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Last year I posted pics of Center Hill Lake's Burgess Falls. This year, I'll look around...

There's a few (!) peoples out there who would transmorgify this holiday into some kind of racial blame game...

Seattle public schools want a side of political correctness served on your Thanksgiving table

Washington state's largest school district sent letters to teachers and other employees suggesting Thanksgiving should be "a time of mourning" for its Native American students.

The reply, from Native American Daryl Williams of the Tulalip Tribes...

Before the period of bitter and violent relationships between natives and their culturally European counterparts, they worked together to survive, he said.

"The spirit of Thanksgiving, of people working together to help each other, is the spirit I think that needs to grow in this country, because this country has gotten very divisive," he said.

Indeed. There's much to be thankful for, and few people seem to want to be thankful for anything, in these troubled days.

This, from Chris Byrne, seems to sum up exactly what I'd say (if Chris hadn't said it already...)

For our families and loved ones; who comfort us, support us, and guide us.

For our freedoms, liberties, rights, privileges, responsibilities, and duties as free men.

For our honor, and our souls.

For those who lay their lives down to protect them all.

Let us give thanks; for life would be nothing without them.

Thanks, Chris, for the best I've seen written to date.