Happy Thanksgiving!

[Jess]

I'm English so I don't have thanksgiving. I thought it was the 25th - silly me!

Still, I'm thankful for my friends and my family all being well. <3

Happy Thanksgiving to thee americans.

[Luara]

Im thankful that I have a life....
(SPOILER) and all of that

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

Hope your turkey and canned yams were worth the 120 millions Indians you killed for them.

If you mean the indigenous people of North America, then do not use Indian. Indians are from India. Native Americans is a more proper term or Aboriginal peoples.

Well I already had Thanksgiving, but I am grateful for my life, and that I was born in place where I had the chance. I understand that a lot of people suffer in the world, and I am lucky to be born in a rich country. I am thankful for everyone in my life. Also I was thankful that I was with family on Thanksgiving.

[fire_of_avalon]

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=...rder=0&thold=0 . I got a idea lets now celebrate the Jewish holocaust :rolleyes2 , we are alreadying celebrating the Indian holocaust.

Oh please, it's not Andrew Jackson Day, it's Thanksgiving.

EDIT: I am thankful to be alive and relatively happy, and I'm also thankful that I'm able to BE thankful.

[FFGuevara]

Oh please, it's not Andrew Jackson Day, it's Thanksgiving.

Yeah i know thats what its about. They celebrated the succesful massacure of the native's.

[Shauna]

I have no idea what this is all about! Yay!

I am thankful... for everything? I dunno what I'm thankful for.

[fire_of_avalon]

If you think that's what we're celebrating, then I suggest you do some reading on United States History. I, however, am not going to argue with you because you choose to see a holiday celebrating the good things Americans have in life in a negative light. Just so you're aware, the "first Thanksgiving" was celebrated far before the ethnic cleansing of the Native Americans.

I'm not defending what my ancestors did to my other ancestors. I'm just letting you know that's not what we celebrate.

[rubah]

Yeah i know thats what its about. They celebrated the succesful massacure of the native's.

As someone that's 1/64th native american, I'm sure I can say this with magnanimity. . .

Abraham Lincoln was the one that instituted the holiday of Thanksgiving in the United States.

It was not a celebration of 'slaughtering indians' it was a call to restore "peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union."

Every single Thanksgiving lesson I've had in elementary school focused on the spirit of friendship the native americans and pilgrims had back in the 1600s.

The Trail of Tears was a horrible thing, and then when they were continued to be pushed westward, it didn't make it better in any way, but the government has been trying to make some (maybe petty, but better than nothing) amends, most notably in the form of college money for those of close cherokee ancestry (Sadly I'm a couple of generations late) but if the entire world held grudges we'd all be dead.

So let's be glad that we have abilities to forgive and to forget. Right now, let's be glad in one another and in this day that the Lord has made

[Mr. Kyusaku]

I am thankful for Kingdom Hearts, movies, and my friends Sapphiresa,Glaurian,Willy,ff7 + ff10 gurl 100,fire of avalon,perola (i think), and all my others!

[ff7+ff10 gurl 100]

Awww thanks Mr.Kyasaku.
Im thankful for Mr.Kyasaku,Sapphiresea,Summoner Yuna,Alive-Man,ffxfreak93, and everyone else at EoFF that im friends with and eveyon else here too.
Even though i dont know you all yet.But i will soon

[Mr. Kyusaku]

You are welcome! :^)

[FFGuevara]

If you think that's what we're celebrating, then I suggest you do some reading on United States History. I, however, am not going to argue with you because you choose to see a holiday celebrating the good things Americans have in life in a negative light. Just so you're aware, the "first Thanksgiving" was celebrated far before the ethnic cleansing of the Native Americans.

I'm not defending what my ancestors did to my other ancestors. I'm just letting you know that's not what we celebrate.

I like the fact that people will pick and choose what they see in American history as legitimate. Okay, the holiday was only possible on the condition that all the good things we have in the life was at the expense of Native Americans. Its not choosing to see it in a negative light, its choosing to see it in historical context.

Moreover, your correct about the first thanksgiving was celebrated before any active movement of genocide. But it begs the question if the first thanksgiving was before any ethnic cleansing, where did the occupiers use for food, shelter and productive growth: Native American land.

Finally, what is it that we celebrate that we call “thanksgiving” honestly? What is to give thanks for, and to whom?

What your saying would be akin to going,

"Oh, you see, when I celebrate the invasion of Poland, I'm not celebrating the holocaust! That happened after the Nazis unlawfully marched into Poland! I'm celebrating that parade they held after the annexation!"

[Yamaneko]

Ok, you celebrate it how you want to and we'll celebrate it how we want to. Either way this is not the thread to discuss such things in.

I hope you all have a good Thanksgiving.

[Chzn8r]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING All at EoFF Get stuffed today!