As was the case when Abraham Lincoln was president, we celebrated Thanksgiving this year amid a civil war; albeit we are fighting with weapons that serve to destroy not the physical body but the soul and spirit of America.
Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation gave thanks for the blessings of industry, the plough, our natural resources such as iron and coa…
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