Thanksgiving

[rustycoinUT]

I know that some of you will be heading to your various destinations soon for the Thanksgiving Holiday and I just wanted to say Be carefull in your travels and HAPPY thanksgiving!!!


Thanksgiving is a time when your suposed to give thanks. I feel that this has been a good year even though it has been rittled with various injuries and mishaps.

I am very thankfull for all the new friends that i have met here at Treasure Quest and this is the best darn site on the web.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

rustycoinUT

[rustycoinUT]

Abe Lincolns Thanksgiving Proclamation

The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful years and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the Source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they can not fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God.



In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict, while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.



Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the field of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than theretofore. Population has steadily increased notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.



No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.



It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union. In testimony wherof I have herunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

rustycoinUT

[raw-war-digger]

Hoping You and Yours a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks for allowing me to become a member of the TQ Forum! It's the Best Forum on the Net!

Giving Thanks, Roger

[NB Digger]

HAPPY THANKGIVING to all here at the forum and your families!!! Giving thanks to being able to find some of the past that makes this Country so great to live in!
Travis

[warsawdaddy]

Happy thanksgiving!


Pumpkin Pie - animated Flash ecard by Jacquie Lawson

[boomer]

The Thanks are for Thursday. The Giving is for the rest of the year.

[weebee33]

same to you and the rest of you have a great thanksgiving.

[JohnWPA]

All.....everyone have a blessed Thanksgiving and especially for our men and women in all branches of the military....we have lots to be Thankful for!!!!

God bless
John

[hoser]

All I can say is that I totally agree with what everyone has said here. Have a wonderful, safe holiday. Don't eat too much turkey, it WILL make you sleepy, and take away some good hunting time.

[PAPPY]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL OF OUR FAMILY HERE AT TREASUREQUEST....We are Thankful for each and everyone of you and wish all of you the best in everything you do....PAPPY & GREG