For those of you in American have a happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. Besides having turkey for dinner, what are the other qurky stuff that you celebrate Thanksgiving with?

The day starts with the morning newspaper and an editorial repeating the story of the Pilgrims and their first thanksgiving. In today's paper much was made of the fact that they were all starving when they first arrived, because they were a commune. After they turned to capitalism they were saved."The great lesson of Plymouth's early years is that the key to prosperity is private property and a free market"Next, you venture out into the cold to watch the high school football game, exchanging pleasantries with your neighbours. You then return home to watch the professionals play while the turkey is prepared.At long last you have the turkey, served with every imaginable root vegetable and followed by pie.

Thanksgiving is a time when knowledge and wisdom, both of cooking methods and other things, is transmitted from grandparents to grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren. Among the interesting things I have learned, seeing both my grandmothers in the last few days, is that Chryslers were fancy cars once upon a time.I was driving one of my grandmothers around when, in the midst of marveling over EZ-Pass and El Paso cogeneration technology, she inquired casually of my car, "Is this a Ford?" When I responded that no, it was a Chrysler, she practically jumped out of her seat. "Where'd you get the money to buy a Chrysler!?"MP

Listening to Alice's Restaurant also peculiar to Thanksgiving in this part of the country.

Let's not forget the Thanksgiving Day NFL football games and pumpkin pie!

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate aportion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS -- Abraham Lincoln