I am thankful for Mark Alexander and the Patriot Post team.

Mark, hope you have a blessed and happy Thanksgiving! I give thanks every day for the blessing of being an American and deeply appreciate you and your staff for all you do to help keep the fire of Freedom burning. Your work has inspired me to be a better person and to work hard to maintain our Constitutional Rule of Law and Essential Liberty.

May God Bless you,your family, and all who work with you to bring us the Patriot Post!

Happy Thanksgiving ... Stay Safe!

Q.) For what are you thankful?

A.) The sacrifice that God the Father offers us in His Son Jesus Christ who redeemed us from eternal death if we only accept and believe.

Of all my many blessings, I am most thankful that God is in control and I am secure in the salvation that Jesus purchased for me.

Thanks be to God and my excellent, loving Sunday School teacher who taught "God first, you second, me third". It takes you through everything that life can dish out.

I am thankful to have lived 78 years in a country that allowed me to be a good/profitable/happy as I want to be as long as I don't encroach on others. I thank GOD Himself for providing this great land for us.

I am also thankful for those who are working diligently to help us SAVE the country and glad that I have the opportunity to support them with my limited funds.

I am thankful to my God that I survived the horrible

experiences of World War II and came home to my dear

family and friends. I give thanks every day for my wife and five children, and many grandchildren (14)and great grandchildren (15) and for being allowed to survive to a distant age (88) in good health. I

pray constantly for our deployed youth in harm's way. May they tolerate the lonley days and nights of

distance from their loved ones.

I am so thankful for my wonderful wife and daughters, a loving extended family, honest and hard working business partners and a loyal, productive group of employees. And of course, all my good friends. May God bless all this Thanksgiving.

I am thankful for The Patriot Post and the men and women who work at sending its message out across our land.

I am thankful for the men and women in our armed forces, who serve in harm's way to protect those of us here at home.

And, I am thankful for those righteous men and women who work in our government and who follow the precepts of the US Constituion as they perform their duties. I am especially thankful for the many employees of the Veterans Administration who work on behalf of those who have served our country.

May God bless America!

Thank you Mark for your very meaningful words. May you, your family, and Patriot Post staff have a blessed and enjoyable Thanksgiving!

I am truely grateful for so many things that it is nearly impossible to list here. Primarily I'm grateful for my Christianity and the sacrifices made for me by the Lord. After that everything is inconsequential, except that somewhere near the top of that list should be a country like America and elsewhere my conservative nature which unfortunately for me came late in my life.

I am thankful for the fellowship of other Christians and especially for those who aren't afraid to speak the truth. Jesus spoke the truth and many sought to kill him for it. All that I have He has provided.

This Thanksgiving,I am thankful for LIFE.To live,and have served,in the greatest country,in the world.

I am thankful for God, country, family and my Patriot Post buds. Have a blessed Thanksgiving everyone!

I am thankfull for all the men and women that defend our rights to enjoy freedom. I am also thankfull for all the people who are fighting for smaller goverment and common sense to our legal and political future.

I am thankful, that with the help of my wife and family, I could write and publish my first book, 'Civil War Northern Virginia 1861,' where I strive to give equal justice to both sides in that terrible conflict. They were all Americans! Omnia Pro Dei Gloria!

Thanksgiving Prayer

Robert A. Hall

www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com

Heavenly Father, Lord God of Hosts, we ask Your blessing on this food and on our family and friends about to partake of it. We thank You for a country where each person is allowed to seek You in his or her own way, free of a state-imposed theocracy which works to the benefit of the theocrats and against the people’s liberties. We thank You for Your bounty, ever aware that there are so many people throughout the world who live under systems of oligarchy, tyranny and statism who thus suffer from hunger, privation and a lack of freedom. We ask that You put charity in our hearts to help the less fortunate of our own volition, and not through coercion.

We thank You for the foresight of the founders of this great Republic, who gave us a free-market, capitalist system where property rights are protected, allowing the accumulation of wealth, which has given tens of millions of Your people Freedom from Want since it was establish out of the smoke and suffering of battle. We ask Your protection and care for our free economy and our free society that future generations may share in Your bounty and blessings.

Father, we seek Your blessings on our troops and our veterans, those young people who give all, often even their lives, to protect the freedoms You have bestowed on us, from those who make a perversion of God, a catechism of power and a religion of the state. Return our guardians safe to their families, comfort the wounded and, when they must sacrifice all, take them into Your Grace for eternity. They are truly the one percent, who shame their contemporaries who want to receive without toil from the efforts of others. We thank You for sending them to protect us and to serve as an example of the better angels of our nature.

We know, Father, that our people and our country have not been perfect. Nor have we who petition you on this day of Thanksgiving been without sin and flaws. We ask Your blessing and guidance on those who would make our nation better and freer and more prosperous and to make us better people. We ask that You turn Your face against those who would destroy freedom and prosperity, whether they disguise their lust for power as being in Your name or the name of “social justice” and secular government. Put up Your hand as a shield against those who would enslave Your people to government to toil for those who traded power for unearned largess.

We ask, Father, that You preserve this great Republic and its free institutions, including the freedom for people to keep what they earn by their toil and by taking the risks that advance prosperity, free from the fear of confiscation by thugs on the street or thugs in government. We ask this in Your Name, not for ourselves, who have already enjoyed wonderful lives in this blessed country, but for our children, our grandchildren and all future children, that they may enjoy the blessings of liberty and Freedom from Want that we believe are gifts from You and thus the rightful inheritance of Your people.

Amen.

*****

Robert A. Hall is the author of “The Coming Collapse of the American Republic”

(All royalties go to a charity to help wounded veterans) For a free PDF of the book, write tartanmarine(at)gmail.com

"Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law."

It struck me that the rule of law is mentioned here...I never saw that before. We should confirm our liberty in LAW (not feelings or opinions).

Proclamation 106 - Thanksgiving Day, 1863 October 3, 1863

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

The year that is drawing toward 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 can not 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 theater of military conflict, while that theater 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 defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax 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 battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness 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, 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 3rd day of October, A. D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

As I read your words, it reminded me of what I was taught in Sunday School as a child. Real Joy comes from putting JESUS OTHERS YOU in your life in that order. At 83 years of age, I can attest to the fact that this DOES bring JOY, and PEACE, in our own lives, as well as the lives of the recipients.

Mark - On top of my thanks for my loving and devoted wife and sons, I am most thankful that I was fortunate enough to be born in this Great country, which GOD Almighty has blessed for us. And for the Sacrifice that his only Son Our Lord made for us in order to be able to return to HIM. Although I have faithfully served my country actively in the both Army and Marines for 36 plus years I must thank you and your fantastic staff for all you have given the rest of us - HOPE in the future of this nation! Semper Fi

The Indians (Native Americans) shared their food with the Christians only to be murdered and have their land taken from them by the very Christians they saved. The Indians have no reason to celebrate Thanks Giving.

First I would like to wish all the readers and editors of the Patriot Post a Happy Thanksgiving.

I for one am very thankful that I am able to even celebrate Thanksgiving. The way christians and patriots are cut down in the United States they may end up taking this great day away from us. I have my health, food on the table, a job and most of all a loving family and friends.

Thank you for the reminder of just how thankful we all should be for the blessings we receive on a daily basis--God Bless America and those that serve this nation without tought of personal gain or political position but only with love of God and Country.

I am thankful to our Lord that we, as a nation have beaten back evil forces that wanted to control our lives over the years. I am thankful for those who defend our freedoms and liberties. I am thankful for a wonderful and caring family who support me in my lifelong quest to protect and defend our Constitution. My parents were my heroes. Everyone loved them, God bless their souls. May they rest in eternal peace with God.I praise the name of Jesus our saviour to God. Amen

Religion/ spiritualism IS a mental sickness and ALL who believe in ANY Religion/ spiritualism ARE mentally sick, delusional, psychotic!

Christians are psychotic murders.

I am so thankful for my beautiful children, my providential marriage, for the Patriot Post, Dennis Prager, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News and all the conservative media that counter the incessant, progressive drivel. Mostly, I am thankful for the Lord and His Word which lights our path. God bless and keep America and restore her.

I believe that the United States is the true Garden of Eden and am thankful that I have been born as one of its' citizens. I am also thankful that I had the honor and priviledge to defend her for 24 years in her military. I am thankful for the love and support of the Lord and my family. I am truely thankful that God has forgiven my sins and accepted my love.

Thank you for your beautiful email, reminding us of

the true meaning of Thanksgiving, and of all the blessings God has bestowed upon us.

I pray that those many of us who dearly love our great country, will pledge to each do all he or she can to return our country to its former glory.

We must obey our Constitution. We must forge peace

through strength. We must demand that our government

spend a great deal less than it takes in. We must

make a concerted, serious effort to defend our bor-

ders, and I could go on and on.

This Thanksgiving, let's vow to make this country as good for our children as it was for us, always

remembering that tyranny can be less than a decade

away, if we don't guard against it.

I would like to add one more thing to GDC comment.

One of the things that makes me mad is that the colonist came to this country to get away from religious persecution, yet when they came over to this country they insisted that the Native American’s change their way of prayer to the creator to Christianity. That to me of just plain wrong. I am a Christian but I much rather follow the way the Native Americans honor the creator than I do my own religion. They have ALWAYS thanked God for everything they have and if it wasn’t for the Native Americans none of the colonists would have survived.

I am VERY thankful for my ten cats!

May God richly bless you and keep you safe as you stay true to His calling for your life!

May His wisdom and mercy guide you, and may He flood your life with His love!

May His hand guide you in your mission, and protect you and your family, covering you with His precious blood and placing a hedge of thorns round about to protect you from the attacks of the evil one!

Thank you for blessing us as you faithfully serve Him!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Frank

Amen!

This was the best Alexander Essay ever!!!Have printed it so that I may read and re-read it when the future looks bleak. No matter what, we, as Americans, always have many blessings for which to be thankful.

I am so thankful for my God who loves me and cares for me, for my family, for my country, and in a particular way for the Patriot Post, especially this issue that talks about the history of Thanksgiving and Beautiful America. Thank you so much.

I am thankful for my family; they give my life purpose, without them my life would have no meaning. Their happiness is my happiness; everything I do, I do for them! God has blessed me.

Alex: A personal note; I've had the privilege of being to Tn on a few occasions. It is a beautiful state, a gorgeous state. You are blessed for living in a beautiful country. I've served with men from TN. I didn't see it then but I do now. T

We may not agree on some issues but if we have God in the drivers seat, who can stand against us. Keep the faith and never loose it.here love for GOD and country is 2nd to none.

RE: GDC, sometimes you are correct but never lump everyone into the same category.

I am thankful for all of our troops down range, who if they have turkey tomorrow, shall have it in processed MRE form, all while serving as a speed bump and decoy target while our nation determines whether it has the will to fight.

I am thankful for my wife and children and job, but most of all I am thankful for the life my Creator has given me.

I am thankful for my life; that I am an American, that I proudly and lovingly served my country in the USAF for 23 years. That God blessed me with a wonderful son, great friends, and a faith that no one can destroy. God bless America and Happy Thanksgiving to all.

I thank and praise our Lord and Savior. For his Salvation and keeping power, and living in a country where I am free to worship and serve Him. Also for the salvation of so many of my friends and family and the opportunity of the remainder to come to Him as well.

I am thankful that the good Lord has allowed me to survive for my 71 years of life and for my loving wife and my entire family.

I am a little doubtful on how things will be after the government gets done taking my Navy retirement to pay for my Free health care I was promised during my 20 years of service. Living on S/S and my retirement will not surfice if I end up paying for TFL AND Tricare Standard (my wife is only 57) so I will have to pay for both,if they get their way. It will take over a month of my retirement therefore I see bankruptcy in my future.

Even with what might come, I am still thankful for what we have. We will still have our love for each other and our 8 living children (1 dec.), 23 grand children and 5 great grand children.

I am eternally thankful that Yahweh God the Father has blessed me with all of the spiritual blessings in the Heavenly places in Christ Jesus and meets my every need through His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. I learned about these blessings in the USA because of the sacrifices of Patriots - I am thankful!

I am thankful for all of the blessings bestowed on my wife and in selling our home in Alabama and purchasing our new home in North Carolina. At each step of move, we know that the hand of God was present to open doors and make the transition move like clockwork. Without Him we are nothing, and deserve nothing. He blesses us much than we deserve!

I am thankful that my Mom taught me to think: "Myself Third"...God first, others second and myself third. Mom lived to be 95 and lived her life accordingly. She has been gone for 15 years now and I thank God every day for her teachings.

I am grateful that I have been given the opportunity to be grateful.

Dear GDC I would rather have my delusions, as you put it, rather than your hate and anger. Be grateful that a loving God doesn't strike you down.

I'm so grateful to be an AMERICAN and to have your organization to be there for us & the wonderful troops protecting us.

We will prevail even with the crazies out there trying to destroy our constitution & country.

Expressing our Gratitude is important to our world.

What better thing could I ever say , than THANK YOU?

Grateful for opportunity to honor the Patriot Post!

A WAR CASUALTY’S CHALLENGE TO AMERICANS!

11:15 pm, 10/16/2006, when compiling a Military Honor Roll for a Veterans’ Day Memorial Service, thoughts came as from one who gave “the last full measure of devotion” in defense of Freedom’s Cause.

Grieve not for me, I gave my all to answer Freedom’s duty call;

I shielded home and loved ones’ life from battle’s din and bloody strife.

I learned that freedom is not free; there is a price for liberty…

Eternally vigilant all must stay to keep encroaching wolves away,

Some robed in clothing of a sheep, deceiving those inclined to sleep.

And watchmen look the other way, neglecting there to watch and pray.

I gave my life for Worthy Cause, to do again I would not pause,

To stay the tide of slav’ry’s flow. To nowhere else can free men go;

In all the earth there is no place – no shelter for the human race –

No bolstered fortress to defend if in defeat this War should end.

So rise, good people, take your place, stand up for right, and by God’s grace

You’ll stem the tide, extend the Light; press back the dark of evil’s night!

© 10/22/2006, by Roberta N. Tuthill (1923-) TX-born double DAR qualified patriot. Sharable intact with credit line. Req. permission to reproduce for sale. Dedicated to Navy Seal Marc Alan Lee, Iraq, 2006.

www.Speak4Truth.com www.franktuthill.wordpress.com www.Voice4Freedom.com www.bertatut.wordpress.com

“All that is necessary for the forces of evil to triumph is for enough good men and women) to do nothing.” -- Attributed to Edmund Burke 1729-97)

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THOMAS JEFFERSON QUOTES & timely warning-challenge:

"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall

be allowed to govern himself, or be ruled by a small elite." --Restated by Ronald Wilson Reagan

"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution, so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."

Long deleted from history, has Thomas Jefferson’s warning come true? Has it resurfaced in time to repair those broken chains and restrain the legalized criminal elements of our current government? --Roberta N. Tuthill (1923-) TX-born, double DAR-qualified & Civil War descended patriot.

I come from the old school of thought. I love my America,and am thankful for those who fought so valiantly to establish the freedom that we enjoy today. Praise be to the great and loving ALMIGHTY GOD who has blessed us so bountifully and wonderfully. It is so sad the we as a nation have turned aside from that GREAT GOD and are now beginning to reap what we have sown. May GOD have mercy on us.

I am grateful to a Gracious God that I was born in the USA and that our military members sacrifice so much for us. I am grateful for the free speech that we enjoy and for the high standard of living that we have the choice and opportunity to achieve. I am grateful for the spirit of togetherness that emerges when it really counts. I am grateful for the ability to travel where we want. I am grateful for all the folks that help keep us free, and the Internet where we can meet more easily and make it more difficult for tyrants to take over. May a Gracious God continue to bless us, and may we continue to deserve that blessing!

After 58 years of marriage and the last 39 years of being caregiver to her as a result of a stroke, I am Thankful that she is now free of pain and struggles and is now in the presence of her Lord Jesus! I am thankful that the Lord gave me the strength and and patience to do what was needed.

I am thankful that Jesus Christ died for my sins and rose from the dead. I am thankful for my two sons, my health and that I live in a free country that my Father is purging of the ungodliness. Thank God Jesus will return one day. I am thankful for the men and women who fight for our freedom. Also for the fine people who work for the betterment of this nation

I enjoyed your history & legacy of Thanksgiving. The 1st by a president of the United States of America was not however by George Washington but by John Hanson. His proclamation of October 11, 1782 designated November 28, 1782 as a day of Thanksgiving.

I'm grateful for the existence of wisdom and the inheritance of it. It is this inheritance that we witness, manifested in the likes of Mark Alexander, and many others in the conservative ranks. This wisdom serves as our spotlight, to reveal Liberalism as it plots against morality, from the darkness of shadows. This wisdom serves as a scale of justice, with which we can measure the bankruptcy of Liberal ideas. Without wisdom, ignorance would rule, Liberalism would prevail, and destitution would result.

And I'm grateful for people like Mark and his staff, and any and all other conservative protagonists. They are our modern day Paul Reveres, sounding the warning alarm about the immoral liberal subterfuge that threatens the nation on a daily basis. They are our champions, our front line generals, leading us into battle, to save our nation, and our souls. Give us the strength to join their ranks and fight.

I'm thankful I was born in American. I'm thankful I've never known hunger, homelessness, or oppressive despair. I'm thankful for my family, my home, my job, my personal relationship with Jesus Christ. I'm thankful for the hope that springs eternal deep within my soul. I'm thankful God provided me with a born-again spouse who loves me, pampers me, and provides for me. I am thankful for my Godly heritage. I'm thankful for the legacy left me by generations of Christians before me and the courage of American soldiers who have, are, and will fight to keep us safe. I'm thankful that when things look the darkest that I know in whom I have believed, and the hope of glory abides in our Lord Jesus Christ.

At age 72, I continue to be driven by a Loretta Young TV show I saw as a teenager.

Lifes priorities:

#1. God #2. Country #3. Community

#4. Family #5. Self

1.I am thankful for the prettiest, most intelligent, most loving young girl I was smart enough to marry almost 45 years ago.

2.I am thankful for my children and grandchildren.

3.I am thankful for a warm home, filled with love.

4.I am thankful to have bountiful food.

5.I am thankful for a decent job that pays a decent wage.

6.I am thankful for my freedom and for those who continue to defend it.

7.I am thankful for my extended family, my church family and many friends.

8.I am thankful for the ability and means to travel anywhere.

9.I am thankful for my health and well being.

10.But, most of all, I am thankful to God who has provided it all in abundance.

I am thankful for God's gracious gift of salvation and his Word that through study and application gives us meaning, purpose and definition for our lives.

I an thankful for my wife who is likeminded in Christ so that we may encourage one another in our growth as well as setbacks.

I am thankful to be living in a free nation with a history in freedom second to none and for the warriors who protect us

I am thankful for the Word of God that tells us that a nation remains free because of the believers in the land who continue to "grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ". If the believers fail the nation losese it's prosperity. This insight helps me to focus on doing whats right and not being distraught on the bad that I see (and hear. "As goes the believer, so goes the nation"

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Gratitude is paramount to a happy life. Willingness to place others before self is an indication of humility. Service and sacrifice on behalf of others is virtuous. Only these will produce a society capable of understanding, preserving, and living with liberty. May the God who created this republic, preserve its character and give strength to her advocates. Blessings of gratitude and thanksgiving to all.

I am thankful for my wondrous wife, ,without whom I am nothing. I am thankful for my children, grown strong and straight. I am thankful for my Grandchildren, who's promise is so bright. I am thankful for our home, the woods around us, ,their smell on a day after the rain. I am thankful for the deer my wife & I watch each day, and the squirrels, those thieving little pirates who steal my walnuts. Most of all, I am thankful for being born into this, the greatest nation on Earth, and having been able to raise and teach my children here.

How beautifully and wonderfully written. We should all

thank the good Lord for men like you. Thank you for

sharing that with us, it certainly reminds us to be

thankful. God bless.

Thankful for a wife of 33 years and 8 children,all working and supporting their families, and my 19 grandchildren. I can still work at age 70 at jobs no one wants to take. It is all well managed income for mission support and building funds. God is good.

(I hope Tennessee will be hospitable in Jan. I will be in Murfresboro for a grandchilds wedding).

Please see "Red Yellow Green" at www.uqpub.com. Please help me to promote constitutionally derivwd budget priorities. Thank you, Mike The Patriot

Well .... not really knowing what I was going to write, I read JB Hoffman's comment about the loving, selfless care he provided for his dear wife of 58 years. There are allot of great comments here, but, I think I will give thanks, for having been privileged to read his. Can't stop the tears from flowing. JB ... I wish you the very best this Thanksgiving . And ... as always, a stunning essay by Mark.

The rhetorical question, "Tell us for what you are thankful" is too inclusive to remember all that He has blessed upon me. The Lord's biggest blessing is something we all have received, the gift of His only Begotten Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Our Savior's sacrifice assures us of an afterlife, if we can only endure to the end, LIVING His gospel.

I am blessed to live in a nation that allows me and mine to enjoy our freedom of choice. To cut short the answer, all else is simple, my family, friends and liberty. The Patriot Post helps us retain our liberty along with our troops around the world.

Mark, what a useful "maxim" to share with us - "Live third person, serving God first, others second and ourselves third" - to thwart selfishness. I intend to remind myself of your words daily - "It is in that service that we lift the veil of vanity and rediscover God's purpose for our lives." I gladly sent my support for your Year-End Campaign.

RE: GDC One native American to another. Allow me to quote you:

The Indians (Native Americans) shared their food with the Christians only to be murdered and have their land taken from them by the very Christians they saved. The Indians have no reason to celebrate Thanks Giving.

I am with you but like as I've told clan (Shining Shield Clan) that was then, this is now. You don't like Christians, I can't belittle you but we all need to learn from history and not lump all of them into one category. REMEMBER OUR 10 C0MMANDMENTS. For the rest of you, it would behoove you to follow them for they can also be found in the Bible.

Treat the Earth and all that dwell therein with respect

Remain close to the Great Spirit

Show great respect for your fellow beings

Work together for the benefit of all Mankind

Give assistance and kindness wherever needed

Do what you know to be right

Look after the well-being of Mind and Body

Dedicate a share of your efforts to the greater Good

Be truthful and honest at all times

Take full responsibility for your actions

I am thankful for Charles, my wonderful caregiver. If he were not able to take care of me I would be “imprisoned in a nursing home” I have Cerebral Palsy and in 1999 I broke my right ankle. Have always been active as an advocate for the civil and legal rights of the disAbled. God has entrusted me with a truly wonderful ministry. I enjoy a plethora of blessings!!

Family, health, and a government that can be changed every four years.

Thanks for the words to America the Beautiful. But if you want a truly thanksgiving prayer for our Nation, please see the last verse of the Star Spangled Banner. We need all the prayers we can get, and this verse is certainly a thanksgiving prayer to God, not the imperative demand that God bless America:

"O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved home and the war's desolation!

Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."

I am so thankful to be born in the USA in a small town in Illinois known as Chicago, raised In Oak Park and received my education at Bradley University and have spent the rest of my life in Peoria, Illinois. I was married for 37 years to a wonderful lady named Barbara. We adopted our daughter Debi in 1969 when whe was 3 days old and she led me to you Lord in 1984. Why I strayed, I will never know, but I did and lost a beautiful wife because of it. I am now miserable and alone but for you Lord, I remain alive. I pray for wisdom to now why I survive. I want to be a witness for you Lord. I know I think, my time is short on this earth but I pray for many who continue to spread your word. I include the Patrioit Post on my list. Thank you Lord for allm you do. I know you have forgiven me. Bob

Thank you and thank God that you providing this service to us. May God continue to Bless you and Peace be with you.

Praise God from whom ALL blessings flow. II Chronicles 7:14 -- read it and live it. Happy Thanksgiving to all Patriots.

Thanks to God for our beautiful country, my wonderful wife, faithful dog, family and friends.

To often we take for granted the everyday things that we are with which we are blessed.

First and foremost I’m so thankful for the saving grace of our Lord and Savior JESUS CHRIST, I’m thankful for my FAMILY and Friends, I’m thankful for all the bountiful blessing the LORD has bestowed on my family and myself. I’m thankful that I was honored to be born an AMERICAN, I’m thankful for the Patriot who sacrificed and made it possible for me to enjoy the blessing we take for granted. I’m thankful for the honor and privilege of serving my nation and our people. I’m thankful for you and your outstanding staff and the great work that you do.

I pray that through your efforts that America will wake up and realize what a wonderful country we are blessed to be citizens of and I fervently pray that we as a nation will return to the tenants and principals upon which our founding fathers founded this nation

I pray that GOD will bless and substance you in your effort to educate and spread the word of FREEDOM,

Thank you.....

I am Thanksful that there is a God and he listens to my prayers. I am thanksful for a husband who has taken over some of jobs at the house while I have gone through surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. I am humbly grateful for the many people who has prayed for me while going through this process. Thank you God!

I am thankful for EVERY blessing that has been bestowed on me, my family and friends. But most of all I am very thankful for the men & women serving in our armed forces;it is only through their courage & sacrifice that we can celebrate this wonderful day. May God bless them & keep them--Amen.

I am thankful first and foremost for all that God has blessed me with, even the tribulations, for my family and for the great nation I live in and its defenders.

I am thankful that God has called me and my family to be His; that he has placed me at a time and in a place that was established upon His principles and that I can freely worship Him and seek to do His will without threat of persecution; that I am free to go into all nations, telling them of Jesus Christ, knowing that I can return to America; that He has given me the wherewithall to see much of this great nation and many parts of the world, and stand amazed at His creation; and that He has given me the health and ambition to pursue my dreams and aspirations and to work not only for myself, but for my family, my friends, my church, my city, my state, my country, and my God.

we thank god for everything he has given me & mine always this includes too much to list so as you can tell it is beyond listing we hope for no more oboma & cohorts asap , freedom, good government, stoppiong the murder of the most innocence & of the elderly, staying within the constitution, no more homeless, lonelyness, cold, hungry esp children, wars, etc & all peace, love etc god bless america happy thanksgiving GODBLESS AMERICA

We who avidly read these essays are earnestly gratful for the abiding freedom, God-infused threads that are always woven throughout these missives. Many thanks. Keep doing the work the rest of us would like to do but don't.

Here is what I am grateful for :

Salvation Through the Blood of Jesus

Family

Freedom

Our Veterans (who keep us free)

My health

Happy Thanksgiving All!

I am thankful for my Lord who will never leave me nor forsake me! I am thankful for my husband surviving emergency surgery and recovering to full health! I am thankful for wonderful family and friends. I am thankful for the USA and all the brave men and women who have served and continue to serve us so faithfully.

I will sing unto the Lord for He has dealt bountifully with me!

I am truly thankful that, to date, God has not treated this nation as He did Sodom and Gomorrah. Judge Robert Bork's book "Slouching Towards Gomorrah" details an alarming look at our direction. I am thankful for a loving God, who gives us grace and mercy in spite of our sins. I am very grateful to Patriot Post and other patriots who are attempting to bring this nation to its senses and back to God. Most especially I am thankful for those who are laying down their lives for us every day through the military. I'm just grateful that things are as good as they are and not as bad as they could be.

Our national anthem should be changed to America the Beautiful.

Well, there you go!

Just proves that, like Lincoln, Ol'

George was just one more gullible sucker.......

Just getting a chance to read your essay. I had a wonderful blessed Thanksgiving with family and friends. God has been good to us. What a contrast your essay, full of thanks to God, and Mr Obama's Thankgiving message this year!! His seemed to be another campaign speech and he didn't mention God one time! He said the very first Thanksgiving was a 'celebration of community'... I guess I could expect no less from a community organizer!

The first Thanksgiving proclamation issued by an American President since the days of the Founders was on 4 Sept 1862. Some time later, the northern leader emulated the practice.

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Richmond, VA

4 Sept 1862

On the very day on which our forces were led to victory on the Plains of Manassas, in Virginia, the same Almighty arm assisted us to overcome our enemies at Richmond, in Kentucky. Thus, at one and the same time, have two great hostile armies been stricken down, and the wicked designs of their armies been set at naught.

In such circumstances, it is meet and right that, as a people, we should bow down in adoring thankfulness to that gracious God who has been our bulwark and defense, and to offer unto him the tribute of thanksgiving and praise. In his hand is the issue of all events, and to him should we, in an especial manner, ascribe the honor of this great deliverance.

Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, do issue this, my proclamation, setting apart Thursday, the 18th day of September inst., as a day of prayer and thanksgiving to Almighty God for the great mercies vouchsafed to our people, and more especially for the triumph of our arms at Richmond and Manassas;

and I do hereby invite the people of the Confederate States to meet on that day at their respective places of public worship, and to unite in rendering thanks and praise to God for these great mercies, and to implore Him to conduct our country safely through the perils which surround us, to the final attainment of the blessings of peace and security.

Given under my hand and the seal of the Confederate States, at Richmond, this fourth day of

September, A.D.1862.

JEFFERSON DAVISPr

This email page is so full of important, happy,heartwarming, needy, and excellent material that it will take me until next Thanksgiving Day to fully process it all....thank you very much for such a power packed package.....A continuing Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours....Marikay

This is as fine a tribute to Christmas and the American way of life I have ever read. It touches on everything important to us all and really leaves nothing out. Without freedom ,which come from God, nothing else would matter. Without courage and the Grace of God we would have been the best nation in the world. Many have died for freesom so we could be free and many more would die for freedom rather than live under the yoke of tyranny. The Lord has see that we have the materials and the brainpower to keep our country. Do we have the courage?

Happy Thanksgiveing because of the Lord providing so much for us. Our cups truely runneth over.

Chick

Thank God for this country in spite of the fact that a bunch of idiots elected a Muslim as its president.

I am thankful that I am a child of God, with Jesus as my Lord and Savior and thus will live with Him forever in His Heaven. And, thankful that I live in a country where I am free to worship Him wherever and whenever I choose without thought of reprisal or punishment. I still live in a country where I am free to be whatever I choose, to come and go as I please, to be successful in my chosen occupation, speak out against my government without danger of prison or death, read what books I choose, spend my earnings as I choose, be as successful as I am willing to work to be. I fervently hope that my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren will have the same freedom!!

Lord, thank You for all that I have and all that I don't have. Thank You for the small things as well as the big things and thank You for giving me the gift of faith which allows me to trust in You. Let me be an instrument of Your will in this world and may we always understand that it is Your will which is to be done, not ours. Help us to live our lives according to Your plan and give us the courage and desire to help out our brothers and sisters as you have demanded us to do. And lastly, thank You for our free will, so that our love for You is not that of slaves, but rather of children who know and understand our Father in Heaven.