Hey everybody! Thanksgiving is coming up and I'm very excited. Of course, there's the feast but it's also a special day on which we all get together and celebrate the circumstances that afford us this free and comfortable lifestyle to which we have all grown so accustomed.
So this year, invite everyone you love to come over to your place. Gather around the table. Join hands. Pray, if you're the religious sorts. However you do it give thanks for the thing that allowed us to be us. Was it Columbus? No. Was it the corn and beans thing? I think not.
I wouldn't waste any precious thanks on those things. Instead, let's remember how it really happened and let that remind us of who we really are. We're the people who figured out how to make blankets into a weapon of mass destruction because winning a war with bullets, cannons, superior infrastructure, and trick beads wasn't going fast enough.
This Thanksgiving, instead of saying "Happy Thanksgiving," why not something that rings a little more true:
"They never knew what hit them."
