thanksgiving: Every Day is for Thanksgiving - 11/25/16 08:23 PM
 
I am grateful every day.  When I think about the first Thanksgiving I realize that it was because of immigrants who fled Europe because of religious persecution. They were poor, cold, starving, and depended on the kindness and generosity of the first Americans. Because of them we are here.  Because of the gritty lives that they endured, we built a nation. 
 
Yesterday, one of the Ancestry sites invited me to check on my ancestors.  I found the 
grandfather that I never knew.  He sailed from Prussia in the 1880s to New York,
one of 11 children. They made their way to Minnesota and plowed … (6 comments)