FReeper Canteen ~ Happy Thanksgiving 2012!! ~ 22 November 2012

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

~ Happy Thanksgiving 2012 ~

GOD BLESS AND WATCH OVER THEM, WHEREVER THEY SERVE.

 

 

 

Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation

Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863

By the President of the United States of America.

A Proclamation.

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People.

I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning/afternoon/evening/night Troops, wherever you are.

Thank you for doing your part to help keep all of us free and safe.

Thanks, unique, for the pastries.

Coffee is always on........

How about a cupcake?

Cookies?

Veggies?

Sandwich?

[E.G.C.]

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad from the Calame Family House. Thanks for your service to our country.

((HUGS))Good morning, Kathy. Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

It's 2F at my house. Happy Thanksgiving, JJ.

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning, LUV W. Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[Kathy in Alaska]

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you, E...((HUGS))...don’t forget a bit of turkey for Bo.

[Kathy in Alaska]

God bless and keep safe our troops worldwide.

Good night.

Statler Brothers ~ How Great Thou Art

[RaceBannon]

“...No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do the
refore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens...” -—Abraham Lincoln, 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation

[onedoug]

Happy Thanksgiving to All who take its meaning, and especially to All of our Armed Forces yet afield.

And God Bless You and Yours, Kathy in Alaska.

[Texas Eagle]

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone at and on FreeRepublic.com.

Remember to ask a special blessing for those serving around the world to keep this Republic free when you say Grace over today's feast.

[fatima]

Blessed Thanksgiving,since I don’t have a ping list thank you to all who sent best wishes.We have around 16 people coming over around 2 and then they want to play football.This year all the men have injuries so it will be all the girls.This should be good:)((((Hugs))))

[luvie]

Happy
Thanksgiving
Sis!
((((hugs))))

[luvie]

Happy
Thanksgiving
Sandy and family!!
((((hugs))))

[luvie]

Happy
Thanksgiving
Dolly!
((((hugs))))

[Publius]

Glad you enjoyed. It’s a lot of fun, especially the exploding cigar.

[oldteen]

[Publius]

Always happy to oblige. Luv liked it, and she knows how to waller in the music.

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning, Oldteen. Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!

[Publius]

As a classical pianist and music fanatic, I'll tell you my favorite Charles Ives story.

Ives eperimented a lot with dissonance and atonality, which he regarded as masculine. Beautiful melodies were something he relegated to the feminine. He always referred to Sergei Rachmaninov as Rach-not-man-enough.

During the Thirties, Ives liked going to concerts conducted by Nicholas Slonimsky that featured "modern" classical music, full of dissonance. (I met Slonimsky in 1988, accompanied by his stunning 18 year old red-headed great-granddaughter, at a Los Angeles Philharmonic concert conducted by Pierre Boulez and dedicated to the moderns.) During the intermission of this Slonimsky concert in New York, a man sitting behind Ives complained to his wife that he didn't like this music because it didn't have any melodies he could hum-m-m-m-m-m. Charlie turned to the man behind him and hissed, "You goddam sissy!"

I think Ayn Rand used Ives as a model for composer Richard Halley in Atlas Shruged.

[SandRat]

Happy Tannksgiving
LUV W and familt!!
((((hugs))))