“May we all unite in rendering unto God our sincere and humble thanks—
• For His kind care and protection of the people of this country,
• For the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have enjoyed,
• For the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness,
• For the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge, and in general for all the great and various favors which He hath been pleased to confer upon us.
And may we also unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him—
• To pardon our national and other transgressions,
• To enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually,
• To render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed,
• To protect and guide all nations and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord,
• To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science,
And generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.”
George Washington, Thanksgiving Proclamation, 3 October 1789
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Well, at least it worked for around two centuries.
In what is now a tradition, we present for Thanksgiving the death prayer of Old Lodge Skins, which comes at the close of Little Big Man by Thomas Berger (who himself died in 2014).
Old Lodge Skins was Little Big Man’s adoptive grandfather. The scene takes place shortly after the Battle of Little Big Horn, which the Cheyenne called the Battle at the Greasy Grass. This being the Current Year, I have to remind the reader this is when General Custer and his small army was wiped out by the Indians, the last real victory they were to have in the Plains wars.
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Believing in government….his first mistake (but then he was part of the Federalist problem that helped set the stage for the destruction of this country with the Constitution, etc.).
Post that at FB/Twatter/YT and get suspended.
Happy Thanksgiving TBP!
Dear administrator,
thank you for the passage from George Washington. It goes a long way in excusing his naïveté and being led astray by he who was shot too late.
alexander hamilton, noteworthy ‘First Traitor’, stooge of the Rothschilds.
‘Old Lodge skins’ in the comments was just icing on the cake.
Sincerely, a human