From: Devin Standard

Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 11:54 AM
To: GG et al
Cc: rest

Subject: FW: Happy Thanksgiving from my family and George Washington!

 
Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
 
I am forwarding this email which is both timely and timeless. Thank God we are American!
 
Quickly, Good Sam on Sundays, The wife & kids(1dt karate tourney this Saturday), volunteering with the SD Naval
Recruiting Command, serving as a Director for the anti-gang charity called Any Body Can(God, Country & Boxing for at risk
kids), international consulting with VCI, and acting as the agent for Dan “The Beast” Severn are some of my many
 blessings(Quasark is a challenge). I wish you all well. And May God Bless all the men and women of our armed forces and
see them through until the job is done.
 
The following is from Bruce Eberle and George Washington:
 
Dear Friends,
 
I wanted to take this opportunity to share a few thoughts
regarding our upcoming Thanksgiving Day celebration. It's
quite a unique American holiday. Whether we refer to the
very first celebration in Virginia or the more commonly
referred to celebration in Plymouth, it was still a
celebration of thanksgiving to God in acknowledgement of his
 
preserving the early Americans though trying and difficult
times.
 
How could you and I possibly make it through the trials and
tribulations of life without God as our lifeline? I know I
couldn't. Everyone has problems and hurdles in life, and it's
only through the grace of God that we persevere.
 
The father of our country, George Washington, issued the
first official Thanksgiving Day proclamation. I thought
perhaps you might like to share it with your family this
Thanksgiving Day. Here it is:
 
"1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation
 
Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the
providence of Almighty God --- to obey His will --- to be
grateful for His benefits --- and humbly to implore His
protection and favour: And whereas both Houses have, by
their joint committee, requested me "to recommend to the
people of the United States a DAY of PUBLIC THANKSGIVING
and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful
hearts the many and signal favours of Almighty God,
especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to
establish a form of government for their safety and
happiness:"
 
NOW THEREFORE, I do recommend and assign THURSDAY, the
TWENTY-SIXTH DAY of NOVEMBER next, to be devoted by the
people of these States, to the service of that great and
glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good
that was, that is, or that will be: That we may then all
unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks
for His kind care and protection of the people of this
country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal
and manifold mercies, and the favourable interpositions of
His Providence in the course and conclusion of the late
war; --- for the great degree of tranquility, union, and
plenty, which we have since enjoyed; --- for the peaceable
and rational manner in which we have been enabled to
establish Constitutions of Government for our safety and
happiness, and particularly the national one now lately
instituted; --- for the civil and religious Liberty with
which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and
diffusing useful knowledge; --- and, in general, for all the
great and various favours which He hath been pleased to
confer upon us.
 
And also, That we may then unite in most humbly offering our
prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of
Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other
transgressions; --- to enable us all, whether in publick or
private stations, to perform our several and relative duties
properly and punctually; to render our national government a
blessing to all the people, by constantly being a government
of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and
faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all
sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shewn
kindness unto us); and to bless them with good government,
peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of
true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among
them and us; and generally, to grant unto all mankind such a
degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.
 
GIVEN under my hand, at the city of New York, the third day
of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven
hundred and eighty-nine.
 
(signed) G. Washington"
 
 
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Devin
 
 
 
 
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