Recently I have noticed that this country has forgotten that a certain holiday exists. I was angered at first by this, but then I realized that this was nothing more than the average person being average and just acting the way that the average person does.
See this holiday "Thanksgiving" is a "national holiday". It requires a heart, a mind, a faith and a subtext of some patriotic feeling, which I realize now in this country, is too much to ask for from the average person. This is a country that the average person wants to throw away individual freedom because they wish to shirk on individual responsibility. This is a country now where we want the government to "give us" hand outs, "level a playing field", and "get even with others". This is now a country where people feel that "freedom of" means "freedom from" and so instead of openness and choice being the words of the day we continue to move towards a politically correct and washed society with "fall breaks", "moments of silence", "spring holiday", "fall festivals" and "winter holidays". These of course have replaced the "according to the average person" close minded names such "Thanksgiving break", "Prayer in School", "Easter Holiday", "Halloween", and of course "Christmas break".
Well, I will tell you one thing on this day of Thanksgiving I have not lost the spirit, and so I am going to tell you right now what I am thankful for and why. I am thankful for the average person, because they have allowed me to realize just how far this country has fallen. I am thankful for my independence and freedoms because I am allowed to speak out and say what I feel. I am thankful for the men and women who fight overseas so that we here in this country can celebrate this country and what it means. I am thankful for my faith and family who even though at times set limitations on what I can or cannot do, support me unconditionally and love me for who I am. I am thankful for those that had the idea of putting together a country where there is a freedom of choice, and then helped make some of the more difficult choices. But most of all I am thankful for all of my friends, co-workers, countrymen (sorry but countryperson is too damn politically correct for me), countrywomen. Because even though we might disagree, we can have a debate, voice our opinions and not have to fight a war or injure each other to increase knowledge.
However at the end of all this I will say one more thing. Next year, if the Christmas music and setups go up in the stores before the Thanksgiving holiday has passed, I think we as a people need to remind those out there that are leading these corporations that if anyone has a reason to be "Thankful" it is them, and glossing over the one holiday that can't be commercialized so much that the meaning goes away only shows them to be the shallow, self centered, out sourcing, modern day slave drivers that they truly are. It is time to have a heart, and use your heart and stores and places of power to say "Thanks".
It really isn't that hard.
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