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From: mary gair <>
Subject: Re: [WarBrides] Give thanks!
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:35:40 -0700
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Subject: [WarBrides] Give thanks!


> Happy Thanksgiving to all our American sisters. We have come a long way.
> I don't do the turkey dinner anymore due to age and lack of wanting to.
> Enough's enough!
> The largest dinner I ever gave was 27 people. We had children seated in
> a circle on the floor around a table-cloth, they loved it.
> These are the children (now grown up and married) who do the
> Thanksgiving dinners today.
> Our Canadian Thanksgiving was in October. The dinner was given by our
> eldest daughter who bakes a ham as well as a turkey and makes 3 pies:
> pumpkin, apple and chocolate. Her daughters (our grands) provide the
> mashed potatoes, brussells sprouts (ugh!) corn, carrots etc. Are we
> living in the land of plenty, or what?
> We did not celebrate Thanksgiving in England as it is observed in North
> America. All I can remember was going to church and seeing the wheat
> sheaves and other blessings of the harvest decorating the church around
> the altar. I still miss "Harvest Home" as it was called.
> Happy Thanksgiving and God's blessings to all!
> Hazel in Alberta, Canada
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>Hello Hazel,
Yes, we do have a lot to be thankful for in this
land of plenty. It is the same in our family, the children give the
Thanksgiving dinner now although the whole family cannot always get
together. Before the war when I lived in England I can remember taking food
and-or flowers to church and laying them on the altar, then after the
service was over we took them to the hospital oor the poor house as it was
called then.
A Happy Thanksgiving to our American War-Brides.
Regards Mary


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