Today is Thanksgiving. Earlier this week, President Obama issued a Presidential Proclamation (
full text) setting today as the official date for the holiday this year. The Proclamation reads in part:
Thanksgiving offers each of us the chance to count our many blessings -- the freedoms we enjoy, the time we spend with loved ones, the brave men and women who defend our Nation at home and abroad....
This Thanksgiving Day, let us ... lift each other up and recognize, in the oldest spirit of this tradition, that we rise or fall as one Nation, under God.
