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"GIVE THANKS? THANKS TO WHOM?" "YOU GIVE THANKS FOR WHAT YOU'VE GOT!"

From our family to yours - Happy Thanksgiving, 2008!
You know, for a few years now, I have quoted today's headline from Barry Levinson's memorable 1990 film, "Avalon."
The film tells the story of a middle class family, whose patriarch came to Baltimore from Eastern Europe before the First World War, and retells his story, endlessly, to younger generations of his family each Thanksgiving Day.  The movie is set primarily in the late 1940's.
Thanksgiving is a strictly American holiday (no slight to you Canadians - I know you celebrate a Day of Thanks each year as well, in October).  It's a feast day not observed in Europe or other countries.
So when grandmother Eva Kirchinsky (Joan Plowright) asks that question of her assembled family at Thanksgiving Dinner, it's here son, a thirty-something Jules (Aidan Quinn) who provides the answer -
"You give thanks for what you've got!"
For some, however, this year is an exceedingly tough one.  Jobs have been lost by the thousands - perhaps, yours, or that of one close to you.  The real estate market has taken a tumble.  It's tougher to get a loan - personal, mortgage, or business.  Gas prices have returned to earth ... more

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