Fence Post.(News)(Letter to the Editor)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) | November 18, 2001 | Copyright

Thanksgiving and our vision of the future

There is a holiday approaching whose significance is more and more overlooked. It shows just how wrong bin Laden and his ilk of religious fanatics are in the way they describe The United States to their followers and friends.

I think that at this time in our history it is important that we put aside gift shopping and focus on this day.

Thanksgiving was established by Abraham Lincoln while we where in the midst of bloodiest war in our history, a war to secure freedom for all.

It is the formal ...

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