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Did Your Kids Learn About the First Thanksgiving in School?

Have you checked to see if your local public school taught the students about Thanksgiving? Did they learn about the first Thanksgiving?  Did they learn what happened on the first Thanksgiving? Public schools were closed to celebrate Thanksgiving. Shouldn’t students learn about the first Thanksgiving?

Decolonizing the Decolonizers

Marxism is notoriously violent, as are its advocates, and we can trace that tendency back to Sergey Nechayev. His 1869 pamphlet titled The Revolutionary Catechism is explicit about the need to exterminate everything so that it can be replaced with Marxism.

the-first-thanksgiving Jean Leon Gerome Ferris 1912 Weirs Times

Pulpit Polity: The ‘First’ Thanksgiving! 

Most readers of Granite Grok were exposed to the traditional story of the Pilgrims and the Indians sharing a meal on Thanksgiving to God for their success and survival in the new world settlement of Plymouth Plantation.

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Thanksgiving – a Quick Rememberence that Family Matters and Advice to Young Parents

In trying to find a couple of Thanksgiving posts from the past that I wanted to post up, I stumbled upon this and thought that I’d share it again. After all, who knew that I and TMEW would have to be re-living my own admonitions below in raising the Grandson (a “GrandFamily”)?  An abstract from …

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Prayer at First Constitutional Congress Rev Peter-Michael Preble

Thanksgiving Proclamation: Continental Congress – November 1, 1777

Bumped from 11/27/2014 Forasmuch as it is the indispensable duty of all men to adore the superintending providence of Almighty God; to acknowledge with gratitude their obligation to Him for benefits received, and to implore such farther blessings as they stand in need of; and it having pleased Him in his abundant mercy not only …

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