A Thanksgiving Thanks

I can’t believe Thanksgiving is here already. It seems this year went by fast. As we celebrate Thanksgiving lets not forget what the celebration is about. Sure the turkey and few days off to spend with the family are great, but that’s just not what the holiday is about. Let’s not forget the soldiers we have in foreign countries fighting so we can celebrate this holiday. No matter how you feel about this war, if them idiots that attacked us had it their way we wouldn’t have all the freedoms we have now.

Let us also not forget the brave soldiers that have died and paid the ultimate sacrifice so we can continue to enjoy this great nation, and it is a great nation. I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else but the United States of America, and I’m glad I live in Texas. I’ve included the National Anthem in here because it’s the national anthem. Every time I hear it played I can’t help but get a few tears in my eyes.

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?

And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,

Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,

What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,

As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, I

n full glory reflected now shines on the stream:

'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore

That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion

A home and a country should leave us no more?

Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep's pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!

Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!


The last verse is the one that really gets me choked up. I can’t help but think about all the soldiers of past who have fought battles so this nation could continue. I had an uncle that passed away a few years ago who fought in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. My father fought in Korea, and another Uncle fought in Vietnam.

As Americans we do have a lot to be thankful for. Other citizens from other countries recognize the fact that the United States is a great place to live. I don’t see anyone wanting to move to Mexico and change their citizenship, but I do see Mexicans wanting to move to the United States. I don’t see anyone wanting to move to Canada and change their citizenship, unless you were a draft dodger hippy of the 60’s like the Bill Clinton crowd. I don’t see anyone wanting to move to France and change their citizenship. Not even that lying idiot Alec Baldwin who said he would move, is that crazy enough to give up his citizenship.

As Americans we also have the right to freedom of speech. Even if you’re like Barbara Streisand, Rosie Odonnell, Sean Penn, and some of them idiots in Hollywood. They have the right to show us how dumb they are and I have the right to write about it.

As Americans we also have the right to worship the LORD in our own way.

As Americans we also have the right to own guns, even though most Democrat politicians don’t want us to.

THANK YOU LORD for this great nation that you founded. Thank you veterans for your sacrifice despite all the ingrates that are in this nation.