Thanksgiving giving thanks post

[ttwarrior1]

Post something you are thankful for. I will go first.

I would like to thank God for nothing,, thanks for nothing . I can't think of one thing i am
thankful for. Maybe I'll come up with something later.

[blackbeSSt]

Post something you are thankful for. I will go first.

I would like to thank God for nothing,, thanks for nothing . I can't think of one thing i am
thankful for. Maybe I'll come up with something later.

you're still breathing enough to post this thread. sure you don't have ANYTHING you can think of

[ttwarrior1]

see alot agree, over 70 looks and nobody seems thankful for anything

[obamaismyuncle]

I am thankful for Brock Landers plays..

[jjgold]

Thanks God for not being homeless

[firedawg]

brock

[Philavanh]

Thanks to Family.

[astrodomer]

Thanks for SBR

[TWEETS]

Thankful for a 2 year old little boy that drives me nuts.

[ttwarrior1]

[TexansFan]

I'm thankful I have a great wife, 4 awesome kids, a nice house, cars to drive, money to spend, and a secure job.

[itchypickle]

I am thankful for Brock as well....he made me $500 this weekend...with NO work except seeing who he was on and picked the opposite.

Northwestern......

[Christina33]

Im thankful to be alive

[doublej95]

Thankful to have a good paying job with the state.

[thadchr]

Thanks for 3 football games on Thursday so I don't have to talk to my extended family the whole day...

[McBa1n]

Thanks God for not being homeless

I second this.
And thanks to SBR for keeping betting a fun hobby.

[jnickell100]

Thankful for Brock Thats hilarious, i suppose i am too.....Thanks Brock.

[Jankar]

Cash only )

[ttwarrior1]

[chilidog]

Yes, of course i'm going to celebrate our traditional thanksgiving holiday, even though it's true history is rather dismal....

Most of us associate the holiday with happy Pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast. And that did happen - once.

The story began in 1614 when a band of English explorers sailed home to England with a ship full of Patuxet Indians bound for slavery. They left behind smallpox which virtually wiped out those who had escaped. By the time the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts Bay they found only one living Patuxet Indian, a man named Squanto who had survived slavery in England and knew their language. He taught them to grow corn and to fish, and negotiated a peace treaty between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Nation. At the end of their first year, the Pilgrims held a great feast honoring Squanto and the Wampanoags.

But as word spread in England about the paradise to be found in the new world, religious zealots called Puritans began arriving by the boat load. Finding no fences around the land, they considered it to be in the public domain. Joined by other British settlers, they seized land, capturing strong young Natives for slaves and killing the rest. But the Pequot Nation had not agreed to the peace treaty Squanto had negotiated and they fought back. The Pequot War was one of the bloodiest Indian wars ever fought.

In 1637 near present day Groton, Connecticut, over 700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe had gathered for their annual Green Corn Festival which is our Thanksgiving celebration. In the predawn hours the sleeping Indians were surrounded by English and Dutch mercenaries who ordered them to come outside. Those who came out were shot or clubbed to death while the terrified women and children who huddled inside the longhouse were burned alive. The next day the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared "A Day Of Thanksgiving" because 700 unarmed men, women and children had been murdered.

Cheered by their "victory", the brave colonists and their Indian allies attacked village after village. Women and children over 14 were sold into slavery while the rest were murdered. Boats loaded with a many as 500 slaves regularly left the ports of New England. Bounties were paid for Indian scalps to encourage as many deaths as possible.

Following an especially successful raid against the Pequot in what is now Stamford, Connecticut, the churches announced a second day of "thanksgiving" to celebrate victory over the heathen savages. During the feasting, the hacked off heads of Natives were kicked through the streets like soccer balls. Even the friendly Wampanoag did not escape the madness. Their chief was beheaded, and his head impaled on a pole in Plymouth, Massachusetts -- where it remained on display for 24 years.

The killings became more and more frenzied, with days of thanksgiving feasts being held after each successful massacre. George Washington finally suggested that only one day of Thanksgiving per year be set aside instead of celebrating each and every massacre. Later Abraham Lincoln decreed Thanksgiving Day to be a legal national holiday during the Civil War -- on the same day he ordered troops to march against the starving Sioux in Minnesota.

This story doesn't have quite the same fuzzy feelings associated with it as the one where the Indians and Pilgrims are all sitting down together at the big feast. But we need to learn our true history so it won't ever be repeated. Next Thanksgiving, when you gather with your loved ones to Thank God for all your blessings, think about those people who only wanted to live their lives and raise their families. They, also took time out to say "thank you" to Creator for all their blessings.

[stealthyburrito]

alotta people thankful for brock this year.

he has made many people's thanksgiving brighter with his fades.

[Lumpy81]

thankful for SBR and its points

[xBreatheout]

Thanks to God even though I haven't been going to church for awhile. God I promise I'll go sometime this week.

[brooks85]

Im thankful Obama can only run 2 terms.


They had the show about the true thanksgiving on the history channel recently. Dont trust whitey, mm mm dont do it