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Thanksgiving Why Turkey?

I as an American living in Warsaw, Poland am often asked: "Why a turkey?". This question put to the average American would receive a response as that is what has been eaten by the pilgrims during the first Thanksgiving has become a tradition and a beautiful story after. The idea of continuing a tradition established by those suffering in the new world gave way as they please for their first harvest is good that they celebrated with a huge turkey dinner is sentimental, but is it true? Has it Turkey pilgrims really eat for the first meal of thanksgiving? It is a question that many historians have come to wonder whether Pilgrims actually ate the bird we know today and refer to a turkey because the pilgrims called on all forms of birds wild turkey, even those who have not been what we today call a turkey.

It is strange to many and perhaps unacceptable that the pilgrims could not have eaten as Turkey has become such a symbol of this festival, but there is a possibility that they might not have. Lobster, deer perhaps no one would ever associate with Thanksgiving were probably eaten, but it is something that we can almost eliminate what could have been on the menu and it's pumpkin pie as the pilgrims were more likely to run out of flour by there.

Of course this is not really an issue of considerable importance if the pilgrims who are often called our ancestors ate what is now known and accepted that Turkey, but what is, some might say the fact that they gave thanks to God for the blessings they had received during the year. This again based on what we know today can also be challenged, not that there was ever a party, but its intent was to show gratitude to God. Yes, it is true that the pilgrims were deeply religious one way that does not allow them to wear the colors of black out also believed to hold dance, drink and music were irreligious, but because is precisely why some argue that theirs was not really a celebration of thanks. The logic of this belief that questions lies in the fact that these were deeply religious, not despite it. In those days thanking God has been so totally different, so it is today as giving thanks to God in those days especially by people deeply religious was made in the form of prayer and fasting, not as huge feasts. In the opinion of many historians of the feast of the pilgrims was in fact a harvest celebration that was something very common time and not a day to give thanks to everyone unlike the story most Americans are told in school. One reason I can see this change in history is perhaps the United States government believed that the day of thanks would be more readily celebrated then one day of harvest "in particular by those whose livelihood does not depend on agriculture.

Contrary to what some may think Thanksgiving Day was not repeated by the pilgrims year following the harvest was not as abundant It was not until two years have elapsed since the first festival that has been repeated. Curiously many historians have reasons to believe that this second feast was actually the first real "Thanksgiving Day" dinner so that's when the pilgrims had a day to give thanks for rain that ended the long project that they felt that their prayers to God have been responsible.

Another Thanksgiving Day, that took me by surprise when I learned he was that the pilgrims only held this feast twice which is the opposite of what I thought that this celebration has been repeated by them, year after year. The reality was that not many later during the Lincoln administration had "Thanksgiving" has been recognized as a holiday as it was Lincoln who took time for the "War" to make it so. For many, however, both pending in Congress making it a one could call a handful of pilgrims as they had 100 (not all members of the separatist "church of England" and most of whom are dead less than 5 years after reaching the new world) did not support having a national holiday. As for me, I can see where there was some logic but in this by saying that I do not understand that I am against this holiday that I celebrate every year, despite not having been in the States in more than 13 years.

There is another factor that I find so strange in the telling of the history behind the Thanksgiving or at least how it is said in U.S. schools and the fact that he never said that the pilgrims left England, but originally it was not go to the new world, but in the Netherlands. Holland where they stayed for over a year, but eventually left to find the path of Dutch life to be "infidels" and the fact that some of their children were Dutch instead of English as unbearable. I find it funny on the lighter side of what the clothes we associate with the pilgrims, which means that along the men wore black hats in my opinion looks like a hat Dutch witches were real as was the rest of their clothes and this is perhaps the reason why men can be held in this found on boxes of "Dutch Masters cigars.

The question of why Turkey is not the only one I hear Poland, year after year from those I mention Thanksgiving as very often they ask me to share my knowledge on which It takes place on the fourth Thursday of November instead of having a fixed date like Christmas? This question, I can not answer with certainty, but I'll try to use my imagination to what might have led the U.S. government to set the day as such.

First, they chose a Thursday that they feel more then, as she always wanted to be a weekday unlike Christmas a few years may fall on a Sunday. But some insist that 4 Thursday of November not another day, for example, Wednesday, October 3?
This new with reason as an ally I can argue that those who have chosen this day were probably looking for a day that would mark the begging of the Christmas shopping season, but not one that would be so close that it would competition with it. This 4th Thursday if we think it is ideal because it can be anywhere from 28 November at the latest or 22 at the earliest.

Another reason I can not speculate on why Thursday was chosen rather than tell us on Friday or Wednesday, is that Thanksgiving being Thursday, it is possible for stores to be closed Thursday for Thanksgiving and then use the following Friday to get ready for what would be the first Saturday of the period Christmas. The reason for this is that the day after Thanksgiving, but not an official bank holiday is seen to be less than what the schools and major stores are involved. This, in my opinion be a good technique to follow because Saturday is the day shopping and the most popular Stores want to enjoy and be ready for the first Saturday of the Christmas shopping season.

Despite these discrepancies in the tale for me personally to see things are interesting, but do not change, nor diminish what Thanksgiving has become, which is an American holiday that can be celebrated by everyone irrespective of nationality or religion. The reason I can even say a religion because that day or what day this has been transformed into a day when the Americans give us thanks for what we have, but curiously, it is no longer connected to give thanks particular person or even God.

Another factor related to Thanksgiving making it a great feast for all the secular world is the fact it is not really connected to patriotism because he does not celebrate the winning of a battle or conquest of independence. This leaving to be celebrated by anyone regardless of nationality, who wishes to eat a turkey and give thanks for that he or she has or she deems appropriate to be grateful.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!

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