11/24/08 Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is just a couple of days away and a lot of us are wondering just what to be thankful for this year. At first glance the list of things to be thankful for may appear quite short, what with the Wall Street collapse, the housing and employment slump, and the rise and fall of the almighty oil dollar. But in retrospect, we as Americans still have much to be thankful for. So often we take for granted the blessed fact that we live in a nation where we are awarded the most basic of human rights, such as the freedom of speech, the freedom to worship as we choose, the freedom to do, think and act as we please. Most of us cannot begin to imagine living a day where we don't have these rights, but millions of peoples around the globe would remind us of how grateful we should really be. They would tell us how we should be thankful for the ability to cast individual votes to elect a new leader for our nation. This Thanksgiving take a moment between the turkey and the pumpkin pie to truly take stock of what we as a nation truly have to be thankful for.