I have two Thanksgiving memories that stood out for me.
When I was 8 years old, I helped my mom after school the day before Thanksgiving to make pumpkin pie for my dad's side for Thanksgiving. I remembered my grand parents and my aunts like the pie.
The other memory is when I was 22, My parents had me cook the Thanksgiving turkey. I made it and the Turkey wasn't dry.
Back in 1989 my parents let me order the WWF Survivor series on Pay-per-view Thanksgiving night. I had my friends over the watch the event. Wonderful memories
Something about turkeys and lions who play football. I don't really get it myself.
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OK, so I looked, and it's all about religion and harvest and stuff, but... why is it always on a Thursday?
It was established as a national holiday in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln, whom said it shall fall on the fourth Thursday of every November.
Here is a bit more from President Lincoln's prolomation of Thanksgiving becoming a federal holiday
"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 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, tranquility 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 United States the eighty-eighth."
Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln, October 3, 1863.[10]
Well, what I remember most about Thanksgiving was of course the food and visiting my Grandparents' house and it was always awkward having to sit at the "kids table" and try to make conversation with my "step cousins." It always seemed weird for me and my brother to be caught in the middle of that.
My parents always made us have our Christmas lists due on Thanksgiving night. Me and my brother used to look through all those great toy / video game ads that are packed in the newspaper that day. We would stay up late and eat left overs as we decided on what to get. And often my parents would hit the malls the following morning looking for the stuff on our list.
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