the first winter, half the Pilgrims — including Bradford’s own wife — died of either starvation, sickness, or exposure.

Just a taste of what the early settlers of the New World went through. Amazing courage of what true Americans were really like: adventurous, independent and don’t give a FF.

Nowadays, kids would go nuts without their PSP for 15 minutes.


3 posted on 10/13/2008 9:11:47 PM PDT by max americana
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To: truthluva
"Now, aside from this program, have you heard this before?"

I was lucky in that I attended the private high school, the Flint School, aboard the tall ships teQuest and TeVega. The true meaning of Thanksgiving was drilled in our heads and I share it every year. Here is a LINK to the newsletter from my old school explaining what Rush covers. To make sure the students didn't forget the difference between the "common store house" and "free enterprise", we were made to start work on the ships extra early in the morning without any breakfast. For lunch, the galley boson came around with a checklist and a bowl of popcorn and handed out three kernels to each student, checking their name off the list. By dinner, we were all about to drop from hunger and exhaustion, but none of us will ever forget the true meaning of Thanksgiving.
5 posted on 10/13/2008 9:27:40 PM PDT by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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