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[WallShadow]

A question re: Thanksgiving post TDM

Ok, so America got mangled on or around Thanksgiving Day. What then became of the Thanksgiving Holiday in Post-Kaboom American culture

[Targan]

Ok, so America got mangled on or around Thanksgiving Day. What then became of the Thanksgiving Holiday in Post-Kaboom American culture

No doubt it would still be a holiday, just morphed into a day of memorial and remembrance.

[WallShadow]

Perhaps Targan, but I was curious specifically about the next 5-10 years immediately following the Massacre. Would anyone be celebrating, or avoiding all mention, or would some hardheaded patriots celebrate it in spite.

[kato13]

Like Columbus day and Christmas, I don't consider Thanksgiving to be a "patriotic" holiday. The actions celebrated were not done by Americans so they are really outside of what would be considered US-centric.

The 4th, Memorial day, and Veterans Day, would be the patriotic holidays IMO. I guess when I see flags flown it seems patriotic.

[rcaf_777]

Like Columbus day and Christmas, I don't consider Thanksgiving to be a "patriotic" holiday.

Only if youre looking at it as non-American or non-Canadian (Canada has it too)

In the US it originated as a harvest festival. Thanksgiving has been celebrated nationally on and off since 1789, after a proclamation by George Washington.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/28/thanksgiving-proclamation_n_4078958.html

It has been celebrated as a federal holiday every year since 1863, when, during the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens," to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November.

http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/thanks.htm

If you read the proclamation it becomes a very patriotic statement, Many Americans believe that Modern Sweet Potato Pie was invented for Thanksgiving after the US Civil War, since it called for Southern US Sweet Potato and Northern Maple Syrup.

In Canada we Celebrate this holiday to, as it was brought to Canada after the US War of Independence, however its time and what we were being thankful for has differ over the year. It was till 1879 that is became a Federal Holiday, and it was not till 1957 that is was finally moved to the second Monday in October. The ordinal US time of November conflicted with Remembrance Day.