Thanksgiving
We have now reached once again the unique holiday of Thanksgiving. Very few countries celebrate a thanksgiving holiday of any type. Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated in Canada , the United States , some of the Caribbean islands, and Liberia . It began as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Similarly named festival holidays occur in Germany and Japan . In the last few years we have witnessed less notice of the Thanksgiving Day holiday. It appears we recognize Halloween and then move to Christmas, leaving Thanksgiving out in the cold. Thanksgiving by it’s very name as you know is giving of thanks. Are we as a people thankful? I must admit that the vast majority of people are not thankful or they don’t appear to be. It has been suggested that Thanksgiving isn’t as popular because it doesn’t generate near the income for retailers that Christmas produces. I imagine this is true from that aspect