WEDNESDAY WISDOM - THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
"In the midst of a Civil War," President Lincoln felt compelled to offer a Proclamation to the nation expressing his thoughts about why a national day of Thanksgiving is needed.
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"In the midst of a Civil War," President Lincoln felt compelled to offer a Proclamation to the nation expressing his thoughts about why a national day of Thanksgiving is needed.
#armyhistory #USArmy #TRADOC #Thanksgiving
Like some of his predecessors, this was done in a time of war as a way to express gratitude for our forces' victories and for the blessings of the American people.
This proclamation in 1863 began the official annual holiday of Thanksgiving we celebrate today. It reads, in part
This proclamation in 1863 began the official annual holiday of Thanksgiving we celebrate today. It reads, in part
"The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies... these bounties...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...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, tranquillity, and union.
Done at the city of Washington, this 3d day of October, A. D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth." -President Abraham Lincoln, November 1863
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