Posted on 11/22/2020 9:09:09 AM PST by simpson96
We are marking a great American anniversary this month. In November 1620 a battered old ship called the Mayflower arrived in the waters off Cape Cod in what is now the state of Massachusetts. The passengers aboard the Mayflower were our nation’s first founders — or, as Daniel Webster called them, “Our Pilgrim Fathers.”
Webster delivered a speech to honor these Pilgrims on the 200th anniversary of the Mayflower’s arrival. Calvin Coolidge, then-governor of Massachusetts and president-elect, delivered an address on the 300th anniversary.
Regrettably, we haven’t heard much about this year’s anniversary because the Pilgrims have fallen out of fashion in elite circles. Just this week, The New York Times food section published an article that called the Pilgrim story, including the First Thanksgiving, a “myth” and a “caricature.” In place of these so-called “myths,” the liberal newspaper seeks to substitute its own, claiming the history of our nation is an unbroken tale of conflict, oppression and misery.
But that’s a lie about our country and its founders. No matter what the revisionist historians at the Times cook up, the truth about the Pilgrims is more remarkable than any story or holiday special. This Thanksgiving, it’s worth reflecting on why we celebrate the Pilgrims and their living legacy for our nation.
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One of the genealogy sites say over 35 millon people.
Because of pilgrims were “white racists”.
And how much have you heard about the assassination of JFK this time around?
Maybe the reporters simply don’t know much.
P.S. The 1620 folk believed that God exists. This is not allowed.
Hub and I were talking this morning about how we haven’t heard nary a word about the assassination....the left is too busy making an alternate history for the ignorant, low IQ peons to remember real history!
Interesting link.
William Bradford is my 12th great grandfather!
Then you are a MayFlower Blue Blood
Congratulations. You can join that snobby elite crowd ;-)
And not just any ole blue blood.
But the Governor of Plymouth Colony
oh and more importantly, you are related to the Playboy Mansion guy ...lolol
I never looked at it that way, but when I found out that Clint Eastwood was also a descendant, I wondered how we might be related. :-) Upon some deeper research my younger sister did, she found that there were other Mayflower descendants in our family tree. I bet there are millions in our country today of those first settlers.
There was a Celebration planned for Plymouth, MA- a giant celebration. A larger Parade then normal was planned. Multiple dinners and shows.
However, it was a casualty of Covid. The Celebration was cancelled in July.
Personally I think the Pilgrims get too much attention.
It’s Ok to mention but there is a lot of misinformation about the MA settlement. Including that thanksgiving was common all the way through our early history, but there was no official or traditional capitalized annual “TG” due to Pilgrims until Lincoln declared it so.
I’d like more people to realize the first permanent English settlement in NA was in Virginia.
Yup, and frankly I have to wonder how gullible these people are.
It’s like all these people who claim to have ancestors coming into Ellis Island. Again, as if that is the pinnacle of Americanism. Never mind it didn’t open until 1892, and there are hundreds of ports into which immigrants came, not just NYC region.
Maybe this would interest you:
https://patriotpost.us/pages/284-the-history-and-legacy-of-our-national-thanksgiving
Why!..... Because the leftist democrat agenda is the destruction of America!!
Too busy right now to teach you English. Get back to me later.
I don’t recall celebrating 399, 398, 397 anniversaries either. I don’t think out of the blue anniversaries are necessary. Ok so I visited Plymouth Rock. What a waste of time. Lol.
Be careful.
The religious freedom notion is not exactly correct. They came here for THEIR religious freedom, which included the freedom to shut down or ban anyone who had a different belief system. They knew that a majority of those who left Europe on the Mayflower were also Puritans, but others were also fleeing Europe, and that is why the Mayflower Compact allowed the majority to dictate the practices of the community.
ML/NJ
Cool! My ancestors arrived 18 years later, in August of 1638, upstarts!
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