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If for nothing else, the nation can be thankful that it was New England who finally scythed the Bills from the playoff picture. With the "Super" Bowl looking ready for syndication after so many bad reruns, at least the slaughtered lamb might look and taste a little different this year...
"I was kind of thankful when modern medicine couldn't do anything this time," he says. "I don't want any more cold, sterile hospitals, or needles or impersonal nurses and technicians. It's just so nice that I don't have to have that ever again."
The first Thanksgiving Proclamation, issued by President Washington, asserts that "it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God." The U.S., however, had special reasons to be thankful: "for the signal and manifold mercies . . . in the course and conclusion of the late war"; "for the...
Thanksgiving has lost a lot of its original and special meaning through the years. We are so programmed into what we should say or feel or what we should be thankful for.
How many of our parents made us take music lessons? Many of us endured piano lessons and some were even forced to take tuba or clarinet lessons. (Now that's something most of us should be thankful for avoiding.)