Thanksgiving Day Massacre

We are brought up to believe that Thanksgiving day was created because the Pilgrims and the Indians decided to have a day of peaceful feasting and from that time forward, called it Thanksgiving Day. This is what I was taught in school many moons ago and, to this day, is still being taught to my grandchildren.

Isn't it funny how history can be sugarcoated for future generations, just so they cannot see the truth in how this country actually came to be? No wonder they are so confused when it hits them in the face. How are they supposed to believe what we tell them if they are lied to from the very start?

The first Thanksgiving Day Holiday was declared in 1637 by Governor John Endicott of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in celebration to thank God for their "victory" the day before in the slaughter of 700 Native American men, women and children while they were celebrating their own religious thanksgiving called the Green Corn Dance.

While the whole village was was inside the main lodge singing, dancing, feasting and telling stories, they were surrounded and then told to come out. As the first of them came out of the lodge, they were shot. Those that remained inside were burned alive.

Throughout the early history, there were tribes and settlers that did coexist, with the natives helping out the settlers during their first harsh winters and then teaching them about the indigeous plantlife. The Cherokee even adopted some of the European ways by living in houses and wearing their clothes. None of these, however, were Pilgrims or Puritins. There were many Quakers that coexisted with the Cherokee and other tribes.

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Today...I feel we celebrate Thanksgiving Day the right way...family and friends joining together in harmony...no matter who they are, or where they came from. I just wish they would stop teaching half-truths (and sometimes outright lies) to our children when it comes to the history of this land of ours.

Nuff said...Happy Thanksgiving.

In The Beginning

In the beginning there was a tale. This tale could be anything. It could be something that that is the figment of someone's imagination...or based on fact. The problem is, some people have a habit of mixing fact with fiction. When this happens and there is enough fact in there to convince others that all that is written or heard is true, it not only does an injustice to the story, but also to the facts included in the tale. We have seen evidence of this throughout history. In fact, history itself has been victim to this travesty.

Case in point:

The American people were convinced that Iraq was a terror to the world because it was stockpiling Weapons of Mass Destruction, or WMD's, and harboring Al Qaeda terrorists. They said that they had ironclad proof! They even went to the UN to convince those around the world that this was fact. To bad none of it was true.

To say that the Iraqi people needed to be saved from the tyrannical Saddam Hussein and his sons' regime is an understatement, but did we have to be told lies and half truths to free these people?

I say no.

I will speak on this topic again at another time. I will also be touching on subjects into the early history of this land...the difference in what we were taught in schools and what actually happened. Some may be controversial...but isn't that the way real life is?